Working Bikes Cooperative
Score wheels for cheap and do good at the same time. Working Bikes offers a win-win-win situation: volunteers rescue old bikes destined for the landfill, fix and sell some to locals for green transportation, then use profits to ship the rest to co-ops in Africa and Latin America. Their spacious new digs in Little Village feature dozens of refurbished road, cruiser and mountain cycles, plus a vast selection of parts, frames and forks—a bike choppers’ delight. Brush up your mechanic skills by volunteering with WBC—they can always use help tackling the hundreds of fixer-uppers on the second floor.
2434 South Western
(312)421-5048
workingbikes.org
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Working Bikes
Best of Chicago 2009