Social Ride: West Side Ramble

REMOTE START: Eckhart Park, 1400 West Chicago Ave

9:00 AM

18 miles, 10 to 15 mph

Ramble on, I've got to ramble on. Oh that scary West side, well it's not so scary anymore. As we meander past new mega-mansions, beautiful rehabs, decrepit shacks and soaring churches, we will enjoy all that the varied West Town neighborhood has to offer. The ride begins at Eckhart Park, 1400 West Chicago Ave. Meet on the South side of the Park (Chicago Avenue). For those who want to, a group will go for lunch at the end of the ride near the ride ending point (same as starting point), bring a lock and $$ for your dining delight.  

Contact Julie Sherman at 312-401-8631
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Training Ride: Monday Training Ride: Introduction to Training Rides (Season Kick-off)

REMOTE START: Roadies Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

30 miles, 18 to 20 mph

Curious to find out what training rides are all about - but aren't sure if you can ride at 25 mph? Here's your chance. This ride has the look and feel of a training ride, but at a slower pace. Emphasis will be placed on smooth riding techniques and paceline etiquette.  

Contact Rich Baumgarten at 773-759-8690
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Training Ride: Wednesday Evening Training

REMOTE START: Roadies - Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

25-35 miles, 19 to 25 mph

Take your cycling skills and performance to a higher level. Join us for a fast-paced training ride aimed at increasing your speed and improving your group riding skills. Practice rotating pace lines, close proximity riding and advanced bike handling while building fitness at a riding pace in excess of 18 m.p.h. Due to the need to ride in a tight pack, the fast pace and training specific nature of this ride, use of traditional style road bikes is strongly recommended. Recumbent, hybrid and mountain bikes are discouraged. A certain level of experience and fitness is expected. The actual pace of the ride will be determined by the ride participants.  

Contact Tom MacNeill at 773 571 8087
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Social Ride: Weekly Gentlemen (and Ladies) of Leisure Rides (Cycling Seniors)

REMOTE START: North Avenue Beach House

10:30 AM

10-20 miles, 10 to 12 mph

This is standing weekly ride of the Cycling Seniors and Gourmet Club. Why ride alone? Come make some new friends who bicycle. Our rides start (the last Thursday in April and run to the last Thursday in September) at 10:30 A.M at the North Avenue Beach house, and we go for lunch at the end of the ride. Join Mitch Gold for a weekly social ride along the lake front. This ride affords an opportunity for active gentlemen and ladies, 55 years and older to meet, ride and perhaps have lunch. ALL RIDERS ARE WELCOME.  

Contact Mitch Gold at 1-312-642-1988

Touring Ride: Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve

START: Clock Tower at Waveland and Lake Shore Dr. (3700N)

8:00 AM

70 miles, 16 to 20 mph

Enjoy more west-southwest riding by taking a 70-mile round trip road-bike ride to the aforementioned forest preserve located next to Argonne National Laboratory in swinging DuPage County. Points of Interest include Oak Park, Brookfield Zoo, Salt Creek Bike Path, Wolf Road and the hills of Burr Ridge. There will be three rest stops - one near the Forest Preserve at mid-point and two in Oak Park, both en route (for coffee/pastry) and en return (for snack/beverage).  

Contact Brian Bird at 773 354-8056
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Social Ride: Tour the Farms, Green County, WI

REMOTE START: Brodhead, Wisconsin at start of the Sugar River Trail parking lot, W. 3rd Ave. and Exchange St.

9:30 AM

19 or 41 miles, 12 to 14 mph

Ride to five farms where there will be tours that provide a glimpse of how families make a living off the land. It's a world away from the city! North loop to first four farms, organic vegetable, sheep, organic farming, and dairy: 19 miles, moderately flat; South loop to Emu farm: 21 miles, hilly. Meet in downtown of Brodhead, Wisconsin at start of the Sugar River Trail parking lot, W. 3rd Ave. and Exchange St.  

Contact Sharon Kaminecki at (773) 442-2549
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Training Ride: Monday Training Ride: Introduction to Training Rides

REMOTE START: Roadies Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

30 miles, 18 to 20 mph

Curious to find out what training rides are all about - but aren't sure if you can ride at 25 mph? Here's your chance. This ride has the look and feel of a training ride, but at a slower pace. Emphasis will be placed on smooth riding techniques and paceline etiquette.  

