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Comment by Alan Lloyd on March 14, 2018 at 9:23am

Extended hours, now open ...

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 11am - 7pm

Saturday: 10am - 6pm & Sunday: 11am - 4pm

Comment by Alan Lloyd on March 8, 2018 at 7:21am

Check out the new Working Bikes web-store at https://store.WorkingBikes.org

Comment by P Kon on August 18, 2016 at 4:45pm

I want to thank the volunteers and staff at Working Bikes for teaching me how to refurbish and tune up bicycles.  I'm finally feeling comfortable with properly adjusting front and rear derailers.

I'm enjoying the volunteer times spent at WB because of all the great people there including the customers who always have great bicycle stories.

Having earned from WB, and working on, a Personal Project Bike is a huge plus.  Its a 1993 Trek Antelope.  I've put well over 30 hours (a whole lot of it at home) of making mistakes and then correcting them.  I would never have started something like this if it weren't for the support given at WB.
Got myself a great new used bike and the satisfaction of perhaps delivering hundreds of bikes to people needing them locally and around the world.

I'm looking forward to the time when I donate the Trek Antelope back to Working Bikes and get myself another Personal Project bike - just for the fun of rebuilding and riding it.

Comment by Alan Lloyd on December 3, 2013 at 7:57am

Bjorn: you are always welcome to come along and volunteer, see the www.WorkingBikes.org web-site for details - or, tomorrow, we are filling a container with bikes bound for Ghana!

Comment by Skip Tooth on December 3, 2013 at 5:55am

Hello,

I would like to pledge my support to Working Bikes and all of their brilliance and efforts.  

Thank you,

bjorn

Comment by Amanda on January 27, 2013 at 5:30pm

I have to say that overall I was really unimpressed with the Chicago Winter Bike Swap (I was looking for parts for a build I am working on), but meeting your staff at the booth saved the whole experience. i would love to volunteer at Working Bikes. Thanks for all you do! 

Comment by Juan Primo on November 15, 2012 at 10:29am

Whereabouts? Is it two blocks north, south, east or west of Working Bikes. In that area, two blocks makes a big difference.

What neighborhood? Pilsen?

Comment by Paul Fitz, Scrabblor on April 7, 2011 at 6:39pm

Working Bikes Inaugural Service Department Opens Wednesday, April 13!

That's right, for the first time in its history, Working Bikes is opening a full service repair shop, to do everything from flat fixes and spoke replacements to full tune-ups and overhauls.

New Hours for Sales and Service!
Wednesday 12 -7
Thursday 12 - 7
Friday 12 - 5
Saturday 12 - 5 

The new Service Department features a staff of highly skilled and professionally trained bicycle mechanics, with years and years of experience working with new and used bikes, to help get your bicycle running just like new. 

Stop in and say hello to our friendly and courteous staff, and let us help you find exactly what it is you're looking for. Working Bikes' mechanics work on a much larger variety of bicycles, from over a much longer timespan than most bike mechanics do. Because of this we're a great resource for diagnosing problems and finding parts for old, obsolete or vintage bikes. 

But we're also more than capable of helping repair or troubleshoot issues with new bikes, single speed and fixed gear conversions, high end road and mountain bikes, or really anything pedal-powered.

Come visit the new Working Bikes!

Comment by Paul Fitz, Scrabblor on January 13, 2011 at 5:51pm

REGISTER NOW FOR *BUILD A WORKING BIKE* 8 WEEK CLASS -BEGINS 1/24/11-

Ever wanted to build your own bicycle from the ground up?  "Build-a-Working Bike" is an 8 week course beginning Jan 24, 2011that offers just that opportunity for beginning and intermediate bicycle mechanics.  

 

Class will meet every Monday evening in the Working Bikes shop space at 2434 S. Western from 6pm-9pm. Participants will choose a bicycle from our warehouse space to fully refurbish. Over the course of the program we will go over everything from deciding on a bike that's right for you, changing tires, overhauling bearing assemblies, and truing wheels. Upon completion, bikes can be bought for 50% of the working bikes selling rate with accompanying parts (upgrades are welcome, but will be priced accordingly).   

 

When: Every Monday from Jan 24th - March 21st (8 weeks, with a week break for Valentine's Day) 6-9pm

Where: Working Bikes at 2434 S. Western

Tuition: $150 (+cost of bike, if buying)

Questions?  Wanna register?

Email Paul Fitzgerald at Paul@workingbikes.org

Comment by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on November 27, 2010 at 3:36pm

Recent Forum Discussions:

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/the-awesomeness-of-working

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/working-bikes-thanks-all

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