Tour de Fat is coming to Chicago JUNE 26th! Join West Town Bikes and New Belgium Brewery for a community ride and festival celebrating bicycles in Palmer Square! This carnival of fun and creativity is West Town Bikes' biggest fund raiser of the year…
To celebrate Bonfire Night (two days late), British Bicycles of Chicago is hosting the 2009 Bonfire Night Tweed Ride. Don your best woollies, pocket your flask, strap some combustibles (wood preferred) to your bicycle and join us! Effigies are welco…
August 22, 2009 at 9:30am to August 23, 2009 at 2am
A slow century around the city with lots of stops for site-seeing, snacking and skinnydipping. Meet up at Wicker Park Fountain at 9:30 AM, depart at 10:00 sharp. Bring breakfast to the fountain if you wish, but we will leave promptly at 10.
Light r…
Miss F,
I have had no problems with any VO stuff. And, I am certain they would want to replace the bag, or offer you a credit toward any of the others they carry, though the ostrich is the most handsome. BTW, followed the progress on your bike and…
3rd Annual 329Cycles Bicycles Swap Meet
Sunday, August 16th 6am-2pm
At The AllState Arena
It will be held along with the Wolffs Weekly FleaMarket which is one of Illinois Largest
Last Year over 1,000 Customers Attend our Show and it was a GREAT Succ…
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it-Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents- we've probably either ridden or screen…
I just bought the pannier from VO, and on the third day of use, the seams on the leather strip (on the back of the pannier, toward the bottom), came undone, exposing the metal bar. The bar got caught in the stays of my rear rack + fenders, bending t…
For this month's neighborhood bike tour, Big Shoulders Realty has partnered with the Active Transportation Alliance and the Friends of the Major Taylor Trail to present a tour of Hyde Park.
Hyde Park, Chicago Community Area #41 sits 7 miles south…
I have a confession...I went and saw the show when a friend was in town. John is jealous that I did so. And now my parents might want to go, so I may have to go again. Regardless...it was fun!
Incidentally tomorrow night is the LATE ride. I don't know if I will still be downtown that late, but it's always fun to join in the ride.
I went with woody's. They're made in a garage in Oregon from what I understand. I didn't do much research. Actually I've never heard of any of the other names you mentioned. Just got them today. Can't wait to set 'em up. Lace wood, Wenge, and Purpleheart. Cost just as much as the honjo's too. Couldn't pass it up.