Bike to Work Week Events: free coffee, Clif Bars, movies, and more!

Join or renew your membership at one of our Bike to Work Week Pit Stops and get this sweet t-shirt FREE:

We want to celebrate your two-wheeled commute!

Fuel up with free Clif Bars and Caribou Coffee, and get a free safety check - or just some air or lube - at a Bike Pit Stop during Bike to Work Week, June 9–15! Bike Pit Stops are located throughout the city of Chicago and the suburbs - find one near you!

 

 

 

BIKE PIT STOPS AND BIKE TO WORK WEEK EVENTS, 2012

*denotes suburban location

Bike Pit Stops

Other Bike to Work Week Events

Mon-Fri, June 11–15
*Bartlett Metra station, 6–8:30 a.m. (map it) (Coffee available all week, full pit stop monday and Wednesday)

Monday, June 11
1337 N. Wells Street (Village Cycle at Evergreen Avenue), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

Blue Island Avenue and Roosevelt Road (S.E. corner), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

Millennium Park Bike Station (239 East Randolph St), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

Northbrook Metra station, 6:30–8 a.m. (map it)

2313 N Milwaukee Ave (Cafe Mustache) 6:30-9 a.m. (map it)

2016 W Roscoe (Roscoe Village Bikes), 5:30-7:30 p.m. (map it)

Tuesday, June 12
3201 S. Halsted Street (Blue City Cycles in Bridgeport), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

*Elmhurst Metra station, 6:30–8:30 a.m. (map it)

*Joliet, Union Station 6–8 a.m. (map it)

North Shore Channel Trail at Foster Avenue, 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

South Lakefront Trail at Museum Campus, 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

*Wheaton Metra station, 6:30–8:30 a.m. (map it)

*Wilmette Metra station, 6:30–8 a.m. (map it)

1908 W Chicago Ave. (Comrade Cycles), 6:30-9 a.m. (map it)

1520 E 57th St (University of Chicago), 6:30-9 a.m. (map it)

Wednesday, June 13
Ashland Avenue, Division Street and Milwaukee Avenue (Polish Triangle), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

*Des Plaines Metra station, 6:30–8 a.m. (map it)

*Downers Grove Metra station, 6:30–8:30 a.m. (map it)

Lincoln Avenue, Clark Street and Wells Street (near Green City Market), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

*Midlothian Metra station, 6–8 a.m. (map it)

*Villa Park Metra station, 6-8 a.m. (map it)

Huron and Fairbanks, NE Corner (Northwestern Univeristy) 7-9 a.m. (map it)

*Jacobs Center, 2001 Sheridan Rd, Evanston (Northwestern University), 3:30-5:30 p.m. (map it)

North Lakefront Path, Ardmore and Sheridan, 5-7p.m. (map it)

Thursday, June 14
1466 N. Halsted St. (REI), 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

*Arlington Heights Metra station, 6:30–8 a.m. (map it)

North Lakefront Trail at Fullerton Parkway, 6:30–9 a.m. (map it)

* 9575 W Higgins Road (Christopher Burke Engineering) 6:30-8:30 a.m. (map it)

2459 W. Division St. (West Town Bikes), 6:30-9 a.m. (map it)

Friday, June 15
*Elmhurst Metra station, 6:30–8:30 a.m. (map it)

*Evanston, Davis Street Metra and L station, 6:30–8 a.m. (map it)

*Oak Lawn Metra station, 6 a.m.–8 a.m. (map it)

Saturday, June 9
 *American Chartered Bank in Bartlett (388 S. Main St.),
9 a.m. (map it)
Distribution of Bike to Work Week information
9:30 a.m
25-mile Bartlett Bicycle Tour 

Streets for Cycling Plan 2020 Open House
77 S. Dearborn -- building lobby
Saturday, June 9, 2012
10 a.m.–4 p.m. 

Second annual Cargo Bike Roll Call & Happy Hour
2459 W. Division St. (West Town Bikes), 6-11p.m. (map it)
Meet other people who ride and like cargo bikes!

Mon-Thu, June 11-14
 Spinning Alfreso
FREE outdoor spin classes at Cloud Gate in Millennium Park. (map it)
Space is limited to 20 per class.

Monday, June 11
Bike Shorts
 Screening of a collection of short bicycle films from all over the world. 
Goose Island Brewpub, 1800 N. Clybourn (map it)
6 pm

Tuesday, June 12
 Screening of Pee-wee's Big Adventure and finalists for The Chainlink's "Bike it Everywhere, Chicago" video PSA contest
Millennium Park Great Lawn (map it)
Dusk

Wednesday, June 13
Streets for Cycling Lecture
Come hear about the Chicago Department of Transportation's exciting plans to encourage biking in Chicago in 2012.
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater (map it)
Noon 

Bikes & Barbeque Happy Hour
 2959 North Lincoln Ave (Heritage Cycles & General Store), 5-8 p.m. (map it)

Thursday, June 14
 *Illinois Prairie Path at Spring Road in Elmhurst, 7 a.m. (map it)
Ride to work with DuPage County Chairman Dan Cronin

Loop Bike Tour
Free 2-hour mini-bike tour of the Loop 
Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park (map it)
6:30 pm

Friday, June 15
 Bike to Work Day Rally
 Daley Plaza, 7:30–9:30 a.m. (map it)

Bike Away from Work
 *Blue Island Metra station, 5 p.m. (map it)

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 8, 2012 at 7:51am

Yay!  Swag!

