eakfast Stout
7% ABV $5 Snifter
The aroma is rich with notes of coffee and maple syrup with a delicate sweet smokiness reminiscent of candied bacon. Maple and coffee also dominate the flavor and are complimented by scrumptious roast and chocolate contributions from dark malts. Supporting these flavors is a satisfying, full-bodied mouth feel created by generous additions of oats and lactose.
Founders Nitro Oatmeal Stout
4.5% ABV $5 Imperial Pint
A Founders take on a classic style, brewed with a generous amount of flaked oats, chocolate malt, roasted barley and a healthy helping of Nugget hops, Founders Oatmeal Stout is nitrogen-infused to give it an extra smooth and creamy mouthfeel. An attractive cascade effect gives this beer its forthright visual appeal—and the body and clean flavor delivers on that initial promise.
Thirsty Dog 12 Dogs of Christmas
8.3% ABV $5 Snifter
This beer’s name sums up the ideas of bringing the best together to celebrate. It is filled with seasonal flavors from generous amounts of toasted and caramel malts, mixed with equally generous amounts of honey, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. We feel it is the perfect libation, filled with flavors of the season.
Left Hand Fade To Black [Vol. 5: Black Rye Ale]
7.8% ABV $5 Snifter
This dark brew envelopes your nose with aromas of dark coffee, maple wood and hints of dark agave nectar. The flavor is an intense evolution that starts off with nut bread flowing into molasses followed by a taste of licorice. This lands on spicy rye notes all before being washed away by earthy hop, leaving behind a slight black pepper sensation.
and a train ride home isn't the only reason to go to flossmoor:
Raz Tart
4.5% abv, 12 IBU Mildly tart ale that makes your mouth water and infused with blueberry for flavor and balance
Kampala Education Ale
5.5% abv, 20 IBU Brewed for a good cause, a percentage of the sales of this beer will be donated to schools in Uganda through Pangea Educational Development. Brewed with Uganda coffee beans and fermented with a special yeast for a banana character, in honor of the famous Lubisi (Banana Beer)
Last Pipe APA
5.4% abv, 35 IBU A full of flavor good old American Pale Ale, solid and balanced, dry hopped with Falconer's Flight and Amarillo Hops, beautiful looking, golden colored with an orange hue
Panama LTD Red
6.5% abv, 28 IBU Brewed with an unique malt bill, the balanced flavor of caramel prevails with a slight roasted character afterwards. Fermented with German Ale yeast.
Ghost Freight Coffee Stout
6.0% abv, 28 IBU Ghostly dark and full bodied, poured on nitro for a smooth feel and brewed with Brazilian coffee for that beautiful roasted character. Made to be paired with red meats and chocolate desserts.
speaking of a train ride home, if you might, bring a glass.…
ear northwest side last summer. These three cases represented half of all 2016 Chicago bike fatalities. A fourth cyclist, 18-year-old Chuyuan Qiu, died four days before Kondrasheva, after the driver of a concrete mixer struck her in Evanston and she went under the wheels.
In the wake of these four fatalities, as well as a fifth truck-bike crash on the near west side that seriously injured 26-year-old Danielle Palagi, the Reader called on City Hall to follow the leads of New York and Boston by requiring side guards for municipal trucks and other large vehicles operating within the city. These devices—already widespread in Europe, Japan, Brazil, and other countries—prevent pedestrians and cyclists who are struck by trucks from falling underneath the vehicle and being crushed by the rear wheels. In the U.K. alone, the fatality rate for turning-truck crashes dropped by 20 percent for pedestrians and 61 percent for cyclists after 1986, when it began requiring the equipment on most new trucks.
At the same time we put out this call for change, the Active Transportation Alliance was working to make it happen. The advocacy group prepared recommendations for Chicago's Vision Zero plan to eliminate serious crashes and fatalities by 2026, which included a proposal for an ordinance requiring truck side guards and/or convex mirrors that help reduce blind spots. The organization also launched an online petition urging the city to take action to reduce the dangers posed by large vehicles on city streets, which also listed strengthening commercial driver licensing rules and limiting large vehicle traffic during rush hours as possible solutions. The petition garnered 850 signatures.
