Tailwind Cycles

This would be a really great project! Tune in this Thursday to learn more about it.

We had another excellent employee bicycle service event at yesterday! About 30 employees had their bikes worked on by and over the course of the day. It's great to see a company promote and support healthy, sustainable transportation for their employees. Please reach out to us if you would like to schedule an event like this at your company.

We just got this big bastard of a lock in stock! The Granit Super Extreme is a carbide-reinforced ultra-secure u-lock for use in high-theft areas (Chicago for example). We've seen the proof of how many angle grinder wheels it takes to defeat this lock (I believe it was 7 or 8), which makes it all but impossible for a thief to defeat this lock using power tools. For more information on this lock and bike security in general, head over to the "News" section of our website (link in bio).

New shop shirts are here! Once again we enlisted local comic book artist to draw the art. The shirts are Allmade organic cotton printed by in sizes XS thru XXL. $25 ($28 for XXL). Available now in the shop. Reach out via DM or email if you would like to arrange shipping.

This is our last custom bike build of 2024, and it's a good one! We built up a XXL Stigmata CC frame with a Red XPLR 13-speed drivetrain, Reserve wheels and and Terrano Dry tires in 38c. We're confident our customer is going to enjoy rolling into 2025 on this bike!

Two more shopping days with us until Christmas! Our holiday gift guide and holiday hours are up in the "News" section of our website. Hit the link in our bio to read about some gift ideas for Chicago cyclists. Also, here are our hours for the rest of 2024:
Closed: Dec 24th and 25th
Open: Dec 26th - 28th
Closed: Dec 29th until Jan 2nd
Happy Holidays!

Waheela build we recently completed for a customer. Full carbon frame and fork. GRX drivetrain. GVL wheel set with 40mm Gravelking semi-slick tires. Service Course 70 XPLR bars and Zipp stem.

Illinois State Championship CX and the final race of the 2024 season! Thanks so much to our friends at , , and for once again organizing a great event! Thanks again for getting us setup to run neutral support in the pit. This was the last race of the season for the juniors program, who joined us at our tent for a group photo before they raced. Thank you so much to everyone who had a part of helping out the program this year, for organizing everything and acting as mentor and coach to these young riders, for helping out with registration fees, and anyone else who donated equipment, time, and work to helping make the program happen (looking at you )

We couldn't ask for a better group of friends and cyclocross family to spend a sunny Sunday hanging out on the beach in Chicago in December with!






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Just a heads-up about our holiday hours: we'll be closed on Thanksgiving Day, this Friday, and through the weekend. We'll resume our normal schedule starting Monday, Dec 2nd. Hope you all get to spend some good time with family and/or friends.

Great weekend of cyclocross racing! The program sent a squad up to the Wisconsin State Championship race in Waterloo on Saturday. Kevin, Chris, and Allan got to race in a different state for a change of scenery. Back in Chicago, we had our new, furry junior mechanic Loki out at the race at on Sunday.

We're excited for another week of seeing the juniors cyclocross program out at the ! These are a few photos of Christian, Dorion, and Kevin out at Jackson Park last week. The last picture is a reminder of the promotion is doing thru the end of October. You can donate your old wheels to the Big Marsh CX program through our shop and receive a 20% discount on a new set of Boyd wheels.

Today was the last day for Stuart, our summer helper, before they head back to College in Ohio. The time went by quickly, but we hope you enjoyed your time with us! Stuart did have time to employee purchase a sweet Team Marin 1 to shred the local Ohio trails in between classes.