How Bikes Make Cities Cool - Portland

 Polar bears ARE epic

Didn't spot any DH rigs in there though, lol

 i heard about portland in 'its all about the bike'. good book, sounds like an awesome city to live and ride in.

 if only more cities were like this......

 Bikes don't get stolen in Portland?

 Awesome video! Portland seems like a cool place.

 Im glad that the fuel prices in our country are getting bigger, and i hope one day here will be like in portland.

 That should definately be Kona's new slogan... 'Kona Bikes... because Polar Bears are epic.'

 this video was fuckin awesome!

 yes but i think you have given bike thiefs much confidence now, especially if they know they have almost 8 mins before police show up.

 Normally I hate people posting link, but that was awesome...I've seen (I think about 1 year ago) a Giant Glory...just looked with a little bike look...It would be soooo easy to get a good Bike :O

 Yep. I always take the bike inside or I ride the Piece of Poo when I know I have to leave it outside. Think about it, even without cutting crap off it would take a good mechanic 5 minutes to leave you with just a frame.

 yeah, but the kid was on a freaking kona 24" cross bike. If you are struggling, isn't a 24" crossbike a bit of an indulgence, is it really necessary?

 We don't know how he got it. second hand, those bikes are a couple hundred. Kid might have earned it himself?

 the vid is sponsored by kona so maybe, just maybe the lent/gave him it?

 or its cheaper than buying a car and gas for driving the kid to school

 Yeah Portland tries coming off as bike friendly but in reality the majority of people living there seem anti-mtb. Its just a bunch of hipsters riding fixies. Shit its even hard to ride a bike at Burnside. If you want to ride real man shit you have to go outta town a ways or pay to ride at The Lumberyard.

 So fuckin' true man!!!!!! It's all road bikers and they hate mountain bikers because portland tries to be green and is against trail building.

 I live in Portland, and I am with you guys about the lack of trails in the city limits, its really sad!!! BUt at least last year NWTA finally got two projects approve by the city. The first ever pump track in a Portland City Park, Ventura Pump Track and the remodel of Eichler Park in Beaverton where know we have a cool jump line for bmx and dj bikes. Come out and help us build some trails, come out and help give us numbers soo the City have to listen to us. This year we have new project in the city a full Skills Bike Park in North Portland and we have to do alot of work to get Post Canyon rideable again after the storm. Come to a NWTA meeting and help us out

 I think you guys are so focussed on your definition of 'bike friendly' that you missed the point of the video. Try moving to a 'conservative' state where they love guns, horses, Jesus and motorsports - they'll let you make all the trails you want. And they'll encourage you to ride them at more than 15mph.

 Please watch:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFS_s_h8sC0

 NWTA has the right idea and their projects are great for the area. Eventually the public eye will turn towards advocating offroad riding, and the folks at NWTA are the ones that will make it happen in Portland. I'm sorry for using this video as a soapbox for my opinions about mountain biking in the area, since it is a very nice video. I am glad to see the community riding and making an effort to reduce carbon footprint etc... I just hope that eventually we can put tires to dirt within the city limits on something that isn't an abandoned fire road. Until then, we'll be driving a long ways for good riding.

 Screw portland. Mountain bikes have been around for how long and there still isn't any good trails in portland? I guess if you follow the skateboard timeline, in 10yrs or so we should have bike parks everywhere in the city. Seriously its a town loaded with self righteous hypocrites. I am glad I don't live there. I hate going there for the most part. And I don't see them ever changing. At least not until we get some decent leadership. Doubt that will happen anytime soon. We could have an awesome area of the state that could bring in a ton of tourist dollars, look at the shore and whistler. But instead we are stuck with morons in tight pants, with ugly sunglasses pushing bikes that can't coast down the sidewalk and saying how awesome this town is for bikes. Screw them. Screw them all. I am gonna go back to building my trails and maybe eventually it will catch on.

