Posts Tagged ‘portland’

The Bicyclists
Craftmaster Independent
DVD available online at The Bicyclists website
Overall impression: 3/10
Last night, Portland filmmaker Carl Jameson was kind enough to provide a free showing of The Bicyclists, his feature length film about characters he developed in his online series, The Bicyclist. Both the web series and the film focus on Conrad, a Wisconsin transplant [...]

Hertz, the giant car rental company, has a car sharing service, called Connect By Hertz which is expanding to new cities very quickly. For an overview, I recommend this Dave Brooks article today in World Streets. This is interesting because Hertz seems to be taking on Zipcar, the current largest carsharing service, directly.
From the article:
The [...]

Last year I visited Portland and wrote about America’s cycling nirvana. They certainly have not let up in improving their city for those on two wheels. Here are just a few cool things being done as recently reported by BikePortland.
Bike path second layer of proposed double decker bridge
When Portlanders make room for cyclists, they aren’t [...]

Review: Bicycling and the Law
by Bob Mionske, JD
“As Mr. Wells was driving north near Broadway’s intersection with West 74th Street, Miss Thomas was approaching the intersection from the opposite direction. Shortly after noon, near this intersection, something went wrong with Wells’s vehicle and their paths fatefully crossed. Wells los control of the Duryea, and it [...]

Today is the first day of Bike Month, so it is only fitting that we shoot for the moon with this cycling music video put together by Copenhagenize for the City of Copenhagen to see what is possible.

Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Colville Andersen on Vimeo.
Of course, we don’t have to look across the [...]

Mike Hoffman was kind enough to write this up about the Seattle International Bike Expo, and posted it as a comment yesterday. I really appreciate his insight so I’m promoting it to a full post. His full comments are below – what a great community!
I went to the 2009 Seattle Bike Expo. It was funny [...]

I came across a fantastic podcast the other day from the blog Portland Transport and I’ve been listening to all the episodes I can since. It’s very much like the ANC Radio show is here in Austin, except this show is ALL ABOUT BIKES! Entertaining and full of event ideas we could try here too [...]

Editor’s note: Seattle writer Paul Andrews was kind enough to catch Metrofiets at the Seattle International Bicycle Expo for us and wrote this fantastic article.
by Paul Andrews
You’re thinking about taking the plunge and ditching the car. But you wonder: How will I shop for groceries? What about the toddlers? And what if I need a [...]

Summary: A look at the growing urban bike culture in the United States and Europe, with a special emphasis on the personalities involved.
Rating: 5/5
Availability: Order it from Powell’s if you want to feel authentic. Otherwise you could go for the usual, Amazon.
“I often saw cyclists running red lights, riding the wrong direction on one-way streets, [...]

Austin cyclists are engaged and excited about what’s coming. That was the message city staff heard loud and clear last night at the bicycle plan open house held at Mellow Johnny’s.
Political campaigns and local organizers are also paying attention to the increased excitement. Representatives from the Chris Riley Austin City Council [...]