Contact Rich Baumgarten at 773-759-8690
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Training Ride: Wednesday Evening Training

REMOTE START: Roadies - Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

25-35 miles, 19 to 25 mph

Take your cycling skills and performance to a higher level. Join us for a fast-paced training ride aimed at increasing your speed and improving your group riding skills. Practice rotating pace lines, close proximity riding and advanced bike handling while building fitness at a riding pace in excess of 18 m.p.h. Due to the need to ride in a tight pack, the fast pace and training specific nature of this ride, use of traditional style road bikes is strongly recommended. Recumbent, hybrid and mountain bikes are discouraged. A certain level of experience and fitness is expected. The actual pace of the ride will be determined by the ride participants.  

Contact Bevan Brookfield at 312 446 1737

Social Ride: Weekly Gentlemen (and Ladies) of Leisure Rides (Cycling Seniors)

REMOTE START: North Avenue Beach House

10:30 AM

10-20 miles, 10 to 12 mph

This is standing weekly ride of the Cycling Seniors and Gourmet Club. Why ride alone? Come make some new friends who bicycle. Our rides start (the last Thursday in April and run to the last Thursday in September) at 10:30 A.M at the North Avenue Beach house, and we go for lunch at the end of the ride. Join Mitch Gold for a weekly social ride along the lake front. This ride affords an opportunity for active gentlemen and ladies, 55 years and older to meet, ride and perhaps have lunch. ALL RIDERS ARE WELCOME.  

Contact Mitch Gold at 1-312-642-1988
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Social Ride: 2nd Annual Lope onto Lombard to Loll Around the Lilacs

REMOTE START: Forest Park Blue Line Station

10:00 AM

25 miles, 10 to 12 mph

Wake up and smell the flowers with the second annual ride to the Lombard Lilac Fest. Join us for a bike path trek to one of the premier floral displays in the Midwest if not the country. The ride will be almost all on the Illinois Prairie Path and the Great Western Trail with a lunch stop at a Greek diner in beautiful downtown Lombard. Please note remote start location at the Forest Park Blue Line station. Free parking is available next to the Cook County Courthouse off of First Avenue in Maywood which will be a secondary start point. Link to google map of start location:
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Contact Joe Dickstein and Kitty Shanahan
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Fix-A-Flat Workshop

REMOTE START: Please contact Alice for start locaiton.

12:00 PM

Is your fear of fixing a flat keeping you from riding longer distances? Learn how to be self-sufficient on the road when it comes to fixing a flat. Alice will teach you how to change a flat on your own bike. Space is limited so RSVP required to learn the location. Participants MUST bring the following: at least one extra tube and two tire levers. Pumps not necessary, but recommended. [Topeak’s Road or Mountain Morph is the organizer’s preferred frame pump.]

Women are strongly encouraged to attend.  

Contact Alice O'Laughlin at (773) 294-7533
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Great Homes and Greenhouses

REMOTE START: Eckhart Park, 1400 West Chicago Ave

9:00 AM

40 miles, 14 to 16 mph

A slightly shorter and slower touring ride, we will amble on from the west side to the Oak Park/Riverside/Berwyn hoods to view beautiful homes and wide streets. The ride begins and ends at Eckhart Park, 1400 West Chicago Ave on the south side near the entrance. Bring locks and bucks for lunch.  

Contact Julie Sherman at 312-401-8631
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Training Ride: Monday Training Ride: Introduction to Training Rides

REMOTE START: Roadies Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

30 miles, 18 to 20 mph

Curious to find out what training rides are all about - but aren't sure if you can ride at 25 mph? Here's your chance. This ride has the look and feel of a training ride, but at a slower pace. Emphasis will be placed on smooth riding techniques and paceline etiquette.  

