Working Bikes

🚲 📬 Our July Mail Club is in the works! Link in bio to sign up, support our work AND get some fun snail mail! The June Mail Club has been shipped, so keep an eye out!

Chicago lost one of its best on Friday after Riley O'Neil was doored and hit by a semi while riding in Bridgeport. Riley was as kind as could be and always looking for ways to help, whether listening to community members around Chicago and getting bike racks (Riley Racks) installed where they'd be most helpful or jumping in to assist in the early days of the Bike Chicago program. Our hearts are broken and our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. Join Bike Grid Now at Palmisano Park on Monday at 7PM for a vigil and ride in Riley's honor.

🚲 💛 Thanks to everyone who joined us at our June General Meeting! Many friends of the community showed up with their very, very cool bikes for our Bike Show & Tell, thank you! Everyone who shows up makes these events so special to us, thank you the Gage Park Cyclists and Pookie for bringing a great group of cyclists into the fold. Our next General Meeting will be August 5th, hope you can join!

🚨🚨🚨 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! Starting June 9th at 11am we will be packing a shipping container full of bikes to our partners in Ruguburi, Uganda! We need all the help we can get to prep the bikes and stack them in the container, if you can make it we would love to have you! You can sign up on our volunteer program POINT for more information or just come on in to the shop!

We are proud to be partnered with the North Lawndale Ride last week, hosted by Equiticity exploring their Neighborhood Mobility Models within the neighborhood. It was great to learn about their work in the community, and how bikes support community mobility.

Thank you!

636 BIKES packed up and heading to Cycles for Farmers, our partners in Uganda! Special thanks to Think Outside Da Block for helping us out, we love to have community partners come in and pack some bikes! Our next container will be sent to the Ruguburi Bicycle Shop in Uganda, packing starts next week we would appreciate any volunteer help!

⚠ 🛠 Summer is heating up, and so is our need for bicycles! We are looking for an experienced Production Bicycle Mechanic to join our production staff upstairs. If you are interested please check the job description in the comments and email [email protected] with your resume and cover letter.

🚲 🌍 Happy World Bicycle Day from Working Bikes! We have sent over 150,000 bicycles all across the globe including Africa, Mexico, Albania and more! We are dedicated to creating a world where people have access to reliable transportation, which is only possible thanks to our wonderful community, staff and volunteers. THANK YOU!