Portland douses some Haterade on Mpls after regaining Bicycling.com’s Best Bike City honor
Two years ago, Portland, after reigning as Bicycling.com’s Best Bike City for 15 years, ceded the title to Minneapolis.
Though Bicycling.com’s methodology is pretty fuzzy, the news prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth in PDX.
This morning, Bicycling.com released a new version of its biannual list, and suffice it to say Portlandians can breathe easy once again — their city again rates as the Best Bike City
Rob Sadowsky, executive director of the city’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance, said Portland is “back on top where we belong.” A Bike Portland blogger tweeted that he’s glad Bicycling.com “came to their senses,” adding “it really was scandalous to put any other city on top.”
Bicycling.com pours a bit more Haterade on Minneapolis in a column accompanying the release of the new rankings. Check out the dismissive tone with which Portland resident Bill Donahue mentions Minneapolis (emphasis mine):
Those of us who ride daily in Portland, we know. We know we are the vanguard of American cycling. No other city in the United States has more cyclists per capita, and no other town has a coffee shop like Fresh Pot, which boasts 25 chairs and parking for 26 bicycles. We have trains of elementary-school bike commuters, and we have Move By Bike, a relocation-company that trundles couches across town on overstacked bike trailers. Even our city’s noncycling Lotharios know it is a deal-killer to ask, at the end of a sprightly first date, “Can I throw your bike in my car and give you a lift home?”
Minneapolis? Please. Let’s ride along the Willamette now…via City Pages
Portland? Please. Let’s ride along the Mississippi now…
The great Portland versus Minneapolis bike war of 2012 has begun my friends.
all i have to say about bill donahue is: portlandia
home sweet home (Taken with instagram)
My friend Jason and his main squeeze went to this park of scrap metal sculpture, the Forevertron, in the middle of Wisconsin. I’ve always wanted to go!
nice job, p&g
i found this to be well made and effective. i got a lil emotional and emailed my mother.
Analyzing Tea.
hallucinations? tea = love is also questionable. i do love tea though.
speaking of fortunes, i want to go to a psychic soon. hopefully i won’t be a cleo!
(Source: thisfoldedmind)
i’ve had a big picture of a baby on my tumblr for days. uhhh..
i’ve got my fingers crossed for another trip to the b-hive.
good:
Each day, I would make a list of all of the problems I wanted to solve in the next 24 hours, then get in bed at 8 p.m. I would wake up somewhere between 4 and 6 a.m. with most of the solutions flooding through my head. Implementation took far less time, I made fewer mistakes, and even though I’d gotten up so early, I didn’t feel completely terrible because I had actually slept.
8pm is too early for me but in general, im trying to do this myself
Cloud formations over the Aleutian Islands, 2000, produced by the U.S. Geological Survey
cool clouds in minneapolis today
Taken with Instagram at Soap Factory
