This week, a few science lessons from the commute. As Portland-area drivers, transit riders, walkers and bicyclists have tried their best to get around during the recent arctic assault, a blizzard of ...

The cold season is still going strong for those who live in the Northern Hemisphere. While freezing temperatures might not make commuting something that anyone is looking toward, there are ways that ...

With all the talk about why our roads are full of ruts and potholes, I thought it’d be a good time to check in on an effort to ban studded tires in Oregon. Since he embarked on his signature-gathering ...

Last month when I wrote about the bike handling benefits of riding in the snow, I realized that the section on winter bike commuting was going to be much longer than expected. Today’s follow-up to the ...

When it comes to incentivizing individuals to make more environmentally conscious travel decisions, government subsidies have proven quite successful in the past. It begs the question, if subsidies ...

ODOT’s last estimate blamed $50-60 million in annual road damage on studded tire use. (Photo by J. Maus/BikePortland) Studded tires have been a thorn in the Oregon Department of Transportation’s side ...

New regulations put into place by the International Cycling Union on January 11 this year specifically ban the use of studded tires in cyclo-cross. The UCI regulations on wheels (1.3.018) read "Wheels ...