Why ride BIKES in Portland. 10 good reasons
Bike riding in Portland Oregon
Why go by bicycle? 10 good reasons…..
1. The bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation ever invented.More then half of all transit in the United States is six miles or less roundtrip, a distance easily made on a bicycle.
2. If you see someone you know while riding, it’s easy to stop and say hello. Bicycles create public space, enhance street life and build a sense
of community.
3. There are no parking problems for bicyclists, nor are there parking fees or tickets. Lock your bike to parking meters rather than putting quarters in them. In the space one car takes up, twelve or more bicycles
can be parked, which solves parking problems in densely-populated areas.
4. Americans spend 15 to 20 percent of their income on cars. If you ride a
bike, not only can you skip car payments, but you can also skip insurance
payments, maintenance, DMV annoyance and stopping to pay for gas.
Car-sharing for occasional driving is becoming a more reasonable
alternative. (A good new bicycle can cost as low as $250. No DMV, no
insurance, no gas, very little maintenance.)
5. Millions of Americans want to lose weight, and yet they step into cars
everyday, passing up the opportunity to exercise. In addition to weight
loss, bicycling reduces the risk of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and
high blood pressure. Given the abysmal state of health care in the United
States (which is partially due to the cost of treating well over 2 million
car accident victims each year), self-prescribed preventative activity is
a wise decision. If people start biking to their local destination,
health care and insurance costs dramatically drop.
6. If you stand in a closed garage with a running car, you will die in a
matter of minutes. Hundreds of thousands of cars in our local cities
create dirty, unhealthy air that we breath in. What do you think that’s doing to your heart
and lungs?
7. In 2001, more than 3,000 Americans died of terrorism on our own home
soil. Also in 2001, more than 43,000 Americans died in car crashes on our
own home soil, and about 2,200,000 suffered disabling injuries. Think
about it.
8. States, counties and cities spend billions of dollars fixing roads
that cars damage. A Honda Civic, a compact car, weighs about 2,500 pounds.
That’s about 100 times more than the average bicycle. Wear and tear on
roads from bicycles is almost nonexistent.
9. Experts estimate that easily accessible oil (in other words, cheap
oil) will run out around the year 2010. Then drilling in our National
Parks and Wildlife will be a necessity. After cheap oil runs out, the
price of gas will dramatically shoot up. The economic ramifications of
this suggest that the sooner we accommodate oil free transportation into
our daily lives the better.
10. Watch any TV show, look through any magazine and you will come across
ads showing how cars will make you cool,
sexy, popular, respected, at one with nature, safe, etc. The car and oil
industries spend billions of dollars each year to promote a benign image
of driving, but the function of all this is to assure profits and
manipulate consumers, and nothing more.
Here are a few great Bikes shops…
Veloce Bicycles in the Hawthorne neighborhood
The Revolver Bike Company in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood
Bike Gallery in Woodstock and Cherry Park neighborhoods
Citybikes Workers Cooperative in the Buckman neighborhood
Clever Cycles in the Abernathy neighborhood
Sellwood Cycle repair in the Sellwood neighborhood
Bicycle Repair collective in the Hawthorne neighborhood
Community Cycling Center in the Alberta arts neighborhood
Waterfront bicycle rentals in Downtown Portland
The Kennedy School – Portland Entertainment
Welcome to the Kennedy School, located in the Northeast Portland Concordia neighborhood. McMenamins has renovated the once-abandoned scholastic gem and turned it into one Portland’s favorite hot spots among locals and out of state visitors.
The Kennedy School in NE Portland
Originally opened in 1915 as an elementary school, now Inside you will find everything from the old school auditorium turned into a movie theater with couches and tables to eat your home made pizza, to the detention hall turned into a whiskey and cigar room. The cafeteria now houses a fine eating establishment with a great menu and several home made beers on tap and a gift shop to pick up some great memories. A huge 20 person hot tub soaking pool and and an extra large conference room now hosts great live local and out of state performers of all types. The classrooms are turned into guest rooms with original chalkboards and cloakrooms, private baths, telephones and modems. Amazing artwork lines the walls, much of it dates back from the early years of The Kennedy Schools existence.
I love the scene and the good energy the school has. This is truly a must see experience to enjoy if you have yet to visit. The Kennedy is located at: 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave. Portland, OR 97211
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Hawthorne district bars. Pub crawl the night away.
Hawthorne Blvd famous Bagdad theater with full restaurant and micro brew pub
Some of the best micro-brews are found in Portland Oregon, and more specifically in the Hawthorne neighborhood. Walking up and down Hawthorne Blvd. you will come across a wide range of pubs offering some of the most tasty and tantalizing beer on tap. Dark and rich stouts, full bodied brown ale’s, amazing IPA beers, Hefeweizen, Lager’s and of course Portland’s favorite light beer, PBR.
If you are a local in Portland, grab your friends and pick a great evening for a Portland pub crawl. Walk up and down the strip going from pub to pub, and after a full evening then take the trimet or taxi home. Some great spots right on Hawthorne to hit up are The Lucky Lab where you can bring your dog and have a beer, The Barley Mill pub with its great 60’s psychedelic feel, McMenamins Bagdad theater- grab a beer some pizza and watch a movie, Imbibe Restaurant and Lounge- lovely live music performances, BOG Bar of the Gods, Angelo’s, Roots Organic brewery for that healthy sip of beer, and my favorite The Sapphire Hotel, where the ambiance and class makes me feel comfy and welcomed.
If you are visitng Portland for the first time be sure to walk along Hawthorne not only for their great beers on tap, but also for the wide range of shops of clothing, antiques, great restaraunts of all types, gift shops and so much more of what makes the Hawthorne district one of the hottest spots in Portland Oregon.
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My introduction and education in Real Estate started back in college, 1989, in Los Angeles, California.
I chose to work with M Realty because of their top of the world technology and innovative home searching website unmatched anywhere in the US.
I enjoy meeting Portland locals and opening the door to so many different and unique homes to view. I also have been working with families relocating to Portland since day one as a licensed Portland Realtor. Having a vast knowledge of the Portland homes for sale, neighborhoods, schools, local places of interests and just an overall love for our city makes this job more of a passion.
My past working bio consisted of other interests within public relations:
An Astronomy educator for NASA and the Griffith Observatory.
President/CEO of AIRTIME BOARDS snowboard company.
Creator and author of KEVDIDDY children\'s music, books and videos.
In my spare time I enjoy watching my beautiful boy grow, camping where you can\'t see civilization, giving star talks under a clear night sky, The White Album, brewing my own organic blueberry wine and Organic gardening. I have been living off of my Organic fruit and vegetable garden for the last 25 years. I don\'t go produce shopping for 8 months of the year. I also have some of the most healthiest and happiest chickens from which I get fresh eggs daily.
It\'s a good day to live in Portland!
