Cook County Forrest Preserve Speed Limit

I haven't had reason to ride in the CCFP in a long time.   Frankly, it had an 8 MPH speed limit which struck me as ludicrous (and a little dangerous).   I was being passed by bladers and runners who were not subject to the same limit and frankly at 8 mph you are starting to lose the Gyroscopic effect and are more susceptible to falling over.  

Due to the smaller guys now wanting to ride more, I may have to head out to the CCFP.    Do they still have the speed limit?  The "Ghost Pages" with John Stroger as President of the County Board state an 8 MPH speed limit.  The newer pages don't expressly reference one and instead state "reasonable speed".   Has the 8 mph speed limit been ditched?  Kane County has a more reasonable 15 MPH speed limit.

(To put 8 MPH in perspective, that's a 3 hour and 17 minute marathon.  if you are an 18 to 43 year old male, a speed of 8 mph will not qualify you to run in the Boston Marathon... and the slowest qualifying time is for an 80 year old female is 5 mph.  To have a top "bicycle speed" that wouldn't qualify for a marathon race is too slow.)

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Permalink Reply by Tim Heckman on May 24, 2013 at 1:22pm
I ride the Salt Creek trail regularly, which has to be one of the more heavily traveled trails, at 10-16 miles an hour. I've never had an issue, although I have seen a Forest Preserve squad car parked in a speed trap location (immediately east of the RR tracks between Mannheim and 25th) exactly once. I wouldn't worry about it, unless you are doing road race speed.
Permalink Reply by Jeff Markus on May 24, 2013 at 1:54pm

I agree that unless you present a clear hazard (which even on an empty trail would be the 15+mph) the FP police would probably not give ya'll grief. But if stopped the worst thing to do would be argue.

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