The over-arching goals of West Town Bikes are to promote bicycling in the city of Chicago, to educate youth with a focus on under-served populations, and to foster and serve Chicago's growing bicycling community. While maintaining headquarters and a workspace in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, WTB is a city-wide service provider for youth programs in the city of Chicago.

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Thanks for your interest. If you want to contact us, email info@westtownbikes.org, call 773-772-6523 or stop by. Note that we do not put our youth programs on the calendar but you can find events, donation based classes and workshops there.

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Photo courtesy of SnowyMountain Photography.

Cyclocross!!!
The race season has started and WTB had a great showing at the first Chicago Cyclocross Cup race. Here is our schedule for the season. Practice and meetings happen every Wednesday. These are the races we are trying to attend or have attended this season. Juniors age 15-18 race at 10:20AM and 9-14 at 11:12AM. Participants meet at the shop and travel as a group. All races on Sunday unless otherwise noted.

September
9/28 Caldwell Woods hosted by xXx Racing in Chicago

October
10/12 Dan Ryan Woods hosted by Beverly Bike Vee-Pak in Chicago
10/26 ABD Sunrise Park hosted by Athletes By Design in Bartlett

November
11/16 Hilton Indian Lakes Resort hosted by the South Chicago Wheelman in Bloomingdale

December
12/7 Montrose Harbor – The Illinois State Championship hosted by Ten27 Cycles and Spidermonkey at Montrose Harbor
Possible but not likely 12/14/2014 – Midwest Regional CX Championships hosted by Tailwind Racing at John Ball Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan
12/20 SATURDAY –The Afterglow hosted by Chicago Cuttin Crew and Robots <3 in Douglas Park

January
Possible but not likely 1/9/15 – 1/12/15 – US CX National Championships in Austin, Texas

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Tour de Fat raised $30,000 for West Town Bikes!

New Belgium put on our favorite festival and raised a bunch of money for West Town Bikes. Thanks to everyone, especially the hundreds of volunteers, that joined us in Palmer Square for music, bikes, beer, local food and bemusement. The event started off with a torrential downpour that flooded a lot of the park but at 12:30 the skies cleared and people started coming out.

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Bike Mechanics classes and Open Shops
Bikes that work correctly are more fun to ride. Keep your bike tuned up! Check out our Calendar filled with classes. Open Shop is every Tuesday and Saturday. Every Wednesday from 7PM-10 is Women and Trans Night. Contact Michael Young at 312-656-1953 or michael@westtownbikes.org if you have any questions about our classes.