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Bike & Dine Lockport, Opening Day is Main Street Lockport’s season opener for great dining and beautiful cycling along the historic I&M Canal. Choose to ride two 10-mile loops or two 15-mile loops for up to 30 miles total. Both routes visit two restaurants, and end at the…See More

It's a bite-sized taste of bike camping awesomeness.Last year, we took folks and families of all stripes and wheel configurations out on a 50-mile, all-trail triangle of…See More

From the echoes of forges that wrought Chicago's skyline, to the riffs of Blues legends that haunt its banks, the ring of struck steel is the song of the Cal-Sag.Get info! Get tickets! - http://bridgesandblues.org/Friends of the Cal-Sag Trail invite you to revel with us in that heritage of I-beams…See More

Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Magic Sam, Gene Ammons, Otis Spann, Earl Hooker, Hound Dog Taylor, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Walter Horton - their music haunts the Cal-Sag graveyards where their bodies were lain to rest.Join blues artist "Harmonica" Neil Florek along with Cal-Sag Trail & Blues fans Jason Berry and Steve Buchtel on an interpretive tour of the graveyards of the greats - Burr Oak, Restvale, and Lincoln - this Saturday, October 27. Learn about the greats whose music helped…See More

Holy double metric! Bike Michiana for Hospice puts those end-of-season legs to the test, past Notre Dame and through the rolling SW Michigan vineyards and orchards to Lake Michigan and back. Routes range from 3.5 mile family routes up to a full century and the double metric monster. See the routesSAG stops feature cuisine from Zagat rated Michiana…See More

Holy trilogies! Bike & Dine Lockport, Autumn Cruise on September 22, 2012 is Mainstreet Lockport’s third and final tour this year of great food and beautiful cycling along the national landmark I&M Canal Trail.REGISTRATION REQUIRED—http://trailsforillinois.org/bikeanddinelockportThe 20 mile loop from August’s Bike & Dine returns, letting riders explore the National Heritage Corridor from Joliet to the Centennial Trail…See More

Sammy's Bike Club with Tri Cities Health Partnership is hosting a fund raising ride on Sunday August 12th - http://www.tricitiesgranfondo.com/Tri City Health Partnership, a free health care clinic for people who are underinsured or…See More

Don't make us call you pun'kin. You have just enough time to review the 5 unbelievably compelling reasons to ride GITy Up!, plus read the most recent news about Pedal America's Ira David driving SAG for us.…See More

GITy Up! 2012 registration is open!July 14-15, savor a bite-sized, ALL-TRAIL bike camping adventure along the historic Illinois Prairie Path and Fox River Trail.GITy Up! is for beginning cycle tourists, for families, for expert bike campers with just a weekend free.Beginning at High Noon in Wheaton, IL, you’ll tour a leisurely (and mostly flat) 25 miles/day, fully supported by volunteers and GITy Up! partner REI.…See More