Great Lakes - Local bike clubs??

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Hey everybody, im looking forward to the spring weather and am sick of doing long rides solo, plus i could use some group riding experience. can anybody recommend and good clubs or other solutions??
nietsmas
03-03-09, 07:27 PM
here's a list of most of the century rides around here:
http://www.mikebentley.com/bike/ilrides.htm
and here's a list of group rides:
http://www.chicagobikeracing.com/index.php/rides
Hey everybody, im looking forward to the spring weather and am sick of doing long rides solo, plus i could use some group riding experience. can anybody recommend and good clubs or other solutions??
Besides what Nietsmas said, here are two clubs that may be worth looking into:
http://www.chicagocyclingclub.org/
http://www.evanstonbikeclub.org/
Duppie
RJBTrek
03-04-09, 11:11 PM
Not sure when it will start but...Thursday evenings a group leaves Village CycleSport in Elk Grove village for about an hour of intervals. You get about 20 miles or so in and you get to ride hard. It's intervals so you see the same street a bunch of times.