Originally Posted by
Road Fan
A few North Side Chicago bike shops still survive since my childhood - one is Gary’s Cycles about 6000 North Clark Street, and another is Roberts Cycles about 7200 North Clark Sreet. Gary’s was where I went as a kid to buy a tube or a tire, or to get the bike fixed, and I worked at Roberts briefly in the late ‘60s.
But those are not the only surviving bike shops in Chicago, just the ones in my old neighborhood.
Thank you for the information about surviving bike shops in Chicago. I also used to live near that Chicago neighborhood many years ago, from 1989 to 1991. I was living near Touhy Ave between Western Ave and Ridge Blvd. Went to Sullivan high school during those years. I would have walked past Roberts Cycle everyday on Clark Street, going to Sullivan high school. Until I started taking the #22 CTA Clark bus in the winter. But I don't remember the bike shop very much anymore, because I lived there over 30 years ago. I can only vaguely remember it, in the back of my mind. I was not paying much attention to all of the individual businesses, I probably should have paid more attention. But anyway I moved to the Chicago suburbs in August 1991, and finally moved to Wisconsin in 2018.
I was not even born yet in the 1960s, I was born in the middle 1970's.
But those bike shops are a little too far away for me to travel to now. I only get to Chicago once a year anymore, it's usually even less often.