David Saltzberg

David is an incredible builder and the owner of Domain Nouveau. His company specializes in large complex remodels, one of which I personally visited. I was impressed by the beautiful imported finishes used in the home and more impressed by the time frame and ease in which they had been incorporated into the design. David’s 17 years of experience show through very clearly in his finished product. After meeting the owner of this beautifully remodeled home I took notice of the absence of stress which usually goes hand in hand with construction projects (especially when nearing completion). There were no talks of budgets or schedules run over, just lots of laughs and smiles. If you have ever built or remodeled a home you know that it takes a tremendous amount of planning and foresight to not just end up with a home but with the home that you had dreamed about. If you know someone or you yourself are looking for builder email David at david@domainnouveau.com or visit the website www.domainnouveau.com

Brecht Daams

Brecht Daams is an ergonomic consultant, specialized in usability of products and software/websites. How do users use and experience a product? Is it safe, comfortable, effective and efficient to use? And how can this user experience be improved on by adapting the product? Brecht can give you useful advice in this area. Over the last 11 years, she advised on mobile devices, signposting, products for disabled people, websites, products for children, and much more. She investigated cross-cultural usability aspects, too. Product use may differ between different countries, even if the products are the same. One day each week Brecht works with Delft University of Technology, dept. of Industrial Design Engineering. A recent visit to the Usability Professionals Association Conference in Portland enabled her to join the Business on a Bike group ride.

Brecht rode a mountain bike that she rented on our ride becoming our first international rider. Brecht normally rides a recumbent bike. If you want to know more about recumbent cycling ask Brecht. She knows everything about recumbents and is involved in the organization of the largest recumbent event in the world: CycleVision (www.cyclevision.nl). Her favorite bike at the moment is a rowing bike (www.rowingbike.com).

Did you know that recumbents are more ergonomic and efficient for some tasks than upright bikes? If you want to know more about usability and user experience for a product you or your company are developing, ask Brecht. She can be contacted at daams@ergonomie.nl ,Skype: daamsergonomie or visit her profile on Linked in http://www.linkedin.com/in/daams

Peter L Seelig

Our "Business on a Bike" featured member this week is Peter Seelig. Peter is a managing partner at Fenton Wangler Financial. Pete has been out a number of times to our Friday networking ride over the past year. Bill has also built a great relationship that has lead to him joining Pete on rides with his clients and coworkers.

Pete has continued to give great financial advice, and his relationship with his clients even in times like these is impressive. It seems these days that certain professions are commoditized.....one example is Accountants who are forced to pit their personal tailored advice against much cheaper do it yourself tax software. We all forget that what is most important is not the $200 we saved in fees, but
what type of advice we receive "cheap advice is expensive". If you are looking for a local financial services firm that isn't obligated to sell you its brand of mutual funds and can guide you to the most profitable investments than come join us on the ride this Friday and meet Pete himself.

Pete is pictured above riding Windy Ridge last summer. The ride was 88 miles with 10,000 feet of climbing. As you can see the views are unbelievable.

Peter L. Seelig, CMFC
Managing Partner, Fenton Wangler Financial

503-255-3898 x5006 office
503-320-2005 cell
503-255-3948 fax
pseelig@fwfinancial.com

Third Thursday Ride

We are happy to announce our first ever Third Thursday ride. Come join us this Thursday evening at the Salmon Street Springs Fountain located on Portland's waterfront. We have been listening to feedback from a number of our members and we have decided to try Thursday evening out at least once a month. If the turnout is great we may add it as a normal ride. We will roll out at 5:29 PM, so you should have plenty of time to get off of work to join us. We hope to see you there to add you to our list of members to feature.

Pictured above are Bill Dolan, Brian Alfano, Bretchtje Daams, and Tony Halford. All were present for Friday's ride and hung around after the ride for this photo, we missed a few who left before we realized there was a camera. Bretchtje (Bridgitt) came out on the ride on a rented bike while she was in town from Europe, so she is officially our first international rider. The ride was great, we logged 15.5 miles in one hour 20 minutes at a conversation frienly 13.5 mph. We hope to see you on Thursday or Friday. Keep your eyes out for the next featured member as well.

Tony Halford Photography

Our featured member this week, in fact our first ever on the blog is Tony Halford who is a professional photographer. I am very excited to feature Tony because I have known him for several years now and have enjoyed his photographs at a number of public displays around the Portland area. He has also punished me up a number of hills on the West side as well.

Tony began taking photographs over 20 years ago whith a small project taking promotional pictures of Oregon's Governor Barbara Roberts. In 1993 a travel bug bit off more than it could chew as Tony backpacked around the globe capturing images in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. Besides portraits, sporting events and business projects he photographs weddings now, well, he's good at it. In an upcoming trip to Europe he'll be searching for under publicized events to record, in his continuing effort to give us a truer comprehension of the cultural diversity of our planet.

Tony's work has been featured in a number of Umpqua Bank locations as well as at Portland's well know First Thursday in the Pearl. Publishers have used his photographs in travel books, news articles, magazines and websites including Velonews (click on the link for a gallery of Tony's work with Velo).

Come out to the ride this Friday and meet Tony. He will be joining us at the NW Lucky Lab starting at 3 PM. The ride will be conversation paced to help build relationships and should be done around 4:30 PM. Hope to see you there, who knows soon enough you will be featured on here as well.

Contact info for Tony Halford Photography tonyjoe4@juno.com

Hello Portland

Hello Portland Cycling and Business Community. Today we have launched this blog to help build an effort that started last fall called Business on a Bike. This is a very simple concept in that we would like to bring like minded people together to have fun while networking.

Business on a Bike is a weekly ride based out of downtown Portland with the intention of bringing business people together to go for a roughly hour and a half ride and hopefully build relationships with each ride. We will post the ride here on this site each Tuesday with a feature of one of the riders that has attended the ride. So not only do you get to meet great people on the ride but you may be featured for everyone in the world to see. I have been attending the rides for the past few months and I can't think of a better way to help build my business.

If you stumbled across this you most likely have these two things in common. One a love for getting out on the road on your bike. Two a need to grow your business or your book of business. This group addresses those needs and not in the standard way that you are familiar with. We don't have coffee and pastries and force you to stand in a circle and give an elevator pitch. No we let you build the relationships as you head out on a ride that you would most likely do in your free time. The rides are all at conversation pace and not meant to show how fast you are, nobody is dropped on these rides. It's a Win Win for everyone.

We hope to see you on a ride soon and please come back to see the schedules for the ride as well as support the individuals featured each week. Please post comments to give us suggestions as we build this group.