It was a full nine months ago when I first reported on NE Portland's Community Cycling Center (CCC) putting together a report about why low-income people, racial minorities, and women bike at lower rates than white men and this week I was finally about to report about some of the findings of their research. With a $70,000 Metro grant and hundreds of hours logged at community meetings around Portland, the CCC didn't collect any hard data breaking down bike ridership by race or income in the city, basing their findings on anecdotal evidence from interviews and meetings.
The first-person reasons given why people don't bike, but they're no big surprise. The main barriers to biking are cost, safety, and lack of familiarity with biking in general.
