A source for the great trails and roads to ride a bicycle in Chicago's suburbs, and to learn about efforts to make bicycling easier there.
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Suburban Chicago Bicycling
A source for the great trails and roads to ride a bicycle in Chicago's suburbs, and to learn about efforts to make bicycling easier there.
Are these e-bikes or e-motos? It's hard to tell, but whatever they are, these two riders in Schaumburg were riding quite responsibly. They were in e-bike speed range (under 28 mph and probably even under 20 mph), they were wearing helmets, and they stopped at intersections. But if they weren't 16, they were not allowed to ride. Arlington Heights makes a unique e-bike law The Arlington Heights village board was ready to also impose a minimum age of 16 to ride all classes of e-bikes, the legal...
Wow! That's not in a forest. That's in a suburban neighborhood, in South Barrington. Finding the fall colors This bush was burning in west Hoffman Estates. It took a while for the fall colors to show, but Morton Arboretum experts say they really weren't so late. Yet plenty of people argue they were muted this year, at least in the forest preserves. Who knew that the trees and bushes right by our homes would provide the best scenery as November came around? It all really started in September...
What will you find riding your bike around suburban neighborhoods in October? Thrilling Halloween scenes! Like this one in Hoffman Estates. My nephew loves Halloween, particularly scary animatronics and gory creatures. So when I'm riding around, I'm on the lookout for good pictures to take and text to him. Unfortunately I'm riding during the day, so the scenes' best effects may not show. But it seems like more residents are decorating their front yards with creepy figures, some quite large....