BikePortland Podcast

Marnie Glickman thinks she has the recipe for progressive political success in Portland. Glickman is a leading candidate for City Council District 2 (North/Northeast) and met up with her Tuesday for a bike ride and an interview to learn more about what we can expect if she's elected. Glickman has lived in Portland off-and-on since 1992 when she paid $175 a month for rent on SE 28th and Steele and...

Happy Friday and Welcome back to The Shed. Retired bike shop co-owner and BikeLoud PDX Board Member Eva Frazier and I (BikePortland Publisher & Editor Jonathan Maus) had a wonderful chat and I can't wait to share it with you. Here's what we talked about: That awful bumpy section on NE Tillamook between Rodney and MLK. How I keep track of so many meetings. Why Mayor Wheeler is a PCEF superfan (...

Megan Ramey is doing so many cool things to make bicycling better in Hood River it was hard to decide on just one way to introduce her when we connected for an online interview this past Thursday. The main hat she wears is  Safe Routes to School program manager for Hood River County . But if you’ve followed her  on X  or  Instagram , you’ll know she’s up to all sorts of cool st...

Eva Frazier and I (BikePortland Publisher & Editor Jonathan Maus) are back after a one-month hiatus. Here are links to some of the stuff you'll hear about on this week's show: Joshua and his amazing worldwide bike tour - @ukodus.8 on IG Shawn Granton of Urban Adventure League Bike overnights and touring stories Bike buses in Portland PPB bike squad expanding Mitchell Point Tunnel section of Hi...

With me (BikePortland founder and publisher Jonathan Maus) being unexpectedly away from Portland for two weeks helping my dad in the hospital (he'll be fine), my In the Shed co-host Eva Frazier got antsy and decided to record a conversation with our friends Armando Luna and Shawne Martinez. This trio packs a whollop of bike fun between them and this fun chat will have you smiling and looking forwa...

This is a recording from the Places for People: A Conversation with CityNerd event that took place April 9th at the Aladdin Theater in Portland. The event was the 2024 Ann Niles Active Transportation Lecture sponsored by Portland State University Transportation Research and Education Center. PSU Professor, noted researcher and TREC Director Jennifer Dill introduces interview host Lilian Karabaic (...

Eva Frazier and I (Jonathan Maus) are back on our regular schedule. Yay! This was a really fun episode and it's the perfect listen for the weekend. There's even sound effects of sandhill cranes. Here's a taste of what we talked about: PDX Sidewalk Joy map Eva's report from her trip to Nebraska to see sandhill crane migration Bike Happy Hour Anniversary Party Eva's old commute route on Barbur from...

I met up with Portland City Council (D4) candidate Chad Lykins in Hillsdale today and we biked around southwest. In this episode you'll hear an interview-by-bike as we survey various bits of bike infrastructure and make several stops along the way. We talk about a lot more than just bike stuff! At a stop at a Safe Rest Village we talk about housing and homelessness and we talked about development...

Bend, Oregon-based nonprofit Dirty Freehub has become one of the best route resources on the web with its over 300 detailed ride guides. Its founder, Linda English talked to BikePortland founder Jonathan Maus about why she created the site over a decade ago, what Dirty Freehub offers, and the cool projects she's working on to make it even better. In this episode you'll learn how Dirty Freehub has...

Sellwood neighborhood resident Eli Arnold is running for Portland City Council District 4 (Sellwood, Eastmoreland, West of Willamette). His day job is a Portland Police Officer on the Central City Bike Squad. He and BikePortland founder Jonathan Maus talked about a wide range of issues, including: His experience on the bike squad. Why he started a community garden in his Savannah, GA neighborhood...

In this episode: Eva's wife's Robitussin-induced fever dream. What is Eva's favorite place to ride? Albina Vision Trust and the highway caps. Eva's idea to charge property tax for on-street parking spots. Sunday Parkways: The good, the bad, and the should. Weekend lanes and automated bollards are the Next Big Thing. Our big ideas for that sweet, sweet PCEF grant funding. Thoughts about Jonathan's...

Eva's back from Italy! She shares a bit about her magical time in the land of small cars, ancient roads, and wine tasting in Tuscany. Get this: Eva walked 98 miles in two weeks. That either sounds like a dream or a nightmare depending on if you have comfortable shoes. We talk about the latest Portland Bike Count report and I share the top 10 (actually 11) busiest bike intersections in the city. Ev...

