Links to the brands we sell and adore:

Bikes-

• Bianchi (nice road and street bikes, and comfy hybrid commuters)
• Redline (the 9-2-5 can't be beat)
• Surly (great track/'cross/and touring bikes and frames, as well as tough parts)
• Pashley (classic British city bikes)
• Handsome Cycles  (a beautiful homage to the XO 1)
• De Fietsfabriek (not your average Dutch city bike)
• Manhattan (mostly the Green- a simple 3-speed commuter)
• Torker (Commuters, kids' bikes and tandems)
• Soma (frames and hip cool parts)
• Lloyd Cycles
• Kaminecki Cycles (Matt helped start the shop- now he's a cheesehead )

Bikey websites-

• Bikefancy (Martha Williams' gallery of Chicago cyclists, mostly dressed all fancy)
• GridChicago (John Greenfield and Steven Vance have teamed up to keep us informed of the tranportation issues)
• VotewithYourFeet (now in smei-retirement, this is John Greenfield's travelogue. Ever wonder what it's like to walk all of Western Ave?)
• Cyclofiend (viewer submitted bike porn)
• Classicrendezvous (mmm bike porn with history lesson)
• The Chainlink (facebook for bike nerds in Chicagoland)

Clothing and Helmets-

• Louis Garneau (helmets, gloves, and winterwear)
• Endura (raingear and tights)
• Mt. Borah (tights, shorts and underwear)
• Pearl Izumi (gloves and earbands)
• Lazer (Belgian kids helmets)
• Bern (nicefitting urban helmets, winter-able)
• Kozie Prery (Logan Square made cycling caps)
• Floyd Boberg (more locally made cycling caps)

Parts and Accesories-

• Kryptonite (register your new u-locks keys here)
• Planet Bike (lights and fenders from Madison, Wi)
• Jandd (awesome racks and panniers from California)
• Basil (panniers and baskets from Holland)
• Brooks (nine out of ten shop employees use Brooks)
• Topeak (awesome pumps and baby seats)
• Kettler (all my friends use this babyseat, myself included)

Tires-

• Vittoria (woah, all white tyres? yep, and great street tyres in black red blue celeste and yellow too)
• Schwalbe (the Marathon has become our favorite tough touring tire. and they have whitewall 27's)
• Club Roost (awesome semi-knob tyre in 26x1.5, 26x2, 700x37, and 27x1 3/8!)

Shop Supplies

• Boeshield T-9 (our favorite chain lube)
• Ramco Soylent Gold (degreaser)
• Park Tools (everything)
• Pedro's (I used to swear by Park's tire levers. I'm a convert to Perdo's now)
• El Duke (locally made degreaser- can't seem to get a hold of the maker anymore :(  )

 Trailers

• B.O.B
  
• Burley
  
• Bikes-At-Work (rent ours for your next furniture pick-up or apartment move!)

These are the links I like:

• velo-orange
• sheldon brown
• Active Transportation Alliance (was the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation)