"Used bike shops offer wheels at a steal"
The Working Bikes store featured in an article (hyperlink here) published by the Chicago Sun-Times , in their business section, on the upsurge in bicycling in response to high petroleum prices on Monday, June 30th 2008 ...
Consumers who want to save money on gas by riding their bikes, but don't want to break their budgets with a new set of wheels are finding used bikes a good compromise.
"Abandoned bicycles live again"
This story (hyperlink here) was reported by the Chicago Tribune in it's Features section on Sunday, May 25th 2008 ...
"Hundreds of bicycles salvaged from landfill"
Read about the trip to retrieve bikes collected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The story (hyperlink here) was reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and includes a short video.
Francis Parker Bike Drive
Francis Parker School YouTube Bike Drive video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_ply0M9N8
Pedal Power Night Soccer
Francis Parker School YouTube Night Soccer video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBK1f_Obi-o
Working Bikes on WTTW
We were on Chicago Tonight, here is the YouTube URL ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58y0qUM_ p6U
WBC makes Lawyer Jim's blog
Does everyone knows that cycling lawyer who's been a part of the Critical Mass, West Town and Chicago street racing community?
He's written an article about Working Bikes in his blog ...
http://lawyerjim.blogspot.com/2007/10/working-bikes-invaluable-chicago.html
Working Bikes up and rolling in Kenosha
http://www.kenoshanews.com/article_comments/view_comments.php?articleNum=1572030
Working Bikes up and rolling
8/19/07
Volunteer program repairs bicycles for charitable use
GARY J. KUNICH
Some were rusted shells of their former glory - a bent rim here, chipped paint and flat tire there - and others looked like they came from a different era before Game Boys, when kids put baseball cards in the spokes and sped through town.
Working Bikes booth on the news
Friends,
Check out young William Toepher at the Working Bikes
booth at the Earth Day Celebration in Daley Plaza.
http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=93236
Of course this is only a small segment of William's
interview with NBC.
There's a short commercial before the segment begins. Look for the spinning globe.
Nick's Worldview interview
MP3 of Nick's recent interview on NPR's Worldview, running time just under 13 minutes.