The advocacy push paid off. When the Vision Zero Chicago Action Plan was released in June, it included a recommendation for an ordinance requiring side guards and convex mirrors on large city fleet trucks and contractor vehicles. The plan noted that while large vehicles travel only 8 percent of all the miles driven by vehicles in Chicago, they're involved in 12 percent of fatal bike and pedestrian crashes. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Transportation introduced the ordinance to the City Council later that month.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cycling-crash-fatalities-truck-side-guard-legislation-vision-zero/Content?oid=29057624…
ong the ghosts of Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor, Big Walter, Jimmy Reed, and many others while you learn how Blues set the table for Rock & Roll.
LIMITED TO 60 RIDERS! Pre-register $18; Day of—if available!—$22.
We start at Blue Island Beer Co. and pedal on quiet Alsip, Illinois streets to the three historic cemeteries along the Cal-Sag Trail: Burr Oak, Restvale, and Lincoln. Blues artist and historian Harmonica Neil meets us graveside to tell stories and share the music of the artists resting below.
The route is an easy seven miles at a relaxed, nobody-gets-left-behind pace. We will finish at Rock Island Public House, where everyone is invited for snacks and a salute to salute the 100th birthdays of Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.
Blue Island Beer Co. is at 13357 Olde Western Ave in Blue Island; easy access from both the Metra Rock Island and Metra Electric lines. And R.I. Public House is just across the street.
Preregister at: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ymn6t5cab&oeidk=a07ebgbxb4o204afd27
For more info, friends@calsagtrail.org
Friends of the Cal-Sag Trail is a 501c-3 nonprofit incorporated in Illinois
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Added by Brian Bender at 11:18am on September 4, 2015
This Off-Leash Overnighter rolls out from GoodSpeed Saturday at high noon, spending a beautiful night tent camping under the stars at the Forest Preserve District of Cook County's Camp Bullfrog Lake, returning to Homewood Sunday morning before your busy week even knows you were gone.
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Where, when, & how far This last of three Off-Leash Overnighters leaves GoodSpeed Cycles, 2125 W 183rd Street in Homewood, Illinois at 12:00pm on Saturday, September 8 for a 45-mile roll along the Chicago Southland's regional trail system to Camp Bullfrog Lake near Willow Springs, for a night of tent camping under the stars.
We'll roll 25 miles home to Homewood early Sunday at 8am after breakfast, along the Cal-Sag Trail, Tinley Creek Trail, and popular cycling routes after breakfast. Kids welcome!
Both dinner and breakfast are included You bring your bike loaded with the camping gear and supplies (tent or hammock, sleeping bag, extra clothes, guitar, ghost stories, etc...) you need to spend a night outside.
Fee: Bike campers 12 - 112 years old - $85 Bike campers 0 to 11 years old - Free!
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e forest preserve path into or from Woodfield road. Sidewalks, even wide sidewalks intended for cyclists are invisible to drivers. They are busy looking at the road and not the sidewalk and simply don't see pedestrians or cyclists. I think sidewalks are ok for cyclists up to about 6 or maybe 8 mph. I used the sidewalk / bike path heading west since there was no convenient / safe place to cross Woodfield road and get into a west bound lane. I used the road exclusively heading east since I was in the right place. There were rarely pedestrians on the sidewalk. There were often other cyclists and it was a bit narrow to pass in opposite directions but since these were other commuters -- we often acknowledged on another.
For the past few years I have been a telecommuter and don't ride to work in a car or by bicycle. I simply walk across the hall into my office!
h3 said:Kristian M Zoerhoff said:M.A.R.K. said:I am not familiar with that expression, sorry for the confusion..As far as sidewalk riders, Do bikes not belong on/in the streets? Isn't it in most places, if not all, illegal to ride on sidewalks even if it goes unenforced? My question still remains, how do we get them from the sidewalks to the streets? Were talking suburban life here, not city life. I pass more people on the sidewalks(even on neighborhood vs. arterial streets)then I do in/on the streets going unnoticed im sure by most. And the sidewalk can be a very dangerous place since people aren't paying attention to faster moving traffic on sidewalks.. If there was more of a presence in the streets maybe we could push for better streets.
