Get A Grip Cycles & Revolution Spin Welcome Celeb Judge to Chili Cook-Off: Sandwich King
The fourth-annual Get A Grip Cycles & Revolution Spin Chili Cook-Off is coming up Oct. 26th and the race is on to defeat Kevin Costello's (owner, Get A Grip Cycles) "Texas Showdown Chili," which is, admittedly, ridiculously good. We've all got our work cut out for us. You, too, if you'd like to come by and/or enter your super-secret-special batch of chili, →
Choose Your Weapon! New Aero Bikes
Get a Grip Cycles is the first shop in the Midwest to receive the latest aero bikes from Cervelo and Scott. We live for these moments. Introducing: The 2012 Cervelo S5 Cervelo is introducing the S5 for 2012. Cervelo created the aero road bike segment with the Soloist and S2 models, leading to the design of the Tour De France-winning S3. Where other →
Chicago Cycling Needs YOU!
If you've got skin in the serious, multi-front effort to make Chicago a true cycling community with a lifestyle we all love, not a "green city" unprepared to back up the talk... THIS IS YOUR MOMENT. This Friday, June 3, the folks behind the Chicago Velo Campus are hosting an extremely crucial fundraiser at the Adler Planetarium that we all need →
Firefly Bicycles: We Have Them! You Need One

Get A Grip Cycles is very proud, pleased, and freakin' pumped, to announce that we're on a short list of authorized dealers that'll be carring the newly formed Firefly Bicycles. The crew of builders here has a handmade bicycle lineage/resume that's near sacred and now they're doing things their own way in their new facility in Boston...where they started things by →
Welcome to Our Blog

Hey Folks, You either already know who we are and what we do, or you're just finding out about what we do at Get A Grip Cycles here in Chicago. Either way, you're going to find out a lot more about us on this blog. We're going to be publishing regular posts dealing with all kinds of issues, new products and services, →