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Special Events

January–March, 2024

Fix-A-Flat Nights! GoodSpeed's casual and fun Fix a Flat Nights equip you—empower you!—to perform the basic safety and maintenance checks before each ride, and to get you home should bad luck like a flat tire strand you on the trail. Bring your own bicycle wheel or borrow one of ours. Select Wednesdays January 17 thru March 27, 6:30–8pm. Includes a free innertube (your size) and Crank Brothers Speedier Lever, our favorite tire lever. Just $20. Reserve your place here.

March 16, 2024

Get Lucky Ride! Clues right here! Ride your bike to find the shamrocks hidden around Homewood, following the clues written out as contrived, forced-rhyme limericks to claim the pot of gold. Take a selfie with each shamrock as proof. Participants have until 4pm to find all the shamrocks and make it to the shop to claim their prize. Clues will be posted to social media and at goodspeedcycles.com at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 16.

April 13, 2024

Bikes and Books Scavenger Hunt! [Click here on April 13, 10AM for library locations and clues] In the Ho-Flo's 18 Little Lending Libraries, you'll find wisdom, romance, mystery, adventure...and letters of the alphabet hidden inside a particular book at each location. Record all the letters to decipher the message and share it with us back at the bike shop to win a prize.  Little Lending Library locations, and a suggested route (where you begin is up to you), will post here at 10AM. You can start from any location, including the little library nearest you. Prizes awarded for the first participants to finish, and for all participants who decipher the message. Participants have until 4pm to find all the letters and make it to the shop to claim prizes.

October 22, 2024

Haunted Ho-Flo Halloween Ride! Starts (6:30pm) and ends (8pm-ish) at GoodSpeed Cycles.  A party-pace tour of horror and high camp as we find all the best home and yard decorations in the Ho-Flo by bike. Cost: $5/person donation to benefit the Homewood Cancer Support Center. Need a pre-fright? Watch this.

November 2, 2024

Cranksgiving! Cranksgiving is a food drive on two wheels—part bike ride, part scavenger hunt. The event is FREE, but you'll need a minimum $20 to purchase food. Starting at high noon at GoodSpeed Cycles, Crankies (you) will pick up a manifest listing area grocery stores and food items. Using any route, and in any order you'd like, go shopping by bike, buying at least one item from every grocery store on the list and bringing it all to the Cranksgiving finish at Rabid Brewing (17759 Bretz Dr, Homewood)—take as many trips as you need to—by 4pm. Post-cranking (and probably during...also probably before), we'll celebrate your cleverness, your swiftness, your thoroughness, and your generosity, awarding copious prizes and partying with our friends at Rabid.

The enormous pile of food will be donated to the food bank at Restoration Ministries in Harvey, Illinois. For more details, head to https://cranksgiving.org/directory/homewood-il/.

December 4, 2024

Bike Ornament Craft Night! Wednesday, December 4, 6pm–8:30pm. Join GoodSpeed Cycles for a make-and-take Bike Ornament Craft Night! Learn to create funky and fun holiday ornaments and decorations from old, discarded bike parts, or just dive right in following your own muse. GoodSpeed will provide the bike parts, glue guns and decorative crafty bits (as well as the drinks, the snacks, the festive party-in-a-bike-shop vibe). Kids welcome. PLEASE RSVP so we can plan space, supplies, and food & drink. Best way to RSVP? Make a $10 donation to World Bicycle Relief. Donate on-line here.


December 12, 2024

Holiday Lights Ride! A party-pace bicycle tour of the Ho-Flo's bestest, funnest and beautifulest holiday lights and decorations. Starts and ends at GoodSpeed Cycles, 6:30pm–8pm, covering 7-9 miles. $3/person minimum donation to benefit the partner abuse support work of Anew (formerly South Suburban Family Shelter). Donate on-line here.