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Greg Borzo - July 26th, 2011

Cycling related websites for those in the Chicago area.

  • Active Transportation Alliance - preeminent member-based bicycle advocacy organization that organizes major rides and events
  • Bike and Roll - offers fun, easy and safe bike tours in your favorite cities. Learn about the history, see the sites, take lots of photos, and make new friends. Both daytime and nighttime bicycle rides for the whole family.
  • Bike Boulevards Now - grassroots advocacy group committed to getting bike boulevards built in Chicago by 2011
  • Bike Chicago - the city of Chicago's official bike site, offering information, events and services
  • Bike Shop Directory - directory of Chicagoland bike shops with services and reviews
  • Bike Winter - support, networking, events and resources to encourage cold-weather biking in the Chicago metro area
  • Biking the Boulevards with Geoffrey Baer, a new sightseeing program from the ever popular Geoffrey Baer of WTTW Channel 11 TV fame.
  • Blackstone Bicycle Works - community organization that engages local youth to learn basic bike skills, how to repair bikes and how to face entrepreneurial challenges.
  • Bobby’s Bike Hike offers group tours and bike rentals. Sit back, relax, and leave the planning to them. They treat all groups as VIPs and provide quality service with attention to detail.
  • Break the Gridlock - organization dedicated to promoting appropriate transportation through grassroots efforts
  • The Chicago "L" - history of the Chicago "L" - Chicago's biggest "mover & shaker" by Greg Borzo, published by Arcadia Publishing.
  • Chicago Critical Mass - The unofficial website of Chicago's Critical Mass ride, which starts at Daley Plaza the last Friday of every month at 5:30 p.m.
  • Chicago Transit Authority - local bike-friendly transit agency
  • CTA Tattler - news and views related to the Chicago Transit Authority
  • The Chain Link - Chicago-based social networking site related to bikes, offering news and event listings
  • Chicago Cycling Club - local club offering rides, meetings and events
  • Cycling Sisters - women's cycling group aimed at increasing the number of women bike for transportation, and to increase the confidence and comfort of women cyclists.
  • Grid Chicago - a new blog about sustainable transportation in Chicago by John Greenfield (author of Vote With Your Feet and contributor to area web media and newspapers) and Steven Vance (author of Steven Can Plan).
  • Major Taylor Association - friends of Major Taylor
  • Major Taylor Cycling Club Chicago.
  • The McDonald's Cycle Center at Millennium Park, which offers bicycle commuters secure bike parking, showers and lockers, and bike repairs and rentals.
  • Metra - regional bike-friendly rail transit system
  • Momentum, The Magazine for Self-Propelled People - magazine devoted to practical, urban cycling with a Chicago section
  • Mr. Bike - Dave Glowacz, author of Urban Bikers' Tricks & Tips, offers information about riding, buying and enjoying bikes
  • PACE - suburban bike-friendly bus transit system.
  • Pedal Power Book - A description of the book Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life by Harry Wray, who wrote the Foreword to Where to Bike Chicago.
  • The Recyclery - collective that builds community by restoring, donating and selling discarded and donated bicycles.
  • Spokes Magazine - voice of the mid-Atlantic cycling community for 25 years.
  • Thought You Knew's Chicago pin-up bicycle calendars (yes, one for guys and one for girls).
  • Videos posted by World Bicycle Relief.
  • Vote with Your Feet - John Greenfield's lively blog about biking in Chicago
  • West Town Bikes - community-based bicycle learning workshop, offering bike mechanic workshops, youth programs and special events
  • Working Bikes Cooperative - repairs discarded bikes for local donation and sale to help fund the overseas donation of additional bicycles
  • World Bicycle Relief - Chicago-based organization that provides bikes and support to people in need around the world