This Saturday (Oct 25th) is the last Lakeview East Kidical Mass ride of 2025, and our Halloween ride! 🎃 Since there are so many activities happening in LVE at 11am, we’ll go for a ride through Lakeview, with a stop at Heritage Bikes & Coffee. We’ll be back to Nettelhorst by 11am. Wear your costumes!

✨HAPPY FRIDAY✨ Thank you to everyone who rode with us today! We’ll see you next Friday!💗🚲

✨Happy Walk & Roll to School Day✨ This is our 4th we’ve celebrated with the Bike Bus! Walk & Roll is a special one for our neighborhood & Nettelhorst as a neighborhood school w/ mostly local students. We even have a book written about it (How to Walk to School, Edelberg & Kurland)!

It is Breast Cancer awareness month! I just got back from a life-changing trip with True North Treks, an org focused on young cancer survivors. Though I have met my fundraising goal, I would love to continue to pay it forward for someone else to go. truenorthtreks.app.neoncrm.com/christinahay...

Join us ✨this Saturday✨ (9/27) for Lakeview East Kidical Mass! We’ll be riding to Lincoln Park Zoo. 🦁 Meet by Nettelhorst front playlot at 9a, roll at 9:15a!

✨Happy Friday✨ It was a gorgeous morning for a bike ride! Thanks to everyone who joined us! Just a reminder that next Friday - 9/26 - there is no school! We’ll see you back on the bike bus on 10/3.💗 @bikebusworld.bsky.social @chifamilybiking.bsky.social

Heartbreaking story from this morning. A 9 year old hit & killed while crossing the street in front of their CPS school by another parent. Will never stop fighting for *citywide* safe streets infrastructure around schools in Chicago. These kids deserve better! www.fox32chicago.com/news/boy-9-f...

The bike repair pop-up is this Saturday! If you have a bike in need of a tune-up, we’d love to see you! ✨All are welcome to sign up, not just BB families!✨ Reserve your spot now at curbsidebicycles.com/chicago #bikechi

✨HAPPY FRIDAY✨ We absolutely love when the stars align and both routes converge together at the school. Such a joy! 🚲See you next Friday for Bike Bus!🚲 @chifamilybiking.bsky.social @bikebusworld.bsky.social #bikebus

Would probably avoid biking on Halsted between Barry/Clark/Halsted and Waveland for a while! It was very dusty.

So excited for this! All are welcome to RSVP (not just bike bus folx!). www.curbsidebicycles.com/chicago/

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Lakeview East Kidical Mass today! Had a bunch of new faces which is always a delight! @chifamilybiking.bsky.social

✨Happy Friday!✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us today! See you next Friday! @bikebusworld.bsky.social @chifamilybiking.bsky.social

Join us ✨next Saturday✨ (8/30) for Lakeview East Kidical Mass! We’ll be riding to Margaret Donahue Park, so bring your suits! Meet by Nettelhorst front playlot at 9a, roll at 9:15a! @chifamilybiking.bsky.social

✨HAPPY FRIDAY✨ and first bike bus of the school year! We had such an amazing turnout and so many new families who joined us! Proud of all these kids, especially those that learned to ride this summer just so they could join us.💗 We’ll see you next Friday! ✨NORTH ROUTE✨⬇️

See you tomorrow for ✨Bike Bus✨!

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Achievement unlocked: rode to & from MSI today! I’ve been wanting to do this for years & finally just went for it. I was always worried I would run out of battery, but I charged up at MSI. Also worried about my legs being tired after, but made it 27 miles riding + 9,000 steps walking at the museum💪

Have you ever wondered who leads the Nettelhorst Bike Bus? Since we’ve grown, we wanted to introduce ourselves! We have many more helpers, but this is your starting lineup for each of our routes! #bikebus North Route⬇️

We’re back and we’ve expanded!💗 This is only possible with the help of our parent leaders and our community. Big thanks to @bedubble.bsky.social and @acannon.bsky.social for volunteering to help us this school year!

Heads up #bikechi! The following are closed for Market Days starting this morning through Sunday night: Halsted - btwn Belmont & Addison School xing at Halsted Roscoe xing at Halsted Can someone PLEASE make CDOT require a bike reroute plan and bike xing exception when they approve street closures!

Leapfrogged with this huge bus for two miles down Lincoln Ave. The bike lane is hardly large enough for me in my cargo bike (especially with how drivers act here) and the car lane is definitely not large enough for this tour bus. Wish we had parking protected bike lanes here!

Lakeview East Kidical Mass ride to Montrose Beach!☀️ The weather really cooperated with us this morning to make for a nice ride and hang at the beach. Thanks to everyone who rode with us!

“Here’s an idea: If we want safer streets, how about we start by addressing the machines that weigh two and a half tons and can hit 100 mph, not the ones that top out at 20 or 28 and are powered by a one-horsepower motor the size of an orange.”

