Cycling Links

CM Links:

• Critical Mass Hub--A list of CM rides around the world.

Chicago Links:

• Break the Gridlock is a Chicago-based organization dedicated to supporting Chicago area grass roots groups whose goals help promote right transportation and reducing dependence on automobiles.
• bikechicago.info--This web page has WAY many more bike links than ours, so dive into the infinite cyclespace that awaits you.
• Cycling Sisters--The Cycling Sisters is a women's cycling group in Chicago. Our mission is to increase the number of women who ride bicycles for transportation, and to increase the confidence and comfort of women cyclists. We hold regular workshops on bicycle maintenance and repair, as well as rides, social get-togethers and other activities. Check out the event calendar.
• Bike Winter--With the proper gear and a little determination, you can continue to enjoy bicycling year round. Add in the comraderie of hundreds of riders and dozens of exciting events and you've got Bike Winter!
  Each winter, bicyclists in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison, and now Ann Arbor, MI! hold events to promote winter bike riding. By taking part in Bike Winter, you will have the opportunity to have fun, socialize with other cyclists, and learn winter biking skills.
• Auto Show Shutdown--First staged in 1999, the Chicago Auto Show SHUTDOWN Festival is the largest auto show counter-propaganda event in North America and has been held more times than any other anti-auto exposition on the continent. 2007 marks the 8th edition of the festival.
• West Town Bikes is a community bicycle learning workshop. WTB offers bicycle mechanics workshops, youth programs and special events to members of the community. WTB is also used as a creative workspace for special bicycle building, utilitarian human powered design, kinetic art, advocacy projects and all sorts of constructive creation. WTB is proud to have become a hub of bicycle activity in Chicago!
• The Chicago Community Bike Project is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organization dedicated to bicycling self-sufficiency for communities and individuals. Bikes are socially, environmentally and physically the healthiest and most efficient means of urban transportation; bikes improve everyone's quality of life. Knowing how to fix and maintain one's own bike makes bicycling an affordable and empowering transportation option; DIY improves everyone's quality of bike.
• Working Bikes is a not-for-profit cooperative which diverts bicycles from the waste stream in Chicago by repairing them for sale and charity. All its operations are funded through the sale of bicycles at its storefront. Working Bikes uses that money to provide bicycles to charity organizations within Chicagoland and to ship bicycles to the Gulf Coast, Cuba, Guatemala, Ecuador, and many other places of need.
• The UIC College of Cycling is a group of UIC students, faculty, and staff coming together to promote the use of bicycles for transportation.
• Northeastern Illinois University Bike Club
• The Recyclery is a community bike project based in South Evanston.