It depends on the 'burb; most that I'm familiar with only ban sidewalk riding in business districts, and at least one (Schaumburg?) mandates sidewalk riding if the sidewalk is a bike path.Coming back to the visibility angle, the least visible riders I've ever encountered are the unlit sidewalk riders that are so prevalent in Elgin. Being on the sidewalk, they're completely out of the reach of most headlight beams, and having no lights, they're like ghosts when they roll up to intersections. I sometimes consider whether I should carry my old CatEye lights with me to give out to folks like this, but I'd run out the first night.
Well, it seems this thread is now about lighting and sidewalk riding (Gary was the one who said "sidewalk" after all :-)On the Schaumburg thing-- they're got this bicycling mayor, and this german connection, and that's how they ended up with west germany-style bikeways (e.g. integrated into a hopefully widened sidewalk).I got into cycling when I lived in germany and appreciated these sort of paths greatly for getting around town, running errands, basically laid-back riding. I could see how they would be seen as a hindrance for someone trying to get through a leg of a 15-mile commute. We often forget that there are different kinds of cycling . . .
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I commute down Milwaukee regularly.
I ride 17-21mph depending on wind direction.
I can sprint 25-28mph.
I stop at every. single. red. light.
Even if my lane continues through.
Even if there's no Traffic.
I stop at every. single. stop sign.
Except MAYBE, on a residential side street, with no one around, I MIGHT roll through it at 3-4 mph.
Otherwise. An actual, foot on the ground or crank-stand-move-backwards-then-go: STOP.
I see NO ONE else stop at these redlights/stop signs. they roll them. they do the fake right turn-U turn. whatever. they don't obey the traffic laws. laws made by the man. the man who favors cars. they're rebels, I'm sure, ... but in they loose the moral high ground. Next time a car cuts any cyclist off, I know that they're thinking
'damn kids on bikes never follow the rules anyways always weaving in and out of everywhere how can I predict that?'.
I leap frog the red light runners people daily. I dislike it. it feels unsafe when I have to move out into traffic to do it, I feel uneasy seeing them run the red as they pass me.
I don't want them biking any further to the right because of dooring... the lane is really only wide enough for 1 cyclist. I pass in the car lane, and I think that's the right etiquette?
But the real rub is that I worry about these people. I like them and I wish there were more cyclists of every calibre out there, and I worry that one of these days they'll run the red light. and there will be one less bicyclist and one more ghost bike. Every new cyclist comes in seeing all the 'experienced' 'cool' kids run the reds... and thinks that this is 'OK'... and maybe it is, until you've gained the 'experience' of being doored. of being tossed over the hood of a speeding civic or knowing that friends and acquaintances no longer because they ran a red and a driver speed up to make a yellow.
If you can time the lights and roll past me, that's fine. I'll pass you when I get the next window in car traffic and can move that far left... but please don't run the red lights.
I feel very strongly about this.
I HATE playing Leapfrog with the red light runners like I do every single day.
But not because the leap frogging is annoying, which it is. Deal with it. But safely.
Sorry for the rant, I know it got a little off topic, because the people I play leapfrog with every day, the only reason I have to pass them more than once is because I stop at the reds, and they dont.
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his quote is accurate. We can only guess what happened otherwise.
What could have happened?
If the old guy doesn't like a guy on a bike and decides to make a smart remark he is a prick.
If the old guy is cutting off the guy on the bike and then makes the comment he is a prick who is deflecting his own culpability with a smart remark.
If I take my friend who knows I am a lifelong cyclist at her word that her dad told her that a cyclist had run a number of read lights and was weaving in traffic, the comment was very accurate and funny and much lighter than the kind of "Hey %@#& why don't you ride on the sidewalk where you belong" kind of thing that we often hear. The reality is I wish I had thought of the line myself. I may employ it the next time it is appropriate. I got a kick out of the fact that somebody's dad came up with the line and thought I would pass it on.
I really missed the boat on who I would offend. I figured that I might draw some criticism from somebody close to somebody else who had died on the road. I thought perhaps the comment may ruffle somebody who knows a ghost rider. I can understand that. I didn't think I would offend simply because the cyclist is always right on this forum. That, I hate to say, simply is not true. We take the cyclist's side and promote it here. However, the right and wrong of each encounter can vary. This is no different from a union friend of mine who loves to do battle with the company but has his greatest trouble when he has to tell one of the rank and file that he is in the wrong. It happens.
With that, I think I have to decline to post any more on this thread. I don't mean to post and run but I simply don't want a flame war especially with somebody I generally respect.
