News and interesting stories from the blogs: No Getting Around It: Cycling and Religion Clash Again, Bike Snob NYC Few things are more stressful than awakening on a Monday morning to a full-blown local bike-related civic controversy. And once again, this one involves orthodox Jews and (forgive the simplistic catch-all term which is just too [...]
Posts Tagged ‘portland’
Bakfiets versus Xtracycle: What’s the best way to haul stuff on a bike?
I’ve now had my Xtracycle Free Radical Conversion of my Trek 7200 for over a month, using it to shuttle my kids as a bicycle mini-van and do grocery shopping including transporting a 20 pound bag of dog for with a week’s worth of food for my family. In that time, I also test rode [...]
From burned out to burning it up
I thought my racing season was done. In the last 9 months, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time training to qualify for and then compete in the National Age Group Triathlon. And, honestly the last 2 months, I’ve been pretty burned out. I went to Portland to compete, but I was way more excited [...]
Further thoughts on the City of Roses
This article is part of our AustinBikeBlog becomes PortlandBikeBlog series I’m writing on my recent trip to Portland and my exposure to its bike culture. Well, now that I’m back in Austin and have had a decent night’s sleep, I thought I’d follow up to my article last week about bike culture in Portland with [...]
Bike Shop Review: Clever Cycles
This article is part of our AustinBikeBlog becomes PortlandBikeBlog series I’m writing on my recent trip to Portland and my exposure to its bike culture. Look for additional articles later this week. While staying in Portland, I decided I needed to make a pilgrimage to Clever Cycles, one of the bike stores leading the move [...]
My initial thoughts on Portland bike culture
I’m writing this on an iPhone so I’ll be brief. I spent the afternoon walking around downtown Portland, and everthing about this city is set up to support cycling and encourage people to use bikes for transportation. From bike paths to the airport, to hooks and space for bikes on trains, to bike boxes and [...]
AustinBikeBlog becomes PortlandBikeBlog for the weekend
As you read this, I am on my way to Portland, Oregon to compete in some race. Honestly, I am not nearly as excited about this race as I was when I spent countless hours this spring training to qualify for it. Maybe I’m just burned out, but in the last month or so I’ve [...]
Bikes Bring Bucks into Our Economy
An economic report from Portland shows that their local cycling-related economy has a value of $90 million. Portland News 8 Also covered this in a short news segment, here. WE NEED A STUDY LIKE THIS FOR AUSTIN… BAD! Especially if it shows primary and secondary economic effects of cycling in Austin, and even better, add [...]