Contact Larry Allingham at 312-286-1317
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Training Ride: Wednesday Evening Training

REMOTE START: Roadies - Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

25 - 35 miles, 19 to 25 mph

Take your cycling skills and performance to a higher level. Join us for a fast-paced training ride aimed at increasing your speed and improving your group riding skills. Practice rotating pace lines, close proximity riding and advanced bike handling while building fitness at a riding pace in excess of 18 m.p.h. Due to the need to ride in a tight pack, the fast pace and training specific nature of this ride, use of traditional style road bikes is strongly recommended. Recumbent, hybrid and mountain bikes are discouraged. A certain level of experience and fitness is expected. The actual pace of the ride will be determined by the ride participants  

Contact Jeremy Treister at 312 823 7926

Social Ride: Weekly Gentlemen (and Ladies) of Leisure Rides (Cycling Seniors)

REMOTE START: North Avenue Beach House

10:30 AM

10-20 miles, 10 to 12 mph

This is standing weekly ride of the Cycling Seniors and Gourmet Club. Why ride alone? Come make some new friends who bicycle. Our rides start (the last Thursday in April and run to the last Thursday in September) at 10:30 A.M at the North Avenue Beach house, and we go for lunch at the end of the ride. Join Mitch Gold for a weekly social ride along the lake front. This ride affords an opportunity for active gentlemen and ladies, 55 years and older to meet, ride and perhaps have lunch. ALL RIDERS ARE WELCOME.  

Contact Mitch Gold at 1-312-642-1988
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Touring Ride: The Road to Hegewisch Part 10

REMOTE START: Chicago Lakefront, 31st Street Beach house

9:00 AM

40 miles, 14 to 18 mph

Ride leaders George Vrechek and Walt Choromanski return again this year with several excursions to the South - as in the southeastern portion of Chicago. We'll start the season with this ride that begins at the 31st Beach House and heads to the most remote corner of Chicago, Hegewisch, founded as a separate town in the 1880s. We'll avoid most lights and head down the lakefront via South Shore Drive, Avenue L, and the Burnham Greenway. The pace should get you sweating but not keeling over. You'll see the only lakes inside the City, the only trailer park, and the only saw mill. We'll stop for lunch at Darcy's Dog and Shrimp Shack or equivalent establishment in downtown Hegewisch. We'll come back a different way than we have in the past. Free parking can be found west of the starting point along Rhodes Avenue south of 31st Street, or ride your bike to the start to add some more miles to the trip. We'll shoot for getting back by 2PM.  

Contact George Vrechek at (312) 654-8909
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Social Ride: Tour of Humboldt Park

REMOTE START: Humboldt Park at the intersection of Division and California streets

1:00 PM

15 miles, 10 to 15 mph

Chicago Cycling Club, in collaboration with the ATA, the Chainlink.org, and Big Shoulders Realty represented by Lee Diamond, will be doing a neighborhood tour this month of Humboldt Park. It is community area number 23 and sits four miles west of the Loop. The tour will explore all of Humboldt Park; the neighborhood, the park, and the community area. We will visit the National Landmark namesake park and all of its buildings and major sculptures, Dwight Perkin’s Moos and Nobel schools, the Paseo Boriqua, and the home-sites of some of Chicago’s most famous figures.
Humboldt Park is a community area, a neighborhood and a huge city park. All three of these are named for Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist. The neighborhood extends from Western to Pulaski and from Armitage to Chicago leaving half of the total a residential neighborhood, and half a park in the community area of West Town. The community area begins at Sacramento/Humboldt on the east and is otherwise bordered by rail-lines (working and defunct). The lines include The Bloomingdale Line and Street on the north, the Union Pacific at Kinzie on the south and the Belt Railway on the west, just east of Cicero avenue. The area known as West Humboldt Park extends from Pulaski west to the other borders of the community area. The area is also home to some of the greatest work of some of the most heralded figures in Chicago and American architecture and landscape design, including William Le Baron Jenney, Jen Jensen, William Carbys Zimmerman, Dwight Perkins and Schmidt, Garden & Martin. The area is resplendent with a vibrant palette of murals and community gardens. The tour is roughly 15 miles and 4 to 5 hours in length.  

Contact Lee Diamond at (773) 255-6347
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Training Ride: Monday Training Ride: Introduction to Training Rides

REMOTE START: Roadies Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

30 miles, 18 to 20 mph

Curious to find out what training rides are all about - but aren't sure if you can ride at 25 mph? Here's your chance. This ride has the look and feel of a training ride, but at a slower pace. Emphasis will be placed on smooth riding techniques and paceline etiquette.  

