tour da chicago??
01-13-06, 11:46 AM
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THIS SPACE FOR RENT
This is going to be sweet, crappy south side LFP pavement for the masses. +10 if you do the overpass hill at 47th.
LFP wind conditions will definitely determine the path of least resistance, but they should be helpful at least one way.
MLK will be easy at that hour, though a flat risk, but then you get to deal with some unspecified f@#$ness in hyde park to get over to the checkpoint. Please ignore that advice since I'm only planning on beating people who flat out on MLK and then get lost in Hyde Park.
LFP wind conditions will definitely determine the path of least resistance, but they should be helpful at least one way.
MLK will be easy at that hour, though a flat risk, but then you get to deal with some unspecified f@#$ness in hyde park to get over to the checkpoint. Please ignore that advice since I'm only planning on beating people who flat out on MLK and then get lost in Hyde Park.
01-13-06, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Landgolier
This is going to be sweet, crappy south side LFP pavement for the masses. +10 if you do the overpass hill at 47th.
LFP wind conditions will definitely determine the path of least resistance, but they should be helpful at least one way.
MLK will be easy at that hour, though a flat risk, but then you get to deal with some unspecified f@#$ness in hyde park to get over to the checkpoint. Please ignore that advice since I'm only planning on beating people who flat out on MLK and then get lost in Hyde Park.
LFP wind conditions will definitely determine the path of least resistance, but they should be helpful at least one way.
MLK will be easy at that hour, though a flat risk, but then you get to deal with some unspecified f@#$ness in hyde park to get over to the checkpoint. Please ignore that advice since I'm only planning on beating people who flat out on MLK and then get lost in Hyde Park.
01-13-06, 01:50 PM
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Not shutting up about what route you want to take is the ***ing point of this thread, right?
01-13-06, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by salome
can you all just shut up about what route you want to take? just pick something and do it. that's the ***ing point of an alleycat.
01-13-06, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by salome
can you all just shut up about what route you want to take? just pick something and do it. that's the ***ing point of an alleycat.
This race is something I'd really like to do. The rest stops are going to make it easier though. Would be fun to have someone with a time card/punch or clock working riders as they come through and send them on. Full out sprint for 20 miles. That's more like it. Never let that heart beat have a chance to recover.
Hell why not skitch a ride off some local in a truck that just happens to be going in the same direction?
01-13-06, 02:23 PM
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You're right, it's too easy.
01-13-06, 02:46 PM
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[QUOTE=Kiecker] Full out sprint for 20 miles. [QUOTE]
That was last week. BTW, my super secret route, although the slowest, will definately
be the best. I plan on passing as many housing projects as possible so I can stop and gaze
on the tributes to failed urban planning. A sort of "Tour De Bidonvilles". Ida B Wells, the Robert Taylor Homes, Stateway Gardens. Maybe even Cabrini if I have the time. I can't wait!
That was last week. BTW, my super secret route, although the slowest, will definately
be the best. I plan on passing as many housing projects as possible so I can stop and gaze
on the tributes to failed urban planning. A sort of "Tour De Bidonvilles". Ida B Wells, the Robert Taylor Homes, Stateway Gardens. Maybe even Cabrini if I have the time. I can't wait!
01-13-06, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by monkey
Maybe even Cabrini if I have the time. I can't wait!
https://www.den-cabrini-shrine.org/
01-13-06, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Ira in Chi
Like Cannonball Run!
Now if only LA folks actually rode
01-13-06, 04:54 PM
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I plan on following my own special route: from project to project chronologically in order of the city's failed attempts at the integration of public housing. As working-class white Chicagoans moved, so will I. Anyone who wants to steal my route will have to spend a long time in the library. So there.
01-13-06, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bvancouv
I plan on following my own special route: from project to project chronologically in order of the city's failed attempts at the integration of public housing. As working-class white Chicagoans moved, so will I. Anyone who wants to steal my route will have to spend a long time in the library. So there.
01-14-06, 12:53 AM
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On call tonight I found all sorts of interesting stuff while poking around the hospital with one of the few cool, adventurous people in my class. We scored all sorts of cookies, some old b/w pictures, slides, stamps and a framed etching of Johns Hopkins in some random AV office that's being gutted, keys and this giant rubberband which I plan on using to slingshot myself between checkpoints. That's my southside connection -- weird useless sh*t.
01-14-06, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Landgolier
So wait, is the UChi stop going to be the one from the flyer or the addy listed earlier?
01-18-06, 09:33 PM
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That's awesome.
I did some lake path riding today...suffice it to say that wind conditions were NOT the same as last Saturday...
I did some lake path riding today...suffice it to say that wind conditions were NOT the same as last Saturday...
