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Comment by Bob Kastigar on February 1, 2013 at 1:17pm

Amtrak is currently having a promotion for the Pere Marquette train between Chicago and Grand Rapids.

Amtrak Pere Marquette Route

However, this route doesn't accept carry on bicycles like the three routes in Illinois and the one route across Missouri.

 

Contact Amtrak and complain.

Comment by Annette on January 24, 2013 at 4:04pm

Of interest to the touring kinds!

Repost from event page:

Join Active Trans and connect with riders of all levels that have at least one common interest – seeing the world by bike!

Active Trans Board President, Jim Kreps will share his tips and tricks on bike touring both domestic and international.

In addition, Climate Ride will give a presentation about their long distance cycling events that have risen over $1 million for bicycle advocacy, sustainability, clean energy, and climate education/advocacy organizations. Climate Ride currently produces two events—a New York City to Washington, DC ride and Fortuna to San Francisco, CA—and are working toward bringing an event to the midwest as well. The presentation will share Climate Ride's transformative experience and cover logistics for training, travel, and fundraising.  

Past riders will be on hand to answer questions as well!

Chainlink event: 

http://www.thechainlink.org/events/bike-touring-meet-and-greet

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/459747270740749/

Comment by spencewine on October 19, 2012 at 8:34pm

http://www.thechainlink.org/events/kettle-moraine-autumn-s24o

We still have room for 2 more at our campsite. If you interested and don't have the equipment, I can scrounge up a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad. You'll have to figure out how to carry it and bring your own food. Email me at sdgoodwine@gmail.com tonight, I will check until 11pm.

Comment by spencewine on October 18, 2012 at 2:55pm

Kettle Moraine s24o - this Saturday:

 

http://www.thechainlink.org/events/kettle-moraine-autumn-s24o

 

I have room for 2 more on my campsite. Let me know if you'd like to go!

Comment by Brian Bender on September 26, 2012 at 3:04pm

Is there opinion/experience on state road IL 49? I am trying to plan a Chicago to Olne ride and 49 looks like the obvious choice, but i haven't seen it.

Comment by Duppie 13.5185km on July 6, 2011 at 10:07am

@ M.A.R.K.

Those Route 66 maps are in fact very good. We did the part from Springfield to Joliet. The roads they chose are generally low traffic, flat, smooth, and straight. We took 2 days to ride from Normal to Joliet, but we weren't in a hurry.

I would stay away from the old route 66 itself. It's largely a 2-lane 55 mph road.

Biggest complaint is that the views in that part of Illinois are kind of boring.

 

Comment by Dan Ciskey on July 6, 2011 at 10:00am

This is a somewhat old but useful set of cue sheets from the League of Illinois bicyclists:

http://www.bikelib.org/maps-and-rides/route-guides/route-66-trail/

Also see a thread I posted earlier this year for a route out of the city:

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/critique-my-route-from-chi...

I've done the route as far as Joliet; it's pretty decent. Parts of the Gaylord Donnelly trail are gravel, or extra thick limestone, or super rutty, but it's rideable on 32mm road tires.

If you're trying to do Chicago-Normal in two days, it seems like Braidwood is the best stopover point. I don't know if there's camping there but there are a couple of motels, it seems. I'm hoping to do this ride myself sometimes; my folks live in Normal and I think it'd be a fun ride.

Comment by Bob Kastigar on March 24, 2011 at 12:22pm

Another very useful map (mapmash) for Amtrak:

http://www.mapmash.in/amtrak.html

Plain Text URL:

http://www.mapmash.in/amtrak.html

 

I've included the link twice, because if you just click on the link on an open web page it doesn't seem to work correctly, at least for me.

 

Rather, open a new tab or page, blank with no URL and then copy-and-paste the text above and it turns into a full page which is very useful.

 

 

Comment by Kelvin Mulcky on March 24, 2011 at 11:50am

That Amtrak map is awesome! thanks!

Comment by BalloonBiker on March 24, 2011 at 11:44am

In the realm of Amtrak:

The Path Less Pedaled is collecting information about bike touring and Amtrak in a survey here: http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=4841a631-434d-44d7-aa01-1...

 

Also, this is one of the most useful Amtrak maps that I've ever seen:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/senexprime/4785807080/

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