Lakeview East Kidical Mass is this Saturday! (7/26) We are riding to ☀️Montrose Beach☀️ Meet at 9A at the Nettelhorst Front Playlot, roll at 9:15A! #bikechi - If you see us on the LFT, make sure to say hi to the kids!💗 (and be patient with us, they deserve to use the trail, too!)

Pulled up to camp today and a few kids ran up to the fence to ask me about our bike. “Why do you have a wheelbarrow?” Turned into dreaming up all the things we could carry inside it. “How many puppies can you carry?” “Have you ever carried toys inside?” Some of my favorite conversations.

Public Transit, Public Good! @betterstreetschicago.org

Hope to see our bike friends there!

Came across this unnecessary vehicle in the city. For reference, my kid is my 4ft 4in. They would never see him.

✨This Saturday (6/28)✨- join us for Lakeview East Kidical Mass! We’ll be riding to ☀️Sunshine Park☀️ in Lincoln Park! Meet at 9am by the Nettelhorst Front Playlot, Roll at 9:15am. Hope to see you there!💗 @chifamilybiking.bsky.social

✨Happy last Bike Bus of the school year!✨ The air quality may have been terrible but we made the best of it! Next school year we’ll be running both the south & north route all year! More info to come closer to August. ✨See you next school year!✨ North Bike Bus⬇️ (South Bike Bus video in comments)

All are welcome to join us tomorrow (& anytime) at either bike bus! Should be a lot of energy tomorrow for the ✨last ride of the school year✨! South Bike Bus route is in the comments of the post & the usual route is here: nettelhorst-bike-bus.glitch.me/north-west Hope to see you there!🚲

✨Happy Friday✨ It was an absolutely gorgeous morning for a bike bus! ☀️ Only one more left in the school year! If you’ve been waiting for the ✨south bike bus✨ to return, you are in luck! Next week we’ll be rolling from both the north and south bike bus locations! Hope to see you there!

✨Saturday (5/31)✨ is Lakeview East Kidical Mass! Join us at Nettelhorst front playlot at 9am, roll at 9:15am!

In the fall, I was asked by Northwestern Medicine if I would film a story about my Breast Cancer journey. We filmed for 1.5 hours, and they came out to film the bike bus - which was a place of joy in those hard times. My community outside my family, that showed up for us. youtu.be/8vZzF0tozeY?...

✨Happy Friday!✨The bubbles were extra special today!🫧 There are only two more bike buses before the end of the school year! We hope you can join us before summer starts!💗🚲 #bikechi #bikebus

FYI #bikechi - the School/Sheffield intersection on the School/Aldine greenway is blocked to bikes for the Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival! We’ve been asking the 44th Ward to make a bike reroute plan when they close the greenways (like they would for cars), but it still hasn’t happened.

Sound on for ✨Bike Joy✨💗

Two bike buses in one week!🚲💗

As a health data researcher, who has worked extensively with surveillance data (and a mama to an AuDHD kid), I have A LOT of questions.

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✨Nettelhorst Bike to School Day 2025✨ Photos by the amazingly talented @chuyiwen.bsky.social!

✨Happy Bike to School Day, Nettelhorst!✨ We had such a fun ride on the Bike Bus today! Thank you so much for coming out to ride with us! We had two routes today! This footage is from the North/West route. We’ll be running this route (the usual route) again on Friday. @bikebusworld.bsky.social

✨HAPPY FRIDAY✨ A little rain never scared us! We had such a fun ride this morning with lots of returning friends!💗 We are gearing up for Bike to School Day on Weds where we’ll be adding a South Bike Bus option for the day that starts at Briar/Inner LSD! Check the pinned post to see the details!

See you in the morning for ✨Bike Bus✨🚲 Stop by our friends (and Nettelhorst family-owned) Family Room Chicago for your Friday Donuts from Do-Rite before/after school! 10% of proceeds will go back to Nettelhorst.

It’s a rainy/windy day, which usually helps with the air quality around the school. However, it’s bad this morning. DLSD & Inner LSD are backed up, which means all that cut through traffic on Aldine for DLSD is sitting, creating bad air quality around the school, while the doors are open for arrival

Next Wednesday ✨May 7th✨ is National Bike & Roll to School Day! This is Nettelhorst’s 4th year celebrating!💗 To celebrate we are rolling out a ✨NEW✨ South Bike Bus route for the day! Map and times for each stop on that bus below. North/West route will follow the usual bike bus stops and times.

Every American that goes to Europe, comes home telling everyone about how beautiful, quiet, and scenic their cities are, and then going to the city council meeting to fight like fucking hell to preserve the "neighborhood character" of street parking and single family zoning.

If you want to know what the hell has been happening to public health and why us public health and health research folx are having a lot of feelings and fears - this episode explains it so well. I was both nodding excessively and wanting to throw something at the TV because it’s maddening.

What you don’t hear in this photo is the laughter of my family play jump rope together for the first time. Thank you to the friends who spent their own 💰 to provide jump ropes, hula hoops, chalk, & benches. We know that it has been successful bc we saw it with our own eyes & spent our money there.