Bike Gallery

Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speakers: IBPI Board Members/founders Mia Birk, Principal of Alta Planning + Design, Jay Graves, owner of the Bike Gallery, and Rex Burkholder, Metro Councilor Topic: Portland is Good,...

The organization SmartTrips is holding a competition for anyone who works downtown. Email or comment in their blog with your reasons for walking, biking, busing, MAXing or carpooling (anything but driving a car alone) and you could win certificates to Hot Lips, Bike Gallery, and more.

SmartTrips also offers a commuter packet for anyone who works downtown, delivered free to your work with a gift. You can request maps, bus schedules, bike maps, and specially tailored information such as women on bikes. We ordered one and were really impressed with the information. It gathered all the materials we've meant to pick up over the years in one envelope, and came with a bar of chocolate.

Bike Gallery owner Jay Graves takes an employee (his son Simon) for a spin on a Madsen cargo bike at the kickoff event last night.(Photos © J. Maus) Last night at the Hollywood Bike Gallery store, Portlanders got their first chance to kick the tires of the new Madsen Cycles cargo bike. Jared Madsen. Jay Graves hosted the [...]

 

View from the office window?

It's November.

 

It's Portland.

 

Do you know where your rain coat is?

 

It might be a little bit damp.  It might be dark at 4:30.  But no matter the weather, it's always the right time of year to bike, walk, bus, MAX, or carpool to work. 

 

We want to know what motivates you to stick with your smart commute during the less pleasant season (also called "Portland Winter"). 

 

Is it money saved?  Exercise gained?  Aging delayed?  Traffic disdain? 

 

Send us an email at smarttripsdowntown@pdxtrans.org (or post a comment) and let us know your top reason(s).  We'll pick our favorites and compile a Top 10 list.  You can win prizes! (Hot Lips Pizza, Chocolate, Bike Gallery Gift Certificates, and more!)

 

Thanks for participating!

Get to know the Madsen SUB. The Hollywood Bike Gallery store will host a preview party to welcome the newest addition to Portland's growing cargo and utility-bike family — the Madsen Cycles Urban Utility Bicycle. My first mention of the Madsen back in September sparked quite a bit of interest. Unlike the Dutch-style cargo [...]

Joel and his wife Barb at the 2007 Cross Crusade Prom. This guest article was written by Joel Grover. Joel is a 20-year bike industry veteran and the head buyer for Bike Gallery, a locally owned shop with six locations in and around Portland. He recently attended Interbike, a large bicycle industry trade show [...]

This new cargo bike from Madsen Cycles, will be available in Portland soon. Retail price is $1,299. I've spoken to two of my roving reporters from the floor of the Interbike trade show in Las Vegas this morning. One of them is Joel Grover, the head buyer for Bike Gallery and a 20-year veteran [...]