dudes who live here, kickball at 6pm at SE 20th and Belmont

Things are moving along way faster than expected. I just got hired on at OHSU so I'll probably moving up 1st or 2nd week in June. Still looking for apartments around town. Spending a lot of time on Google Earth flying over town, looking at possible bike routes and what not. Found a killer .kmz here that has lots of bike paths laid out and ranked as High, Moderate, Low, bike lane...yadda yadda .. its cool though. I'm getting really excited to gtf out of SLC I must say.

i kinda do and kinda don't miss pdx. i think i'll visit sometime.

yeah i can definitely understand that, right now i think its great but in the next few years i'm expecting to be looking around for new cities, Philly in '11??

it was unoccupied and in construction, and an out of control corporate chain. I see no problem.

I was told they finished construction and opened regardless, and regularly have a police car around the area, which makes sense seeing as police are nothing more than the protectors of private property.

I'm not trying to be some hardcore anarcho punk, but seriously, why give a **** if a corporate entity is destroyed and no one is harmed? No one was immediately out of work, as the place wasn't open, if anything, construction workers got a longer contract because starbucks had to rebuild.

Up the punx, lol.

you pdx-people with complaints, what do you not like?

The people. The ****ing annoying as hell "bikey" hippy/ hipster ****ing people. If I never see another ****** wearing skinny black jeans and ranting about burning down a ****ing starbucks because it's "too corporate man" I'll be happy.

Oh and the ****ing "Keep Portland Weird" bumper stickers. I ****ing hate that whole movement.

Keep Portland Weird is the ****, if you don't like it go to Music Millenium and tell them. We're a weird town and should stay that way.

I agree with the holier-than-thou track bike hipsters pissing me off, but seriously, just ignore them. It's not that hard. Just because we both ride track bikes doesn't mean we have anything in common.

P.S. If you live here and you go to Starbucks, you don't know coffee and that's the truth. Why is that so harsh for you? We live in a town that houses one of the best coffee roasteries in America, Stumptown, and we're a city that likes to support local business. The suburbanites from Gresham and the yuppies from the Pearl are the ones supporting Starbucks. Yay for weirdo liberal Portland OR.

My only complaint is the cops targeting fixed gears, and the fact that downtown is torn up with construction.

+1 to mr. A-to-the-N.

i also just really had a hard time making friends. could have been me, could have been people's attitudes, could have been a mix.

last race i went to i turned around and left cus my friend and i started getting heckled by some of the messengers. i just rode by and they started saying **** like, "come on skid! you can do it!" just because you don't know me doesn't mean i can't ride my bike.

some people just need to put there attitudes away in this town. it makes me not want to meet new people through riding bikes.

Heckled by messengers??

the bad part of portland is its too cool for school attitude

but it is hard to tell who actually has it and who doesnt

sometimes

people just look too cool for school

which isnt cool but can be accepted

aw phooey
i think a lot of that stuff is just in our heads, make believe, besides, the people who front those types of attitude are often the ones with self esteem issues

personally if i even felt the least bit "heckled" at a race/ride, whatever... i would most likely directly approach them and strike up a conversation, see whats up, if they were just kidding around or if they had real beef with me. why would they? i have faith pdx will be a effing kickass place to reside

so im still very excited to move, still skowering CL for an apt. if yal have a scoop on somthin hit me up. and once i get up there i expect a full on tour and some heckling and a puch in the eye.

i guess i could of approached them but i just really didn't want to deal with it. it wasn't a big deal or anything, i wasn't trying to make it seem like it was. i was just using it as an example of people trying to be elitest/cool/whatever.

anyway, welcome to portland

yeah, portland people are a little too cool/pro-(anything you can think of) sometimes, if that makes sense. i've met a lot of people who needed to get over themselves

edit: oh! and where the hell are the girls that don't drink/smoke, ****

try salt lake city

how about a hipster swap
?

goddamn, man...portland people are boozers...if you can deal with 9 months of no sun without it, good for you....but portland is dark, rainy, and full of alcohol(ics).

Check some place with a sikkk sXe mosh scene for that dawg. have all the throwdown offshoots in the oc gone away yet?

no, but i'm pre-drinking to go to a death metal show at a sXe venue.

****ed up, ain't it? who ever heard of sXe and death metal together?

VB/Richmond VA had huge hardcore scenes, it was nice to get away from it but i guess i underestimated the link

on the plus side, the brakeless bill has passed the house committee and now awaits a floor vote before it's finally signed into law...

well, good thing for people that would rather watch out for traffic rather than motorcycle cops downtown. bad thing for the dutret's of the world.

I moved here about 9 months ago, I think it's tight. Got a fixed gear after my city bike thing got stolen and it's been alright, there's some too cool for schools around but that ain't ****. Someone yelling 'get some gears' or whatever is the same as people yelling 'skater ***' at me 20 years ago, just let it ride. The majority of peeps I have met so far have been pretty mellow. And yeah, that Stumptown **** is bangin.'

Andre, what are the spots to avoid as far as cop traps? I'm brakeless and had a cop slow down and turn right in front of me on Vancouver, I think he was trying to figure out how fast I could stop...whatever he did it for, it was stupes...

all of downtown.

harsh.