BikePortland Podcast

So good to be back the the Shed. Eva and I were up to old tricks with a wide-ranging chat about everything from riding bikes naked to Portland's new WNBA team. Here's a list of most of the stuff we touched on that I jotted down while I edited this episode:

• Eva's trade show scheme
• World Naked Bike Ride (drama here, 20th anniversary photo gallery)
• Correcting the record on trains and coal
• Eva explains her preferred bike route from north Portland to Colonel Summers park
• IBR SDEIS basic findings (Official project website)
• Eva's time at Cycle Oregon Rally ride
• Park(ing) Day, why isn't it year-round?
• CCC and their financial crisis
• New path alongside Benson High School via NE Glisan?
• New WNBA team in Portland!
• Eva is in love with Philadelphia, PA.
• PDX Trophy Cup and if a Brompton would survive it.

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Learn more information about the CCC's dire financial situation in this interview with Executive Director Ruben Alvarado. Ruben was hired in July and didn't realize how bad things were until he'd taken the job. Now he's going all-in on a "Save the CCC" fundraiser and says if the storied, 30-year-old nonprofit doesn't raise $349,000 by the end of the year (and $115,000 by Oct 1st), they will be forced to shut their doors.

BikePortland Founder & Editor Jonathan Maus is the host of the interview. Episode recorded at 10:00 am on September 9th, 2024.

Also read the BikePortland story posted the morning of Monday, September 9th.

"Save the CCC" Fundraiser

CCC Financial Overview (PDF)

Don't miss all the latest banter between BikePortland founder & editor Jonathan Maus (hi, that's me!) and BikeLoud PDX board member and retired bike shop owner Eva Frazier.

Here are just some of the tangents we explored...

• Hating on planes and "freeways in the sky"... and are trains even eco-friendly?
• My trip to California and cul-de-sac life laments (and I'm leaving again on Tuesday for another family visit to Hungary).
• PBOT's hardening plan for paint-and-plastic bike lanes.
• Recap of the 2nd Annual Bike Happy Hour Show & Shine
• Eva recaps the Future Sandy bike ride along, "the perfect hypotenuse of the triangle of Portland."
• My big personal and professional news about my exciting new job.
• That weird and wonky fake PBOT sign on NE 7th.
• The 82nd Avenue project and sharing the lane with buses.
• How all our (we, the community's!) work on candidates has made transportation a big campaign issue.
• BikePortland should bring back weekly political cartoons. (Here are the old ones)
• Why I left Twitter/X and moved to Threads.
• Eva's affinity for western wear and riding in a cowboy hat.
• The problem with salty chips and our favorite bike-camping snacks.
• and more!!

Thanks for listening.

Was great having former BikePortland staffer and now Portland Mercury reporter Taylor Griggs join Eva Frazier and I (Jonathan Maus). This episode is chock full of great stuff.

Fake bike lane citations - Underdesigned bike lanes - a green ribbon bike network - riding to Troutdale for ice cream - exercise and e-bikes - portland tennis courterly - prank calls - SK Northwest and Springwater trail saga - I-5 Rose Quarter

Links we mention:

• Deflating tires in the name of climate change
• Why e-bikes don't give you "legs of steel"
• New path in Troutdale that Taylor rode
• New Biketown e-scooters
• Portland Tennis Courterly home page
• Jonathan's op-ed on street racing

Thanks for listening!

Maria Sipin joined me in the shed this week (Eva Frazier is out of town). Maria is a transportation planner and community organizer with a long and impressive resume as a volunteer and agency staffer. She's currently the campaign manager for Portland City Council D4 (W/Sellwood) candidate Mitch Green, and in the past she's been a planner at Oregon Department of Transportation, has worked at Safe Routes National Partnership, was on the Portland Clean Energy Fund Community Advisory Committee, and recently worked on the campaign to get participatory budgeting on the ballot in Portland.

We talked about all sorts of stuff, from bike valets to a renters' bill of rights to her Lectric bicycle, Bike Loud's Bike Buddy program, and much more.

Links:

• Maria Sipin on Instagram
• Bike Loud Bike Buddy Program
• Bike rack rental from Shift

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Michelle DePass wants to represent District 2, which encompasses all of north and parts of northeast Portland. She currently works for the City's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and has served on the Portland Public School board since 2019 — first as chair and currently as vice-chair.

She wants to bring her experiences fighting for racial and environmental justice and a vision of a cleaner, greener District 2 to City Hall.

In this interview we talked about her family memories growing up around the N Williams Ave and MLK Blvd corridors, her opinions on the I-5 Rose Quarter project, her time on the PBOT advisory committee for the N Williams Traffic Safety Project, and much more.

Links:

• Meeting on Williams project turns into discussion of race, gentrification - 7/21/11 BikePortland story
• Campaign Website
• DePass for Portland on Instagram

This conversation was recorded on the steps in front of the gazebo in Peninsula Park on July 15th.

Eva Frazier and I (Jonathan Maus) are back with another bit of banter from The BikePortland Shed.

Learn how Eva's Garden Bike Tour in the heat wave turned out, what I thought of Bike Play, why I'll miss all the Bike Summer rides this weekend (basketball!), what happened on City Cast PDX podcast today, why someone is really mad at Thursday Night Ride, the difference between a nice honk and a jerk honk, and much more.

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WTH did Commissioner Mapps say? Why does Jonathan always have a different coach in the Shed? How's Eva's Spanish class going and what is she doing to prevent insects from destroying her backyard cherry crop? Bleeps and Bloops and what now? What happened to that guy who was protesting BikePortland at Bike Happy Hour this past week?

You'll find the answers to all these questions at more in this episode. 🤣🤣

Links:

• Naked Biking Pioneer Terri Sue Webb
• Mapps and his blame game nonsense
• Bleeps and Bloops ride video and photos
• BikeLoud's candidate question series

Marshall Runkel is a Portland city hall veteran who has worked for three former city commissioners, most recently Commissioner Chloe Eudaly. He announced his bid for Portland mayor last week and visited the BikePortland Shed for his first in-depth interview on Friday, June 14th.

Marshall and BikePortland Founder/Editor/Publisher Jonathan Maus talked about Marshall's approach to politics, his love of riding the bus, how he rode with Critical Mass as an advisory for Commissioner Erik Sten in the early 2000s, his experience working on housing and homelessness issues, how he will use his work experience in the clean energy sector to help Portland, why he loves the Portland Trail Blazers and wants to bring a WNBA team here, and much more!

Links:

• Marshall Runkel campaign website
• Companion post on BikePortland

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In the Shed and chill with retired bike shop owner and BikeLoud PDX Board Member Eva Frazier and I — BikePortland publisher and me editor Jonathan Maus.

We had a wonderful chat and I debuted our first News Quiz. Eva shared about her cross-town box truck adventure, we talked about the big stories of the past week, Eva's ride downtown for First Thursday, we Googled Shaquille O'Neal's massive bike, dished on the bike bus, NY Gov Hochul's horrible decision on congestion pricing, and more.