Working Bikes

Join in Chicago’s 20th annual BIKE-A-THON on Sunday, September 30th. Support projects in Central America and Colombia that address issues of education and health. Collect pledges for your ride from friends and family.

Meet at the Clock Tower just north of Addison and the Lake Bike Path before 2:00 PM (or 55th and Bike Path).

Ride 12 or 24 miles and arrive back for the Central American Fiesta with music and food!

It’s a great day biking the lakefront with Chicago’s finest school kids, young folks, and “mature” riders.

Part of the Village Recycling Extravaganza and is advertised by the Village of Lombard and Waste Management.

Location: Hammerschmidt School, 617 S. Hammerschmidt Avenue.

At DuPage Unitarian Church, located on Old Naperville road - just south of I88 off of Deihl road, east of Naperville road.

WBC coordinator: Dan Litchfield

At DuPage Unitarian Church, located on Old Naperville road - just south of I88 off of Deihl road, east of Naperville road.

WBC coordinator: TBA

We extend thanks to all who have helped the Working Bikes Co-Op succeed in its mission. The Co-Op distributes about 5500 bikes and wheelchairs a year internationally and to City programs, refugees and day camps in the Chicago area. Donated items are distributed among the local and international projects described below.

Working Bikes donates over 500 bikes a year to the following partners in Illinois:
Mayor Daley

Working Bikes would like to thank Break The Gridlock's Bike Geeks project for providing us with essential technical support and website design services as well as web-hosting on their drupal server.

With this new website we will be able to provide current information on initiatives of the Working Bikes Cooperative to volunteers, customers, partners and the media ...