Mike Cobb
Bike industry Designer, Fabricator, Vendor
Mike Cobb is a biologist by education, welder-fabricator by trade, and bicycle transportation advocate by default. Mike worked in the bike industry for 3 decades and the cargo bike sector for two of those.
Community Initiatives
Mike dreamed up the Disaster Relief Trials (DRT) initiative as a response to the Haiti earthquake disaster of 2010 and the insufficient relief inputs thereafter. He brought the DRT dream to life in Portland, Oregon in 2012, with the help of co-founders Ethan Jewett and Travis Wittwer. Mike has developed two loanable event kits and a consulting service which has adequately encouraged 12 other communities on three continents to host 22 DRTs.
Perspectives
“For the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure.”
– Portland Mayor Sam Adams
“Some of the anti-bicyclist sentiment is deserved…Bicyclists have a tendency to, first of all, break laws and take liberties that the brilliant machine makes possible, that’s true; on the other hand, they tend to be quite defensive about their personal space in traffic. Slight encroachments are met with, at the least, glares and indignation. It’s not so much the lawbreaking or the indignation but the combo of the two that does it. To the motorist it can appear bratty, selfish, and hypocritical.”
– Robert Hurst, The Cyclist’s Manifesto