A History of Service

Midwest Cyclery was opened in 1958 by Al Wenzel, under the name Western Tire. Originally located on Hale Street in Wheaton, the shop moved to West Front Street in 1965. Later, the name changed to Midwest Auto & Bicycle Store.

In 1980, Doug, Tom and Helen Jones took ownership, and began doing business as Midwest Cyclery. The store moved to its current location at 117 East Front Street - still in downtown Wheaton - in 1994. Midwest Cyclery is proud to be a part of Historic Downtown Wheaton and prouder still of the store's long tradition of service, reliability and value.

 

Full Service Store

In addition to selling a wide selection of bikes, trikes, wagons, sleds, bicycle accessories, and bicycle clothing, we have a professional service department. It's a very busy place, offering tune-ups, fixing flats, and making various repairs for our customers.

For visitors to the area, we offer hourly, daily and weekly rentals of bikes, trail-a-bikes and bicycle trailers.

 

Warrenville Thanks Tom Jones

Warrenville Mayor David Brummel and the CIty Council recognized and thanked Tom Jones for his five years of work on the City's Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Board. Tom is, of course, the senior Jones here at Midwest Cyclery.

In addition to serving on the Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Board, Tom also participated in the Route 56 Streetscape Workgroup and the County's Trails Task Force.

Watch the video of Mayor Brummel honoring Tom, joined by Tom's wife Helen, at the City Council meeting on December 19, 2011. (Jump to 4:40 for Tom's recognition.)

 

Midwest Cyclery - Voted Best in the Region

Midwest Cyclery has received the 2010 Talk of the Town Award for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction.

Winning this honor means that our entire Staff has provided excellent customer care which resulted in high marks. Voting took place on a number of user review websites. Results were researched and tabulated during the last quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010.

All of us at Midwest Cyclery are proud to have achieved this "Four Star" Rating and will strive to continue this same level of service to our customers.

 

Best of Wheaton 2009

Midwest Cyclery has been selected for the 2009 Best of Wheaton Award in the Bicycle & Bicycle Parts category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

 

Environmentalism

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. Everybody is talking about global warming, the greenhouse effect, carbon emissions, holes in the ozone, air and water pollution, the melting of the polar icecaps, and the prospects of rising sea levels. There is a very real possibility that we are doing irreversible harm to the planet on which we live.

Midwest Cyclery is "going green"! This has been a process that began several years ago with our recycling of aluminum, plastic, paper and cardboard. This year we have added bicycle inner-tubes and steel. And we also are placing coupons on our website with "code words" that allow you to get the offer without actually printing out the coupon.