Dutch Bike Co Weblog

YES WE HAVE MOVED.

 

While I might sit here and wax poetic about the urban energy that flows through our new neighborhood and how Wicker Park/Bucktown is like the heart that beats cool-as-hepcat life blood through the veins of this city I decided to skip all that and…wait a minute “Google” says we are still on Armitage?  Then never mind.  We never moved.  My mistake.  I like Lincoln Park too.

KIDDING.  Despite what Google would have you believe for the past few days, we have indeed moved our shop over to Wicker Park. Seriously, we are open for business in Wicker Park and we couldn’t be happier about it.  With all the good food, drink and entertainment in the new neighborhood it’s easy to overlook the best part of our new digs.  The bikes.  The bikes are everywhere.  Every conceivable style of bike with every conceivable style of rider.  It’s amazing.  And of course we are happy to tune-up, fix, adjust and help with all of them.

Our address is now 2010 W Pierce Ave, Chicago IL 60622.  Sorry for all the confusion.  If you have questions on where we are, how to get here or if you want to know why the theme song to the Might Morphin’ Power Rangers is a magnificent piece of music (please ask for Chris and reference “Power Rock” if you are calling about that), just give us a call at 773-697-7618.

Join us Saturday January 30th for an afternoon social ride!  It's been too long since we've left our little cave down here by the boat launch, and too long since we've seen most of you, so come on down.  Ride an Azor, a Workcycles, a bakfiets, a Christiania, a Gazelle, or something American...anything, as long as it's comfortable and fun.

We'll meet at the shop at 4, mill around for a bit, and head out west.  We'll be rolling very slowly, to facilitate talking, kids, laughing, merrymaking, goofing off, and possibly even hijinx!  Eventually we'll reach Golden Gardens, where we'll have some tasty snacks and refreshing drinks, and maybe try to ride a bakfiets on the beach.  When we feel like it, we'll ride back toward Ballard and the shop at a leisurely pace. 

If it's raining, we're still going, and we'll still be raffling off a pair of Clarijs panniers, a Nantucket basket, and a Bikecap saddle cover (pattern to be determined...I promise it won't be the creepy lace one). Five dollar entry for the raffle, and 100% of proceeds go to Haitian earthquake relief.

After that, like-minded adults are invited to join me in cruising toward points east.  Points to include: the Traveler, the George and Dragon, Sinners and Saints, and onward...

For those of you who grew up enjoying Sylvester Stallone as Rocky - and you know who you are - you'll be pleased to know that his arch-rival Apollo Creed, the smooth-voiced actor Carl Weathers is fit and busy.  He's riding a Bakfiets around Seattle and sharing a zen-like stream of non-sequiteurs, musings about change and encouragements to a variety of speechless individuals in a series of ads for the Washington State Credit Unions.   Titled "Change is Beautiful" the ads take you around town, from Gasworks to the bike trail along the the canal in Fremont, all the while with Carl making his way in our Dutch Bike Seattle Bakfiets with a bucket full of flowers.  The subtext to the ads is "change is calling" and when you watch them you will agree, change IS calling.  We just don't yet know to what it is calling us.  Stay tuned as Carl leads the way... In other media related news the Bakfiets has become the recent focus of the comic series at Yehuda Moon.