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Bike Swap

Dies anyone know If the swap at UIC is going to happen this winter? The one out at Harper College is in a couple of weeks but I was wondering if the UIC one was still on. Nothing is happening on their web site http://chicagobikeswap.org so I was wondering. Maybe it is happening later this year into spring/summer?

It'd be a real bummer if it didn't happen. It was always a good one.

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Permalink Reply by Michael A on January 3, 2014 at 6:53pm
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on January 3, 2014 at 7:03pm
That is superawesomesauce. I'm without a real ISP right now (apparently Comcast only uses the psychic friends network to inform you that your autopay is not working right. Email, snail mail, and even a phone call are too blasé so they prefer to just lock out your modem instead and let you figure it out yourself after troubleshooting for hours...)

Anyway it seems this mobile site is a bit difficult to search for stuff like this swap. I looked and looked and found nothing. I should have just used the desktop option.
Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 3, 2014 at 7:47pm
There's also the big suburban one out in Palatine 1/18. http://www.thechainlink.org/events/chicago-winter-bike-swap-5
Permalink Reply by Dave Grossman on January 4, 2014 at 8:53pm

The one in Palatine is great.  It doesn't have a ton of commuter type stuff but if you need road/mtb take offs and random parts you can do well.

Permalink Reply by Eli on January 5, 2014 at 2:02pm

What is the Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition mentioned in the bike swap flyer linked in the first comment? Googling only finds a bunch of stuff related to the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation/Active Trans, but this seems to be something else.

Permalink Reply by Vilda on January 5, 2014 at 7:53pm
Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition is a new organization that has taken over running the Bike Swap. They will have more details posted soon. :)
Permalink Reply by Vilda on January 5, 2014 at 7:54pm
Oh and I all most forgot: Fuck Beezodog!
Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on January 6, 2014 at 10:10am

We posted a blog (copied/pasted below) about not being able to produce a swap this year and are glad that there are still swaps happening.

Thanks,

Ethan Spotts, Active Trans

Submitted by espotts on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 9:33am

Bike swaps 2014

For the past three years we’ve hosted the Chicago Bike Swap in partnership with our friends at Bike Winter. And we really enjoyed hosting the swaps, but unfortunately we’re not able to produce the swap for 2014. We’re bummed about this because we feel it’s a great event and opportunity to connect with the local bike community.

The good news: we’re planning a new large-scale bike ride for the summer (official announcement coming soon!). We wanted to make sure we could focus our event team on making that successful.

We may bring our swap back it in 2015, but thankfully Bike Winter is working with some other folks to host a Winter Bike Swap at Jak’s Tap on Feb. 15 (the same place we worked with Bike Winter and other partners to host a pilot bike swap four years ago).

And in a couple of weeks, there’s also the 7th annual Chicago Winter Bike Swap on Jan. 18 at Harper College in Palatine.

Both swaps look to be great opportunities for local cyclists to get together and check out cool deals.

So if you want to get your bike swap on, thankfully there are some Chicagoland options!

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on January 6, 2014 at 10:14am

Ramen to that!

Vilda said:

Oh and I all most forgot: Fuck Beezodog!
Permalink Reply by Eli on February 13, 2014 at 10:30am

Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition is a new organization that has taken over running the Bike Swap. They will have more details posted soon. :)

I would really love to know more about what this organization is or plans to do.

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on February 13, 2014 at 11:09am

The Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition

Mission Statement

The Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition is committed to making the Chicago metropolitan area a safer place for cyclists, to promote the bicycle as a mode of daily transportation and to improve the bicycling infrastructure of Chicago and its suburbs.

Who Are We?

That is an excellent question! At the moment, we are nothing more than a group of cyclists that have come together to address the role of cycling and the cyclist in Chicago and the surrounding area. We seek to make the bicycle a more convenient mode of transportation for the area’s citizens. We seek to make our streets safer to bike on. We hope to decrease the tension between cyclists and non-cyclists. We want to make cycling a more attractive option for everyone. We would like to see more people get on their bikes and seek to give cyclists a pleasant and safe route and a place to safely park at their destination.

About our Name

The Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition hopes to work with citizens of the Chicago area, governments, other advocacies, activists and allies throughout the region to promote our general agenda of safer and more convenient bicycle riding and all that this entails. It is a tip of the hat to the many bicycle advocacies throughout the United States that precede and inspire us like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition and the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition. Our name also pays homage to the predecessor of the Active Transportation Alliance, the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. Active Transportation Alliance continues to support a central tenet of our mission, and they are a group we consider a strong ally with many mutual interests. More than anything, it is a direct statement of our intent. We intend to act in Chicago and the surrounding metropolitan area. We intend to focus exclusively on issues that affect bicycling and bicyclists. We are a coalition of like minded individuals with these basic goals.

What We Intend

Chicago and its suburbs are lucky to be home to many committed cycling activists and advocates. There are numerous organizations with a mission to support the cyclist, and we want to support these groups in their endeavors whenever their goals line up with our own. We also want to find areas where we can make an impact and improve the mission of making our region the best place in the world to ride a bike. To this end, we do not want to duplicate the efforts of existing groups and individuals, even when we support them. We want to find specific goals that do not appear to have a current champion, and work to achieve them. Specifically, we would like to see to it that the space in the road for cyclists is safe and pleasant to ride on, as free as possible of potholes, open grates, missing pavement and other dangerous conditions. We would like to have a place to safely lock up our bikes when we arrive at our destination through the expansion of available bike racks and places dedicated in businesses and residences for the secure storage of bicycles.

What’s next?

With like minded people dedicated to active involvement in improving the city and suburbs for cyclists, we feel we can accomplish many things. We want to advocate for cycling. We want to learn from our members what they want to see us do, and we want to encourage them in doing it. To the extent that government bodies, agencies, non-profits, lobbyists, companies or individuals can assist us in these goals, we want to work with them. The only way we can fail in our efforts is to not try to make Chicagoland a better area for cycling.



Eli said:

Chicagoland Bicycle Coalition is a new organization that has taken over running the Bike Swap. They will have more details posted soon. :)

I would really love to know more about what this organization is or plans to do.

Permalink Reply by Eli on February 13, 2014 at 11:17am

Thank you!

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