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Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on June 23, 2010 at 1:17pm

Where's Michael A?

Not being too snarky, but this guy does a lot of riding and often posts his garmin results:

http://www.thechainlink.org/profile/MichaelAbene?xg_source=activity

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Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on June 23, 2010 at 1:18pm

I did a round trip to the botanic gardens and back via the trail that goes through Calwell woods/ North branch and it was 52 miles. If you were to take the trail that goes up towards Zion, or Sheridan (Ive never biked that far up Sheridan), and shoot over to the North branch trail using Dundee Rd it would probably be close to what you are looking for.

Hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by Michael A on June 23, 2010 at 1:42pm

if your looking for a training ride, I would recommend the XXX ride, or one of the other rides listed here
http://www.chicagobikeracing.com/index.php/rides

If your looking to just get in a nice solo ride the botanical garden trip will clock in just under 50 and you can easily add to it from the north end.

This is the route from a sunday turin ride
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/37580891
you can find lots of smaller groups along that route and adding 20 more miles should not be too hard. This was a CCC ride with a nice route heading more southwest
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/32633336
Have a fun ride tomorrow

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on June 23, 2010 at 1:46pm

*corrects the spelling of Michael's last name in his phone*

Up Sheridan to Tower Road, Tower over to the North Branch Trail and south on the trail is a good ride.

From Lincoln Square, I'd recommend:

Damen north to where it bends into Bryn Mawr
North on Ravenswood (just under the train tracks, make a left)
Ravenswood to Granville (check the linked map for the split at Peterson)
East on Granville to Clark
North on Clark to Howard
West on Howard to Custer
North on Custer to Main
West on Main to Sherman (1 block)
North on Sherman to Central (little jog east at Crain St)
West on Central to Ridge
North on Ridge which becomes Sheridan

you'll be on Sheridan for a ways

West at Tower Road to North Branch access point

Chicago Bike Map so you can make sense of my ramblings

North Branch Trail both south and north sections

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on June 23, 2010 at 3:27pm

here is a link to a ride I did up to Skokie 2 weeks ago. Map here. I'll also attaching it as a pdf to this post as well.

Attachments:

• curious george ride.pdf, 1.9 MB

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Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on June 23, 2010 at 3:29pm

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Standard-North-Ride

On a weekend, you'll see at least a hundred other roadies on this route.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Hoks on June 24, 2010 at 10:29am

Thank you everyone for your very helpful suggestions. I cobbled together a route up to 137 & a little beyond based on various suggestions. A lovely day for a ride! Now I have another question, but will start another discussion for it.
-N

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