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Permalink Reply by John S. on January 16, 2012 at 9:31am

Which suburban swap?  Where?  Details?  Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by SlyRed on January 16, 2012 at 10:21am

Chicago Winter Bike Swap

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on January 16, 2012 at 10:51am

The Chainlink will have a table there this Saturday from 9:30-3:30 at Harper College in Palatine.

If anyone would like to sit at The Chainlink table for a 2 hour block, reply here or email volunteers at thechainlink.org with your preferred slot time.  Comes with free admission to the event!

You are also free to place any of your bike related info on our table (even if you can't volunteer but will be there).  It's the best way for us to explain exactly what we do.....

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Permalink Reply by Dave Grossman on January 16, 2012 at 3:41pm

When is the City of Chicago swap?

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on January 16, 2012 at 8:24pm

Yeah, h', Harper College is pretty far out in the sticks.  I just plotted a bicycle route from Evanston, but it works out to 23 miles each way.  Even in wonderful weather, that ain't gonna happen.  You can get within 4 miles of the college on Metra from downtown's Ogilvie Station, and then bicycling from the Palatine station, which almost sounds workable if there isn't a blizzard that day.  Otherwise, by taking a series of PACE bus rides (they have front bike racks like the CTA buses): first the Blue Line L to Rosemont, then bus to Woodfield Mall...you can get the bike ride down to 2 miles each way.  Not sure about the bike-ability of the roads around there.  Google maps doesn't handle PACE routes as well as goroo.com, so use both to map a route, if you can't find a car.  No disgrace in realizing that some places are just really inaccessible by anything other than a car.  It's a fault of the existing infrastructure and public transit routes, not us.

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on January 17, 2012 at 8:10am

Actually there is a reasonably safe route to Harper from the Palatine Metro station. i live out that way, and i ride by there regularly.

Try not to get there from Woodfield, though. There is NO good way to go.

Thunder Snow said:

Yeah, h', Harper College is pretty far out in the sticks.  I just plotted a bicycle route from Evanston, but it works out to 23 miles each way.  Even in wonderful weather, that ain't gonna happen.  You can get within 4 miles of the college on Metra from downtown's Ogilvie Station, and then bicycling from the Palatine station, which almost sounds workable if there isn't a blizzard that day.  Otherwise, by taking a series of PACE bus rides (they have front bike racks like the CTA buses): first the Blue Line L to Rosemont, then bus to Woodfield Mall...you can get the bike ride down to 2 miles each way.  Not sure about the bike-ability of the roads around there.  Google maps doesn't handle PACE routes as well as goroo.com, so use both to map a route, if you can't find a car.  No disgrace in realizing that some places are just really inaccessible by anything other than a car.  It's a fault of the existing infrastructure and public transit routes, not us.

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Permalink Reply by Oscar 2.0 on January 17, 2012 at 12:06pm

Hey All,

I can volunteer this weekend.  I can help out during the 11-1pm timeslot.

 

 

 

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