Contact Rich Baumgarten at 773-759-8690
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Social Ride: FWEGA (Fourth Wednesday Getting Acquainted Ride)

START: Clock Tower at Waveland and Lake Shore Dr. (3700N)

6:30 PM

10 miles, 12 to 14 mph

Fourth Wed. Getting Acquainted has been a club tradition dating back many years. Meet and make new friends or renew old ones. A socially-paced ride that will end at a local North-side eating and drinking establishment.  

Contact Rick Pavia at (773) 206-5282
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Training Ride: Wednesday Evening Training

REMOTE START: Roadies - Dunkin' Donuts, Lincoln & California

6:30 PM

25 - 35 miles, 19 to 25 mph

Take your cycling skills and performance to a higher level. Join us for a fast-paced training ride aimed at increasing your speed and improving your group riding skills. Practice rotating pace lines, close proximity riding and advanced bike handling while building fitness at a riding pace in excess of 18 m.p.h. Due to the need to ride in a tight pack, the fast pace and training specific nature of this ride, use of traditional style road bikes is strongly recommended. Recumbent, hybrid and mountain bikes are discouraged. A certain level of experience and fitness is expected. The actual pace of the ride will be determined by the ride participants.  

Contact Mia Moore at 415 608 3745

Social Ride: Weekly Gentlemen (and Ladies) of Leisure Rides (Cycling Seniors)

REMOTE START: North Avenue Beach House

10:30 AM

10-20 miles, 10 to 12 mph

This is standing weekly ride of the Cycling Seniors and Gourmet Club. Why ride alone? Come make some new friends who bicycle. Our rides start (the last Thursday in April and run to the last Thursday in September) at 10:30 A.M at the North Avenue Beach house, and we go for lunch at the end of the ride. Join Mitch Gold for a weekly social ride along the lake front. This ride affords an opportunity for active gentlemen and ladies, 55 years and older to meet, ride and perhaps have lunch. ALL RIDERS ARE WELCOME.  

Contact Mitch Gold at 1-312-642-1988
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Social Ride: Beans and Bagels Ride

REMOTE START: Beans and Bagel Coffee shop - 1812 Montrose, Chicago

11:30 AM

4 miles, 8 to 10 mph

We will ride from one Beans and Bagels location to the other, with some stops to look around the neighborhood as well. Finishing location: 2601 West Leland Avenue. Note: originally scheduled for May 15th, this ride was re-scheduled to this date.  

Contact Julie Hochstadter at (773) 965-3396
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Touring Ride: 2010 Bike The Drive Twice on Memorial Day Weekend

REMOTE START: Columbus and Jackson, Grant Park, Chicago

6:00 AM

60 miles, 16 to 18 mph

Bike the Drive Twice with Brian Bird. Since you only get to bike the drive once a year, why not get in 2 cracks at it? Note: you will need to register and pay the fee to the Active Transportation Alliance to participate in this ride, see here for more details: ATA Web site link Here's Brian's description: Bike the Drive. The ride so nice, I'm doing it twice. Get yourself registered then come out and keep me company as I complete the Bike the Drive circuit twice in preparation for the grueling CCC Memorial Day ride. I'm sticking to the advertised pace so as to finish just before the broom wagon & car traffic catch me. That means only two 10-15 minute rest stops - probably both at the north end (Bryn Mawr) location.  

Contact Brian Bird at 773 354-8056
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Touring Ride: Tinley Woods - Old Plank Trail

REMOTE START: Bremen Woods Preserve - 159th and Oak Park Avenue - See Link for Directions

10:00 AM

35-40 miles, 14 to 16 mph

A CCC Memorial Day tradition! Join CCC's resident Southwest-sider, Brian Bird on 40-some-odd mile tour of (what else?) the Southwest suburbs. We'll be starting at the Bremen Woods Preserve (159th St. and Oak Park Ave.) the riding through the Cook County Forest Preserve, and on the Old Plank Trail to Frankfort, IL. and back. All roads and paths are 100% paved and skinny tire ride-able (fat tires welcome too!). Mid-point stop at the Frankfort Creamery. End point stop at Aurelio's Pizza and its universally-renown all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. The Bremen Woods Preserve entrance/starting point is South of the intersection, just past Aurelio's Pizza on the East side of Oak Park Avenue. See here for Google map directions: 159th St. & Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park  

Contact Brian Bird at 773 354-8056
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