Such a beautiful day, decided to tow my ride home from the bike shop. Finally getting my fork looked at, I think it’s been seized since I bought this cargo bike.

Stopped by Bike Talk HQ while I was in LA and chatted with the homies. 🤗

We did the math and we put 40k miles on it since we moved to Chicago 6yrs ago which comes out to about 6,500 miles per year, almost exclusively driving out of town to visit the in-laws.

Happy #NoCarDay to us!! We’ve officially UPgraded from a 1 car family to a 0 car family, albeit temporarily, but still celebrating for these next few months. Rented out the 18 to celebrate! 🎉

King of bike souvenirs while traveling remains undefeated. Got this work of art at LA Golden Bike Shop. 🧵 Highlights from our long weekend in Long Beach/LA

¡Perfecto! Horchata y musica

Yesterday on our train ride from a flea market at ROW DTLA we met this awesome mother and her daughter from Compton who said we gotta check out the Alameda swap market so we’re back on a train. ¡Los Angeles para todos!

It’s 60 degrees and ppl are wearing winter coats and scarves. People in LA are so unserious.

TLDW: “I can drive drunk because I have a Tesla” We’re so cooked.

Happening soon Chicago! Dress for the cold

Had an absolute blast at January Critical Mass tonight!! Enjoy this gallery of all my favorite pictures! 🧵

Everyone dress up as your favorite Catherine O’Hara character at Mass tonight. 😢 RIP

We’ve got a jam packed schedule for the next few days in the thick of winter here in the Windy City. We’ve added a home buyout for Monday so 5 days of riding FOR our community, WITH our community. ✊🏽🚲❤️ #BikeChi

Details for the memorial ride for Alex Pretti in Chicago this weekend. - Meet at 1:15pm, Roll at 1:30pm - John Walsh Park (E end of The 606) - Route to come, we will roll @ party pace (casual, no drop) toward the VA on Damen where a memorial is set up for Alex. See you Saturday.

I participated in my first Point in Time count in Chicago last night (did one in Indy ages ago) and I’m happy to report we found nobody. I’m hoping anyone experiencing homelessness is somewhere warm these next few days. It’s dangerous out there.

Do you think Chicago will ever have a mayor that thinks this is unacceptable, preventable, and that actually does something about these tragedies? #ThereAreNoAccidents #ZeroVision

My last Christmas tree of the season was The Final Boss. Was I scared? Of course I was. Did I think of quitting? Not even once. 🌲

First buyout of the year wut wut 🎉

Headed off the ground for now. Minneapolis graffiti game goes hard.

‼️Achievement Unlocked‼️ Hauling a Christmas tree with a non-cargo ebike in the rain 🦾 🌲

My card was rejected at the gates bc I forgot to reload (don’t lecture me about auto), so I stepped aside to load more on the app and a CTA worker saw me and told me to go ahead and scanned me in. Heroes. 🫡

A new personal record, 5 trees! I think that’s my max. The battery assist made it a breeze! 🦾🚲🌲 #TreeChi

Dentist says I need a night guard and quoted me $800. Just made an appointment in Mexico in the “Dental Tourism Capital of the World”, my quote is $85. 🇲🇽

My 2nd season hauling Christmas trees to recycle for my neighbors. It’s a “pay what you want” model where proceeds go to support street vendors. Tomorrow my goal is to haul 5! 🦾🚲🌲

Private chauffeur to our train for our last date night of the holiday break. 💅

I also heard he’s been taking transit/taxi to everything. Just like Brandon’s inauguration where his convoy of SUVs parked in the bike lanes.

Welp. We almost made it to the end of the year without any major incidents. Weather report: lakefront trail is icy. Bike report: rode home. Care package report: delivered. Human report: home and thawing. Still better than driving. 😎

Last night was the last home buyout of 2025. It was a cold one but 4 brave souls biked across Chicago to pickup 250 tamales and distribute them to folks on the street. That’s over $5k and 1,780 tamales in the last 2 weeks alone. Stay tuned for our 2025 wrapped!!

