Articles filed under Cycling
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Tips for riding your bike during the colder winter months
Nov 10, 2020 6:00 AM - Lists of "Top 10 Fall Riding Tips" skirt the real reason riders stay off their bikes. For cold weather riding, enemy No. 1 isn't nasty old Mother Nature. The real nemesis is mental inertia. -
Suburban bike collections supply wheels during the shutdown
Oct 26, 2020 10:20 AM - Bike shop inventory remains tight, but suburban bike collections during the shutdown continue to supply the disadvantaged in the Chicago area and overseas with used bikes. -
When going out for a bike ride, don't forget your helmet
Oct 19, 2020 6:00 AM - Ralp Banasiak says like the majority of area bike clubs, he is in the wear-a-helmet camp. -
Buffalo Grove man makes videos to motivate others to get out in nature
Oct 9, 2020 6:00 AM - Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a toddler, David Goldman has battled an array of significant health issues over the years. The longtime Buffalo Grove resident points to two things that have helped get him get through chronic illness: his bicycle and the Des Plaines River Trail and Greenway.
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Pedaling through the pandemic: Forest preserves report more riders on the bike trails
Sep 28, 2020 12:05 PM - You weren't imagining it -- bike trails were crowded during the shutdown. Five county forest preserves confirmed double and even triple trail usage April through August. -
Suburban biking groups show a little creativity during the shutdown
Sep 21, 2020 6:00 AM - "Given lemons, make lemonade" is the old saying. Some bikers have gone way beyond lemonade displaying pandemic shutdown creativity in Schaumburg, Palatine and Wheaton. -
Help improve your ride with virtual Illinois Bike Summit
Sep 1, 2020 6:00 AM - The Illinois Bike Summit on Tuesday, Sept. 15, is a virtual conference that brings together biking enthusiasts of all types for a daylong discussion to improve bike riding in Illinois. -
Meet Ralph Banasiak and come 'Along For the Ride'
Aug 17, 2020 10:52 AM - Meet new Daily Herald cycling columnist Ralph Banasiak, who shares the four types of bike riders and asks which one are you? -
COVID-19 puts the brakes on bike sales, repairs
Aug 10, 2020 7:54 AM - Demand for bikes and parts outweighs supply as bicycling becomes a popular antidote to coronavirus restrictions. -
Bicycling craze is one saving grace of COVID-19
Aug 10, 2020 7:10 AM - It's the kind of COVID-19 surge that doesn't pack a gut punch. Biking is back as suburbanites find their best escape is on two wheels.
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