Hey WCS Cyclists!
If you are looking for a fun summer biking event, one that would plop you down smack dab in the heart of the city to enjoy Navy Pier, Museum Campus (Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Planetarium), shopping, dining, theater, Buckingham Fountain and the lakefront, take a look at Bike the Drive! (Click on live link.) Read all about it and see rotating photos on the home page.
It takes place Sunday, May 27. There is an entry fee (see the info...might be about $35 pp) but that includes four hours -- if desired -- of biking along Chicago's main lakefront thoroughfare, Lake Shore Drive, rest stations with water, juices, fruits, bagels, energy bars, and more. And of course, the infamous BTD T-shirt for 2012!
Come for the weekend (get your hotel now -- I can tell you which ones are right on the park) and we can make it a group event! We could do Bike the Drive together and have breakfast afterwards (my biking group, which we could either join OR I'd ditch for YOU, always meets in Grant Park at 5:30AM and takes off at 6AM...it's like nothing else hearing only birds and people talking and laughing along Lake Shore Drive, traffic-free for four hours!)
Before and/or after the biking event, we can do stuff together or people can go their own ways or some of both. I've lots of recommendations for dining, music, art, dinner cruises, architectural boat cruises, theater, farmers markets, etc.
If anyone is interested, let me know.
And if anyone has a neat biking event in their town or knows of one at which we might all want to meet, please suggest it! It would be fun to get together in the summer!
Sorry I missed biking with you, Pat and Joe, while you were in town doing BTD! As you know, I was still in rehab in Atlanta. Maybe next year. :)
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