I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on September 16, 2016 at 9:29am

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on September 17, 2016 at 11:14am

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Permalink Reply by David Beazley on September 18, 2016 at 11:22am

Well, rode the North Shore Century today. I must say conditions were about as ideal as they could get for that. However, that must have been one of the most screwy routes I've ever seen. Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I lost the route early and was force to make up my own route up the 2nd rest stop. From there, I completely lost the road-markings in Wisconsin and once again had to make up my own route back to Waukegan. Hit the rest stop, but there was only one person there. A ghost town. I encountered a few groups on the way back, but on the whole I think I encountered fewer than 4 people riding the century route all day. A weird ride to be sure.

Did anyone else ride this and think the road markings were kind of crazy (or completely lacking) in parts?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on September 18, 2016 at 1:42pm

I rode today. I had no cue sheet, so when I wasn't with a group had to rely on the road making. I got a bit off-course in Waukegan for a few minutes, but otherwise had no route issues.

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Permalink Reply by David Beazley on September 18, 2016 at 10:40pm

Maybe I was just too distracted by the nice weather ;-). A great day for riding to be sure.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on September 19, 2016 at 2:18am

No quibble there. I think this may have been the most perfect weather I've ever experienced for the NSC. Last year was nice, but it was 40-something at the start and I was riding rather slowly (with my brother- and sister-in-law) with short sleeves. This year, the weather was perfect the entire time.

Did you get passed by a guy on a three-wheel Harley who honked continuously? Maybe on St. Mary's or one of the other long northbound stretches. I don't think he was saying, "hi." I suspect he was rather upset that his Sunday morning ride was disturbed by all those pesky bikies. Well, at least he wasn't rolling coal. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin on September 19, 2016 at 2:48am

I had a rather entertaining encounter with a driver in Fort Sheridan. I was riding two abreast with Geoffrey and we passed one rider since it was a nice wide street. An oncoming Audi S3 a block up slammed on his brakes, rolled down his window, and shook two fingers at us yelling "two abreast! Two abreast!" It wasn't threatening (even though he was angry), just really funny.