Duppie said:
You guys just prove my point. Hearsay from David, based on hearsay from David's friend, based on conjecture (the 81 year old man's opinion of something he saw) is reason enough to judge the bicyclist and say that the quip was justified.
Yet we cannot judge the 81 year old man himself because we don't know anything about him and he 'might be a former colleague of Mario Andretti?"
Really? That makes it an incredible sad statement about our culture...
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Added by David Barish at 2:46pm on December 26, 2013
ing at Lake County, IN's Oak Ridge Prairie (along the Oak Savannah Trail!), and return Sunday morning before your busy life even knows you were gone.
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Where, when, & how far This second of three Off-Leash Overnighters leaves GoodSpeed Cycles, 2125 W 183rd Street in Homewood, Illinois at 1:00pm on Saturday, July 14 for a 20-mile roll on quiet neighborhood streets and paved regional bike paths to Oak Ridge Prairie near Griffith, Indiana, for a night of tent camping under the stars.
We'll roll home to Homewood early Sunday morning (20 miles back), July 15 at 8am after breakfast, having slipped some adventure into our back pocket to get us through the week. Kids welcome!
Both dinner and breakfast are included You bring your bike loaded with the camping gear and supplies (tent or hammock, sleeping bag, extra clothes, guitar, ghost stories, etc...) you need to make it through spending a night outside.
Fee: Bike campers 12 - 112 years old - $65 Bike campers 0 to 11 years old - Free!
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May 18-19 - Off-Leash Overnighter: Homewood [10 miles round trip, camping at Homewood Izaak Walton]
September 8-9 - Off-Leash Overnighter: Camp Bullfrog Lake! [75 miles round-trip, camping at Camp Bullfrog Lake in Palos, Illinois]
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30 should be particularly careful because their gray matter is not packed as tightly as it used to be. And I don’t mean that only figuratively. 2ND; Bicycle helmets have been shown to reduce the risk of head injuries by up to 88 percent and facial injuries by 65 percent, according to a Bike riders who play against those odds do not fare well in accidents. More than 90 percent of the 714 bicyclists killed in 2008 were not wearing helmets, according to the
3rd; CHEAP CAN BE SAFE! According to a study by the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Va., $10 helmets from Wal-Mart Stores and Target held up just as well as more expensive models from high-end outlets. an independent lab test six helmets in different price ranges. The report summarized its findings: “When you pay more for a helmet you may get an easier fit, more vents and snazzier graphics. But the basic impact protection of the cheap helmets we tested equaled the expensive ones.” ONE FALL PER HELMET! Most bike helmets are lined with expanded polystyrene foam, typically abbreviated as E.P.S. When you fall, the foam compacts (even though your helmet may look perfectly fine) and so will not cushion a subsequent blow adequately.
Because materials degrade over time, it is wise to replace your helmet every five to seven years. If your helmet dates from 2003 or earlier, buy yourself a new one.
4Th; LOOK FOR A C.P.S.C. STICKER! The sticker ensures that the product has met the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission’s standards. The commission requires that helmets be tested for impact resistance on special rigs, that they offer adequate peripheral vision and that their straps be sturdy, among other measures. Helmets are tested in a variety of conditions: when they are hot, wet, cold and at room temperature.
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Adriana said:The most severe head injury I have ever experienced was slipping on some black ice (on foot) and using my head as a tuning fork...boingggggggg. Not counting all the times my parents probably dropped me on my head as a baby. I won't discourage anyone from doing anything that makes them feel secure, but I also feel this contributes to the pussyfication of America...meow. I mean, people think I am crazy just for riding in the street, is that going to stop me? No. Does that mean I will suffer a preventable head injury one day? Who knows. I can take a licking and keep on ticking. We are all capable of shear stupidity at times for various reasons (Damn tired), its just a question of luck. For the most part, I try my best to ride safe. I just hope I get a lavender ghost bike and a giant statue that breaths fire and shouts "Remember Me!"
Adriana, allow me:
Wow, Tony, some people really like to argue! Who really cares one way or the other, none of this is going to matter 100 years from now-- let's continue this discussion at [next social event]- all this internet blah blah blah is BOGUS! I'm on my way out the door to [_____] to have a REAL LIFE!…