Boxing Day? More like Tamale Day! 730 tamales bought from local street vendors to fill community fridges and feed homies on the street. Best part: one of the vendors gave us some free samples to enjoy. That’s community. This is mutual aid. This is #BikeChi ✊🏽

Spent Christmas Eve evening with some of my #BikeChi family, packing up 150 cheesecakes and riding around the city, passing them out to neighbors on the street and community fridges for some last minute Christmas cheer 🎅🏽🫶🏽🚲🍰

Hey #BikeChi, what was your shortest and longest Divvy ride and was it the same ride???

Experienced once again the incredible urbanism that is Oz 😍 1 - bikes 1 - trains 1 - brooms 1 - bubbles 0 - cars

Tuesday continued with purchases of 680 tamales, we filled every community fridge we could find and lots of hungry Chicagoans on our rides home. My favorite part is that every buyout is a new combination of cyclists from the beautiful #BikeChi community. ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲 Tonight is 150 cheesecakes 🍰

Can’t stop, won’t stop. While traversing through the Loop, spotted a vendor with her nina. Bought her out. She asked if I could help her friends. She called 2 more little ninos from different corners. Bought them out. Spotted another candy vendor, bought her out. ✊🏽🫶🏽

Last night we picked up 10 dozen tamales and lots of snacks and drinks and passed them out all over Little Village and Pilsen, stopping by one of our favorite Love Fridges. Tonight we pick up 680 tamales from Hermosa/Belmont Cragin as our Christmas Giveaway Rides continue!

While we all might be checked out in the office this week, #BikeChi is LOCKED IN on the community. We have over $5,000 in home buyouts scheduled this week all across Chicago which includes: ✅ 1,780 tamales ✅ 150 cheesecakes ✅ 155 misc snacks and drinks Ride Bikes. Spread Joy.

250 burritos, water, care packages, blankets, winter hats, feminine hygiene products - all delivered via bike in the middle of a beautiful Chicago winter 😍 #BikeChi shows up!

Too cold for you to join us today? Ride the heatwave and join us on one of our rides this week! 🤙🏽

#BikeChi we need your help! Tomorrow is Burrito Brigade and we’ll have lots of burritos and care packages to distribute. All next week we have vendor home buyouts all over the city. Find all the info on our soon to be redesigned website. cyclingxsolidarity.wixsite.com/cyclingxsoli...

Tonight was the last night we had home buyouts scheduled this week. No pictures taken tonight so enjoy this soothing video from our buyout earlier this week. Imagine a steadfast tamale vendor handing me 10 dozen tamales and excited teenagers at a youth shelter asking me where they all came from.

Tonight we picked up 196 tamales from 2 vendors and passed them out from Pilsen to West Garfield Park and then to one of our favorite Love Fridges. ❤️

With ICE back in Chicago terrorizing our communities and kidnapping our neighbors, we called an emergency buyout this morning. We bought out 6 vendors, over $1,000, filled a Love Fridge and lots of food to homies on the street. We keep us safe. ✊🏽

40 dozen tamales, over $1,300 cash to street vendors, and food to the community. Highlight of the night: spotted a cotton candy vendor outside a grocery store so we bought everything he had and sent him home with a dozen tamales. This is mutual aid. This is #BikeChi ✊🏽🫶🏽🚲

I told my organizers we needed to get as much cash as possible to vendors before the holidays. They responded by scheduling 5 home buyouts in the next 3 days. That’s 776 tamales and over $2,000. And we still have next week. 🫔 🫔🫔🫔🫔🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲

You’re not at the coldest Bears game ever? That’s why no one will remember your name.

Chat, we had a blast. 🎅🏽 🚲 #BikeSanta

Preparing for my first Santa Rampage. Am I doing it right?

It’s that time of year I tell the ppl in my phone when I moved to Chicago for transit and my first winter CTA did me dirty and I bought all the winter cyclist gear and never looked back ⛄️ 🚲