Chicago group ride starved rock area 8/18 or 8/25

[tejkowskit]

Chicago members are becoming more abundant on the forum and I thought it would be cool if we organized a group ride! Sundays are really the only day I have all day to ride so I was thinking august 18th or 25th. Starved rock area offers some good riding, and its a good distance to make for a day ride.

Im in the SW burbs.
I'll post up a map of the proposed route (changes/recommendations along the route welcome). Just trying to get an idea of who would wanna go to organize this up!

everyone possibly going so far
REO Scorpip
Long101
2006_FZ6

 

[REO Scorpio]

25th may be doable for me. Have a bachelor party the day before, so how early?

 

[tejkowskit]

25th may be doable for me. Have a bachelor party the day before, so how early?

I am good to leave as late as 11-12. Lets see if anyone else chimes in.

 

[long101]

I should be good to go for either. I'm kicking the idea around in my head to ride out to Nashville for weekend, so as long as I don't sporadically do that, Im in.

 

[2006_FZ6]

Both days look good for me as of right now. But that could always change! :BLAA:

 

[tejkowskit]

Here's the route I came up with (from my area; we can decide on a place to meet if others are coming from different areas). I've ridden it before and its pretty good. Suggestions/changes are welcome.

https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=L...dHgmy-g&t=h&mra=dpe&mrsp=5&sz=14&via=3,5&z=10

 

[sxty8goats]

Good Ride. My GTO club did a Starving Rock Cruise back when I lived out that way. Enjoy. Don't skip the history thought.

 

[long101]

I took a sick day from work last week and made this ride from Chicago. All around very enjoyable, the trip down 88 was very nice, I'm a big fan of two lane rural routes. There were a ton of bikes crusing around out there, even during a work day. I made a gas stop on the way out there and drove back without stopping, probably under a 1.5 hour trip from the city