Winter Bike Tour of Hyde Park

Join Chicago Bike Winter and Big Shoulders Realty for the second ride in the Big Shoulders Big City Bike Winter Classic, this time a repeat ride of our Hyde Park tour.

Hyde Park, Chicago Community Area #41 sits 7 miles south of the Loop. It is a unique community not just in the south side, or just in Chicago, but in the world.

It is home to the University of Chicago, and the grand gothic campus dotted with several notable moderns. The community around the campus is equally impressive. Luminaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Olmsted, Lorado Taft, Howard Van Doren Shaw, Dwight Perkins, George and William Keck, and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe are but some of the giants with handsome contributions to the area's rich architectural palette. Hyde Park is full of locally owned businesses, community organizations and caring stewards of the history of the neighborhood. The best way to take it all in is of course, on a bicycle.

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Comment by Brian Kennedy on December 20, 2009 at 7:13pm

Let's not forget Santa (Willow) busting out a mean cork on Cornell on her awesome Stingray and completely stopping traffic. Awesome!

Comment by Cricket on December 20, 2009 at 6:26pm

Thanks, Lee and the corkers for another awesome tour! Thanks to everyone who took a fleece goody or one of the ugliest, stickiest made from scratch chocolate cupcakes in the world to lighten the load on my sleigh. Thanks, also, to the people who joined me at the HUB afterward.

Comment by Aaron Bussey on December 20, 2009 at 3:01pm

Comment by Chris B on December 20, 2009 at 2:47pm

Yeah that was the farthest I biked in one day since 25, which was awhile ago. I was icing my knees last night lol. Fun times.

Comment by Brian Kennedy on December 19, 2009 at 7:41pm

First time I've ever logged 50+ miles in December. Great ride and leadership, Lee! Yes, the rain penetrated my gear but that was my fault for not dressing properly. Who cares. What a fun bunch of riders on the tour today.

Comment by kim gnat on December 19, 2009 at 10:51am

I'm wimping out. Have a great ride!

Comment by Jester on December 19, 2009 at 1:51am

I have to work...Argh!

Comment by Gabe on December 17, 2009 at 5:23pm

I managed to get sick so I'm only a maybe ;-( Grrrr....

Comment by Lee Diamond on December 15, 2009 at 1:12pm

Link for the new Hyde Park photo album:

http://www.thechainlink.org/photo/albums/tour-of-hyde-park

Postride get together last time was at the infamous Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap, and why fix it if it ain't broke?

All riders are invited to dine and drink and hang out with us after at Jimmy's.

Cheers

Comment by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on November 29, 2009 at 8:32pm

A note on the flyer: And the next thing they knew, they were in the back of one of those pickup trucks filled with fruit.