Let's talk about a new way to allocate resources for Portland. Maria Sipin is working with the Community Budgeting for All campaign and they just launched a petition drive to get participatory budgeting (PB) on the November 2024 ballot in Portland. They want to take 2% of the city's General Fund (about $15.6 million) and put it in the hands of everyday people. In this conversation, you'll learn wh...

Few people in Portland know more about our city's bicycle parking policy than Chris Smith. In this conversation he shares a brief history of the issue and then explains why recent efforts by leaders in both Portland and Salem have rolled back recent bike parking code requirements. In this episode, you'll learn about the development of Portland's bike parking requirements from the inside, and we al...

Former BikePortland News Editor Michael Andersen returns! I have such fond memories of working with Michael. We broke lots of new ground as a "bike blog" together, we launched our subscription program, we won two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists together. OK, I'll stop. Now Michael is the senior researcher and transportation lead at Sightline, a well-respected think tank. He rol...

Sarah Risser is working on a project to erect memorial signs at the location of every fatal traffic crash in Portland. In this interview, she talks about that project and shares the story about how a 2019 car crash where she survived but her teenager son didn't, radicalized her into the world of road safety activism. Link: Article by Sarah for Grappling With Grief (September 2023) Sarah featured i...

Nat West is known as "Reverend Nat", the name of the successful cider business he built over the past 12 years. Now a part-time TriMet bus driver, West wants to represent City Council District 2 (N/NE) on Portland's new 12-member city council. In this episode, we talked about: All the bikes Nat has owned throughout his life. His adventures collecting apples for his ciders by bike. How defending a...

With regular co-host Eva Frazier on vacation (have fun in Italy Eva!), I (Jonathan Maus) welcomed a guest into the shed the week: Business for a Better Portland (BBPDX) Exec Director and founder of Pitch Black, Stephen Green. Stephen is an amazing dude who truly "gets it" when it comes to building community that makes Portland better. In this episode, we talk local business and politics, how trans...

Keith Wilson is a trucking company CEO, homeless services nonprofit founder, and a lifelong Portlander who grew up poor in north Portland. He came to Bike Happy Hour on February 14th, so I gave him a mic and let him share his stump speech. Afterward, I asked him a few questions and then did some Q&A with the crowd. In this episode, you'll get to know what Wilson is all about and whether he's s...

This episode features Salmonberry Trail Foundation Executive Director Caroline Fitchett, who shares an introduction to what she calls, "the most difficult and most ambitious rail to trail project in the nation." The Salmonberry would connect Washington County (just west of Portland) with the Oregon Coast via an 82-mile, carfree trail open to bicycle riders, hikers, and horseback. Get an introducti...

Don't miss this week's fun chat with BikePortland Founder/Editor/Publisher Jonathan Maus and BikeLoud PDX Board Member (and former co-owner of Clever Cycles bike shop) Eva Frazier. Here's just a taste of what you'll hear about this episode: Reflections on our attendance at the Jason Ruhmshottel ghost bike installation event BikeLoud's Squeaky Wheel project PBOT budget update Commissioner Mingus Ma...

Timur Ender is a leading candidate for Portland City Council District 1 (East). He invited me on a 12-mile bike ride around his district to show me projects he helped implement in his previous job at the Portland Bureau of Transportation, to share why he's running for city council, and to explain his vision for how transportation infrastructure can be a vital part of making east Portland an even g...

Jonathan and Eva did it again! Don't miss this week's fun chat. Here's just a taste of what you'll hear about this episode: Office hours chat with City Council candidate Chris Flanary (D3-SE) Bike parking and access at Belmont Public Library remodel Everyone in Portland is running (as in, jogging) right now and we should enlist them in the war on cars Southerly Ladies ride Caddyshack ride and the...

Eva Frazier and Jonathan Maus are back. This episode was recorded January 26th in the BikePortland Shed in the beautiful Piedmont neighborhood of north Portland as rain tapped on the roof and Eva dried out from her ride over. As per usual, we had a fun chat about a wide range of stuff: New Bike Fun app in development by Aaron Corsi We have the technology to offer listener call-ins! Gravel clean-up...

Note: This episode was recorded as a video and I'm trying something new by just sharing it here on the pod as well. I'm in the middle of tweaking some of my work-flows so I can create things more efficiently and share more voices from our community on our various platforms. - Roo (real name is Ruandy) is a community advocate who works to increase access to MTB riding for Black, Indigenous, and all...