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Take the survey on Metro-area bicycing conditions
Whether you bike a little or a lot, in the summer or all year long, BTA wants to hear about your experience. Please take this survey on Portland-area bicycling conditions. Every respondent is automatically entered in a prize drawing for a one-hour massage by Andrine de la Rocha of Beaumont Health Clinic. Your input will…
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KBOO Bike Show: Bike Patrol, Filmed by Bike
Listen to the show (mp3, 12.7 MB) Officer Robert Pickett shares perspective from his experience with the Portland Police SE Precinct bike patrol. Carl and Sara talk with two filmmakers represented at the Filmed by Bike festival.
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Cheesy but Informative
Our good friend and PDOT safety guru Greg Raisman asked us to post a link to PDOT’s new video explaining how bike boxes work. [Greg is the informative driver in the video :-) ] See it here: http://media.ci.portland.or.us/onthemovesmooth/onthemovesmooth.html
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Paris Vélib’
Gordon Price has one of the best overviews I’ve seen of the Paris bikesharing/rental program in his “PriceTags” #101 (PDF, 2.8M). Let’s hope for a similar system here very soon. Speaking of bikes, I have a few spaces left ($75 each) at my table at the BTA’s “Alice in Paris” fundraiser on March 22nd. If…
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KBOO Bike Show: Bicycle Evangelism
Listen to the show (mp3, 13.05 MB) With their missionary zeal and promises of a better, fuller life, some of Portland’s bicyclists can begin to resemble evangelical Christians with their fervor and their conversion tactics. This month, Tori Bortman and Carl Larson discuss ‘bicycle evangelism’ with Bengt Halvorsen, Gregg Lavender, and Reverend Phil Sano. Callers…