 PDX is massively bike friendly until you get to mountain bikes, but that tide is (hopefully) turning. Lumeryard MTB park will be open soon, hopefully the city gets off it's arse on all the skateparks it's supposed to build too. NWTA has a few things starting to happen in city limits, maybe, they need all of our help if we want anything to ride. We used to get run off the road commuting, drive an hour to rays mtb and 7 to snowshoe, Portland is a big improvement over that, but could always be better. Just mind that the doofus in tight jeans on a track bike might be me riding to work on something faster than my freeride bike or bmx :]

 The comments above could not have said it better- Portland is nice towards bikes if you're a roadie or commuter... MTBer's are totally outta luck here; which absolutely blows. I shoulda' done more research before moving here... The thoughts of moving to Bend definitely intrigue me.

 here's some Portland DH action for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4AHjCkXTqE

 Zoo bomb is more asshatery than good DH riding. There used to be some ok trails out in Washington park, but the trail runners and hikers would always get pissed.

 Yep, I 2nd that.

 Couldn't agree more. As soon as you leave the pavement this "bike friendly city" seems to see us as nothing more than a huge wallet that needs to pay up.

 Can't even begin to explain how many Dirt jumps and trails I've been part of in this city that have been torn down. Fail. Nothing against the commuters. Wish I could still do that. Just needs to be consideration for both sides.

 what a douche this guy is, huh? great addition to the conversation bowen1911, get lost.

 Bowen1911, just come over I'll show you a REAL men!!

 by the looks of your profile, video and pics, your a loser

 @Bowen1911 Love it

 I look like a loser because I spend my time not documenting every little biking activity I do? TROLOLOLOL again!!!

 Fun fact: due to the number of accidents in Portland relating to fixies, it is illegal to ride a fixie if you do not have hand brakes.

 As a law-abidding cyclist (rider, racer and commuter), I CRINGED watching cyclists in Portland... actaully I cringe in most cities , but Portland was the worst, followed by San Fran.

 Sounds good man. I work downtown about 5-6 days a week and can bomb down from Multnomah Village in like 25 minutes...

 just to give you guys that hate Portland a little perspective,its an urban environment, so its gonna be urban riding. You have to travel an hr to get to some of the best mtb trails in the world, and this is a bad thing? and being from Philadelphia and Boston areas at different times in my life, an altercation with a driver would be welcome cuz, usually they just clip you and if they cut you off in traffic and you give lip, you might get shot. If you want to ride your mtb in city limits go live in your isolated little west coast bumpkin towns, and leave the city alone. I live in Bend, we technically don't have DH trails in city limits, we go out to the trail for that. I would imagine this video is just about promoting cycling as a lifestyle choice, and kona is pumped about Portland having a large number of avid cyclists.

 Agreed...SD blows for road riding

 Hey Al Gore the only hating going on is on the city or Portland that claims to be so biker friendly. The ONLY bikers it's friendly to are a small cross section of the biking community and if you aren't part of that then you're SOL. We have one of the largest parks in the country within city limits and dozens of other parks in the Portland area. None of them have a single biking trail and you risk tickets and the off chance of getting arrested if you do. It's not a matter or "well you only need to drive an hour to get to the best biking trails in the world" it's the fact that the city prides itself on loving bikers and in reality if you don't commute to work they could care less about you and are looked at as an outcast...... On a brighter note we do have a bunch of sweet green boxes to designate where bikers are supposed to sit in traffic that only cost the city just shy of a million dollars!

 If you want a "mountain bike" friendly communtity, go to a mountain town, Portland is a metropolitan area, you have city things happening, the fact that kona and portland are trying to encourage cycling is awesome, we should all be supporting eachother, you ever get the feeling that roadie guys and fixie guys are discriminated against by mt bikers instead of the other way around? dont we all just want to live on 2 wheels? btw I ride a bmx and a stinky, so save all the fixie jokes.

 Exactly my sentiments mirdad., Stinky's don't ride too good in the city.

 I got chased by a Giant Nutrio out there once.

 thats wicked!

 Hipster=too cool for school, I'm winning the " I'm more weird than you contest"

 They make epic rugs

 And China is on the verge of owning America....