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If boosting your fitness, altruism or connection with nature is your 2024 resolution, you’re in luck. Trail volunteers biking in Cook, DuPage, Kane and McHenry counties, can nail all three.
Updated: Feb 08, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Ralph Banasiak’s 1/24 article, “How not to become a statistic,” left out a significant aspect of trail safety: appropriate placement and design of trails. “Shared responsibility” and the “Four basic concepts” 1) be conspicuous, 2) be legal, 3) be awa...
Published: Jan 29, 2024 at 03:28 PM
With freezing temperatures, snowy/icy roads and less daylight, winter cajoles us off the bike saddle to a safer activity, setting cycling goals. Catalogued among my past January aspirations are distance objectives, fantasy climbing feats and dreams o...
Published: Jan 23, 2024 at 07:00 AM
Several swastikas appeared on a Palatine bike path over the New Year’s weekend, certainly a disgraceful hate symbol, made the more appalling by the current Israeli-Hamas conflict. To minimize copycat behavior, Palatine Park District staff promptly p...
Updated: Jan 09, 2024 at 07:29 PM
Mountain bike racing, new bike/pedestrian plans and a safety education surge for Illinois students highlighted biking in 2023. Unfortunately, fatalities continued to rise.
Six biking/pedestrian plans were completed/approved, including Cook County’s ...
Updated: Jan 02, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Three recent biking books recounting multiweek journeys — both global and cross-country — inspire holiday gift ideas for cyclists. As inclement weather reduces saddle time, these adventures inspire long-distance challenges, pose goals for ambitious ...
Updated: Dec 10, 2023 at 08:26 AM
Bike shops close early. Riding mileage tapers. Fall's colorful showcase drops its last leaf. Even the sun beds down by late afternoon. End of biking season?
Not cyclocross. Wetter, colder and muddier just intensifies the racing challenge.
Cyclocross...
Updated: Nov 14, 2023 at 06:46 AM
"I can bike there!" echoed throughout my youth. A coaster-braked, balloon-tired, hand-me-down magically expanded my 10-year old universe beyond typical neighborhood explores.
Fast forward to sleeker, faster, multi-geared bikes and that sense of free...
Updated: Nov 05, 2023 at 07:16 PM
Inspired? Speak up!
Thanks to naturalist May Theilgaard Watts's vision, bikers and trail users are now reaping the benefits in Cook, DuPage and Kane counties.
Her September 1963 letter to the Chicago Tribune proposing a nature corridor to replace th...
Updated: Sep 22, 2023 at 07:26 AM
"2023 is a turning point for bike plans," observes Ryan Peterson, senior planner at Epstein Global, a Chicago-based firm specializing in bicycle and pedestrian planning.
Numbers tell the story: Four adopted plans (Batavia, Cook County, Kane County, ...
Updated: Sep 05, 2023 at 04:59 PM