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A photo project that tells the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city. Sign up for an interview or read all our work at chiwho.bike!
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And here's our flashback Friday! Check out our fourth ever interview from last fall - here's a snippet: “I got this bike three years ago, as of last month, and I would not have this bike if it wasn’t for the Chicago biking community on Twitter.” chiwho.bike/interviews/4

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Want to hear more from last week's guest? We just published our full conversation, where we talk more about the joys of riding around Chicago, finding community in biking, and even.... biking down a sledding hill! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRg...

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It's Flashback Friday! Take a look at our third ever Chicagoans Who Bike interview. Here's a snippet: “One of the things I hear from a lot of people is they think biking it’s about fun, it’s about exercise, and it’s like, no, this is legitimate transportation.” chiwho.bike/interviews/3

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“I've been biking my whole life. My parents were really into mountain biking, so I grew up into it and started racing mountain bikes when I was 13, and I did a lot of racing all throughout high school, but then kind of stopped when I went to college.” 🧵

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It's Flashback Friday! Check out our second ever interview, from last summer. Here's a snippet: “This bike is about 33 years old... I’ve never spent more than $350 on a bike, but people think you have to have all of this gear and special stuff and you really don’t.” chiwho.bike/interviews/2

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We just published our video conversation with last week's interviewee, where he talked about he bikes in winter, how bike safety has improved, and how Chicago's aldermanic system can fragment bike lanes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVA...

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It's flashback Friday! We've been interviewing folks biking around Chicago for over a year, so we're going to start re-posting our old interviews (in order) on Fridays, so new folks can see them! First up ChiWhoBike #1, a dad who loves biking with his daughter: chiwho.bike/interviews/1

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“This is my winter bike. It's an old Bridgestone MB-5 that I bought off of Facebook marketplace, because I didn't want to destroy a nice bike in the salt. I put on some nicer handle handlebars and some good grips, but overall I haven't really done much to it, unlike my other two bikes.” 🧵

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“I'm a single mom and I don't drive, and I suffered for a long time in Chicago without a car, like lugging groceries around in a tiny bike basket or on the bus or train. And finally decided I wanted to invest in a proper bike for moving stuff around, including kids, all of her friends. . .”

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We don't just see hauling precious cargo in Chicago winter, we also see our sticker! 👀

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We have one last video from this past week's interview - a conversation biking around Chicago's beautiful South Side Beverly neighborhood! We talked about the power of ebikes, the lack of safe bike infrastructure in Chicago's 19th ward, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLk...

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We've done two interviews with Divvy users, and they both loved the convenience! This gentleman owns two bikes, and still loves Divvy: chiwho.bike/interviews/56

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We've got our video with last week's interview up! He lives in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, and talked about the lack of protected bike lanes in his area, why he got his cargo bike, and a whole lot more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vU...

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Hi new followers! 👋 We joined BlueSky a few months ago, but as of January 2025, we have 67 interviews, all live on our website, chiwho.bike, but that's not all... 🧵

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Streetsblog Chicago covers transit and bike issues far more than any outlet, and they were the first Chicago outlet to cover us! If you can support their fundraiser, absolutely do so to keep this great local journalism going strong.

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