Originally Posted by
randya
The person that is able to unify all the disparate elements that make up 'bike culture' in portland has a good shot at becoming the next mayor of the city.
seriously, the ridiculous and arbitrary subdivisions between all the different types of cyclists in Portland does more to hold cyclists back as a political force than anything else. unified, who knows what can be accomplished???
I don't see mass gangs of Fred's or trail rats picketing city hall with what they need as equal rights. There are people in Hillsboro, Portland , Gresham, Beaverton and Vancouver and a few other cities that make up our cycling culture - and we can't drive the agenda of a place where we don't pay the taxes or vote. Bike clubs have to be the mobility of the movement in our sub culture which every year gets larger and larger. We have Mia Birk whom was just wrote up in the Oregonian about her value to bicyclist and how it turned out to make Portland #1 as a cycling community. ( we had help form all the other cities mentioned before)