the recyclery

We hope you’re all doing well as we transition into colder weather!

Upcoming Holiday Hours:

We are closed for Thanksgiving; Wednesday the 24th through Sunday the 28th of November. Normal hours will resume starting Monday, November 29.

COVID Safety:

We have an important announcement. As we move Open Shop inside for the winter we are extending our vaccination requirement to patrons. We ask that ALL PATRONS BE FULLY VACCINATED IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN OPEN SHOP ON SUNDAYS. For the safety of all participants, patrons working alongside others for a prolonged period of time should be taking the same precautions as our staff, collective members, and volunteers.

Please be prepared to show your vaccination card on Sundays. The Recyclery requires everyone in the shop to be fully vaccinated and masked at all times. Please help us stay safe while providing the community with an important resource.

Classes:

Now, on to lighter news…The Recyclery has successfully resumed teaching a limited amount of bicycle maintenance classes! Tune-Up and Overhaul Classes are offered on our Big Cartel site, fall classes are full, but stay tuned for announcements on our upcoming winter sessions! Email info@therecyclery.org to receive announcements.

Social Fun:

The Active Transportation Alliance is hosting the online Bicycle Film Festival – Chicago, which will be screening films online from Nov. 19th-28th. If you are interested in attending, you can find out more information or get tickets here:

 
https://btt.boldtypetickets.com/events/115655097/bicycle-film-festival-chicago-2

To celebrate Halloween and enjoy the pleasant weather, several collective members, volunteers, and community members took a ride through the Rogers Park, Edgewater, and Uptown neighborhoods. We stopped by a few cemeteries and visited a few folks along the way, including our friends from the P.O. Box Collective and a final stop at R Public House.

Thanks everyone who joined us for this festive fall outing! Keep an eye out for future rides and activities posted on our website, our instagram, and our strava club!

This year is our 15th year since we opened in an Evanston Basement.  It was a very different year, but we are still committed to our community. In 2020, we distributed 151 Freecyclery Bike. We installed a new bike corral on Paulina. We beautified potholes with mosaic art across Rogers Park.

In celebration of all that we accomplished and all that we plan to do, we have launched our annual Tailwind for Tools fundraiser. Thus far we have already raised over $3,800 towards our goal of $10,000!

All the donations will go to helping keep our shop staffed and running through this hard winter. We are getting our shop ready to serve the community as soon as it is safe to be together again. Please donate below.

In years past we have hosted an Open House to bring our community together in celebration in our shared space. This year will be a bit different but we are still planning a slate of remote activities to engage our volunteers, patrons and community from the past two decades, and hopefully we will welcome new members interested in community biking. Stay tuned for updates about online events, we look forward to celebrating our wonderful community through a series of on-line events in the coming weeks.

Donate to Tailwind For Tools Here or directly to the shop here.