The overreaching 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 West Town neighborhood, WTB has become a city-wide service provider for youth programs in the city of Chicago. Check out a great article on our new shop and youth programs recently published in mode>>shift.

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September 12th Urban Assault Ride will be coming to Chicago! Proceeds from the event will go to supporting youth programs at West Town Bikes. We need volunteers to make sure the event goes well. If you are interested in VOLUNTEERING please click here and help us! If you're interested in riding the race Sept 12th please ride register online .

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Thank you for all the support this summer! We have a new beautiful mural in our alley, and thanks to the community's support we were able to purchase a hand-cycle for Ruben Daniels! He is an assistant teacher for West Town Bikes’ youth programs and uses his hand-cycle to accompany kids on group rides through-out the city.

Thank you for contributing support for our important work of promoting personal independence and healthy transportation for our community! To see more pictures of our summer youth programs check our flickr!

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The Chicago Reader named West Town Bikes as the "Best Place to Restore Your Own Bike" in it's 2010 Best of Chicago issue. Read more about it here!

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Thank you to all who attended the 2010 Tour de Fat in Chicago! A very special thanks to all of our volunteers who made it happen and helped raise over $20,000 for West Town Bikes and the community programs that we offer. Thank you to Alderman Rey Colon, the residents of Logan Square, the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, the Logan Square Chamber of Commerce, Open Streets and of course New Belgium Brewing Company for another fantastic festival!

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We've Grown!

West Town Bikes has expanded it's facilities to better serve the community. You can help us to continue to grow our programs by donating to West Town Bikes and spreading the word.

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West Town Bikes is hiring! We need someone from the community to help us with bookkeeping and office management starting in the next few months. Please check our job description for Office Manager and spread the word.

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Check out our Calendar of Events for a full schedule of our classes and workshops including upcoming DIY Tune-Up and Wheel Building classes. Sign up now, spaces are filling up quick!

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Find out more about our new shop, Ciclo Urbano at www.ciclourbanochicago.com.

West Town Bikes is excited to announce the opening of our new sales shop:

CICLO URBANO

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