 

Permalink Reply by daWillinChi on June 11, 2012 at 5:11am

I didn't know about this either, but I'll stop by later today, though :)

Active Transportation Alliance said:

You can still pick up shirts at our office, Melanie! Thanks for signing up!

Ethan, Active Trans

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on June 11, 2012 at 7:05am

I'll have to eyeball another stop for the way home even if it means going 4 miles out of my way.  The stop this morning was fun and the folks were great.  They had coffee and treats -but little swag other than water bottles.  I still have 2344 water bottles from the past years and maybe I don't need to hoard any more -so I passed on that.

Would love some more stickers and stuff like that for my tool box collection.

Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on June 11, 2012 at 7:20am

That is a major bummer! Chris, email me ethan @ activetrans.org and we'll arrange for you to get a goody bag this year, so sorry about your headset!

Ethan Spotts, Active Trans



Chris C said:

Schwag-less and bitching.

 

I started a team at work for the Bike Commuter Challenge.  Went around and cajoled, threatened and shamed others into joining.  Even got two first-timers to sign up.  The big week of the BCC finally arrives and where is the team leader?  I'm driving my car to work.  Why? Because my headset jammed up last Friday on my ride home.  LBS has to order a replacement.

 

Yeah. At least the guys at my LBS appreciated the irony.

 

Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on June 11, 2012 at 7:20am

We're working on it, James, maybe next year...it all depends on sponsorship and donations for us.

Thanks for rocking the stops,

Ethan, Active Trans



James BlackHeron said:

I'll have to eyeball another stop for the way home even if it means going 4 miles out of my way.  The stop this morning was fun and the folks were great.  They had coffee and treats -but little swag other than water bottles.  I still have 2344 water bottles from the past years and maybe I don't need to hoard any more -so I passed on that.

Would love some more stickers and stuff like that for my tool box collection.

Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on June 11, 2012 at 9:31am

Like!

Chris C said:

Thanks for the offer Ethan but no need.  My headset is due Tue or Wed so I should be in Schwagsville by midweek.

Active Transportation Alliance said:

That is a major bummer! Chris, email me ethan @ activetrans.org and we'll arrange for you to get a goody bag this year, so sorry about your headset!

Ethan Spotts, Active Trans



Chris C said:

Schwag-less and bitching.

 

I started a team at work for the Bike Commuter Challenge.  Went around and cajoled, threatened and shamed others into joining.  Even got two first-timers to sign up.  The big week of the BCC finally arrives and where is the team leader?  I'm driving my car to work.  Why? Because my headset jammed up last Friday on my ride home.  LBS has to order a replacement.

 

Yeah. At least the guys at my LBS appreciated the irony.

 

Permalink Reply by Scotto 6.8 on June 13, 2012 at 4:55am

Question for ATA; if I join ATA at the Bike to Work Rally, do I get the sweet T-Shirt?  I don't see a pit stop that will be convenient to my commute the rest of the week.

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on June 13, 2012 at 4:58am

It's too bad that the grand finale Rally doesn't start a little bit earlier.  Those of us embarking on Le Tour de Shore will be missing out on it Friday morning unless we leave a little later :(

Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on June 13, 2012 at 5:06am

If we have them available, Scott, they're going like hotcakes this week! We do have some cool back up shirts, if we are running low.

Hope you get one,

Ethan, Active Trans



Scott H said:

Question for ATA; if I join ATA at the Bike to Work Rally, do I get the sweet T-Shirt?  I don't see a pit stop that will be convenient to my commute the rest of the week.

Permalink Reply by Madopal (16.5 mi) on June 13, 2012 at 5:55am

Ethan, my company signed up late, and I just emailed the commuter address, but thought I'd ask here.  I can probably get to either the north end LFP pit stop today or the one at Fullerton tomorrow AM.  Is there a chance they'll still have leader packets at those?  And if not, can I still possibly get a leader packet at your office on Friday?  I'm heading down to the rally, so I should be able to stop by after that if the stuff would be avail.

BTW, we're (Raw Thrills) chasing you guys.  Tomorrow we could crack 40% participation.  You'd better get those 19 riders going by Friday!

Also, some feedback: there seems to be confusion on the challenge site over what a "commute" is.  Even though you list round trip for mileage, I'm seeing lots of people on other teams logging each leg of a commute as a separate commute.  Perhaps there's some way next year you can make that clearer on how to log it on the site?

Permalink Reply by Melanie K on June 13, 2012 at 6:08am

Actually, I noticed there was a slight glitch which may have already been corrected on the site regarding the roundtrip commute- it was showing my commutes twice, so I had to go in and delete one of them as it looked like I was doing double the mileage.  This didn't happen today, but it happened on Monday and Tuesday. 

Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on June 13, 2012 at 9:21am

Madopal, we will have team leader packets at the rest of the pit stops and the Rally (also at our office).

Thanks to you and Melanie for passing on the reporting feedback. We had a wonderful volunteer who built the system for us this year and we're still making some tweaks. I'll pass this on.

Happy bike to work week!

Thanks,

Ethan, Active Trans

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