riding with skinny tires.
My second Tour de Farms and certainly not my last. This year I’m proud to say that I started, and I finished ! Against all odds I finished my 75 miles. At mile 51-ish I snapped my chain. No sag vehicle when you need one, but luckily two guys stopped to help me pull a […]
Finally back at Waterfall and tried out the reroute of the trail. I like the change in the path, especially winding through the oak savannah and bumping into to a few stands of pine trees. I think the pines are one of my favorite aspects of the Waterfall Glen. The mileage for a full loop […]
Rolling on the Centennial Trail. The intention was to be on my road bike but I’m dealing with an issue with the extra set of rims and reoccurring flats. This is now one of my favorite rides on pavement. It’s a straight shot with light traffic and no cars. Lemont needs to work on a […]
A local outdoors gem. The Heritage Quarries are a nice, local diamond in the rough. Actually, I think that’s appealing factor, is it’s a rugged, work-in-progress. We hooked up the Burly’s and the Tag-a-longs for a 6ish miles of wooded and lake views ride. We even stopped and found one of the 9 geocaches that […]
Anytime is the perfect time to start cycling ! Here’s a cool info-graphic that I came across that helps answer the questions you’ve always had. Fall is the perfect time to get out on two wheels — especially on the Centennial Trail in Lemont. Park under the Lemont Road Bridge and head west, the colors […]
The north extension of the Veterans Highway Trail finally opened ! This section of trail extends from International Parkway and then heads south to the Centennial Trail. Ideally this is where the trail would head east and then south through Lemont’s Downtown. For now, that doesn’t exist, but Lemont Outdoors is going to help to […]
Whoa did we have a great time on the trail. Want to inspire a someone to put down a video game, take them to the Palos Trail Network. I was towing the Burley with T and H was leading the way on his Schwinn. We parked at Wolf Road Woods on, well, Wolf Road. From […]
I learned a life lesson when my son said to me this weekend: “It’s just a little rain…” He reminded that weather, like many things are just a state of mind. You can let the rain ruin your day, or you just accept… or embrace it and go about your way. Over the weekend we […]
So if I’m riding the pavement, I might as well be using the skinny tires. I forgot how much fun the road bike could be. I was able to cut 10 minutes off of the fat tire time for the same section and move up the Strava list of fastest times. Now I need to […]
With the MS 150, Tour de Prairie getting REALLY close I need to rack up miles on the pavement. It’s taking a little getting used to but it’s really fun to crank up some speed. The Centennial is a fantastic paved trail and a real gem for the Lemont area. We really to connect the […]