Category: Bikes

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Joe Kurmaski, the Metal Cowboy

    Listen to the show (mp3, 19.6M) This month on the KBOO Bike show, Joe Kurmaski, aka the Metal Cowboy, aka Adventure Dad, will be on air with his kids to talk about their cross-country bicycle trip as a family. Joe will also talk about his plans for Camp Creative, a Portland summer camp for kids…

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: the Metal Cowboy

    Author Joe Kurmaski, also known as the Metal Cowboy, and his kids will join us in studio to talk about their experience bike touring across the country as a family. We will also discuss a Camp Creative, a new summer camp for kids that the Metal Cowboy will open next summer. 9-10AM, Wednesday, February 6th…