Saddles - Ergon

If you need inspiration for fun and adventurous riding in our region, look no further than the Our Mother The Mountain (OMTM) email list. Since it started in 2015, the OMTM Google Group has grown to about 1,300 members and is one of the most productive, welcoming, and informative email groups in town (and I’m on a lot of them!). The folks behind OMTM share, promote and host great rides and routes. Their latest offering is the Ride of the Month: “Here’s how it works: we p...

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Looking for a new place to spread you cycling wings We’ve got four great job opportunities that just went up this week. Learn more about each one via the links below… – Retail Sales - Fat Tire Farm – Bike Mechanic, Customer Service, and Bike Sales - Metropolis Cycle Repair – Used Inventory Supervisor - Community Cycling Center – Bicycle Mechanic - The eBike Store For a complete list of available jobs, click here. Be the first to know about new job op...

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A growing body of research has proven that incomplete and dangerous transportation infrastructure in lower-income areas has a disparate negative impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Now ODOT’s own analysis proves the existence of these impacts on BIPOC Oregonians for the first time. The Oregon Department of Transportation has released a groundbreaking new technical memo titled Pedestrian Injury and Social Equity that draws a line between injury and fatality rates of non...

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The N Greeley bikeway project is tantalizingly close to being finished. About a week ago I rode a new section of the separated bike path that begins south of North Willamette Blvd. As you can see in the photos, it’s very nice. Anticipation of this new connection between the popular Willamette Boulevard neighborhood greenway and the bike lanes on North Interstate Avenue, is high. It’s not often we get 1.5 miles of uninterrupted, physically protected bike lanes on a major north-s...

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Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty was forced to go on the offensive in a press conference in order to respond to false allegations that she left the scene of a hit-and-run. The story emerged this morning from PJ Media and was later picked up by The Oregonian and other local outlets. The writer of the PJ Media story, Jeff Reynolds, is also involved with the Coalition to Save Portland, a nonprofit that formed last fall with a goal to “restore law and order, reverse defunding ...

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Senate Bill 395, also known as the Safe Routes for All bill, got its first hearing at the Oregon Legislature this morning where members of the Joint Transportation Committee heard much more support for the bill than opposition to it. But what the opposition lacked in the collective power of their voices, they made up for in the power of the organizations they spoke up for. Proposed by The Street Trust with sponsorship from Eugene-area Senator Floyd Prozanski (who was not in attendance to...

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There’s been a lot of talk in Portland in recent years about the need for transportation reform advocates to take a more intersectional, coalition-oriented approach when pushing for big changes. The NYC 25×25 campaign launched Monday by New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives looks to have set the standard by which all such efforts will be judged. It’s one of the most bold, exciting, and inclusive advocacy efforts we’ve ever seen. The aim is to ...

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