It’s Bike to Work Week in Chicago and that means it’s time to give a couple shout outs.
First to Rapid Transit Cycles, for being cool and smart and polite. I chatted with one of the owners today, and I highly recommend them for … well anything. They helped me attach non-regulation baskets to the bike (phone support!) and were my source for new helmets. Now that they have an outpost near my office, I’ll be hitting up that instead of Kozys. Nothing against Kozys, mind you! But RTC is that down-home feeling.
Second is to a good web-resource, BikeCommuters.com. The reason I pimp them is that when you’re new to this whole Bike to Work thing, it’s hard to sort out what you need and what you don’t. Finding people who are doing it, same as you, and face the same issues (showers, smelling good, weather, etc) is a gold mine.
By the way, the official Chicago site is at the ActiveTrans website, which has a remarkable ability to crash or just be unavailable on many occasions. They need a better host/server.