Modern Buddy

Wow this forum's active right now! I go away for about a week and whammy!

But back to the point. I want to ride up to north Chicago from home (Bloomington-Normal IL) and the "avoid highways" route from Google suggests a 4 hour ride! Part of the length appears to be taking Kingery Hwy to Brookwood. Is there a quicker (yet safe) way to get to the north side by scooter? Or am I just in for 8 hours of saddle-sitting?

Thanks,
RedCass

are you trying to go to "North Chicago" the city by waukegan, or North side of "Chicago" ie... edgewater, lincoln park?

MikieTaps wrote:are you trying to go to "North Chicago" the city by waukegan, or North side of "Chicago" ie... edgewater, lincoln park?

Well, not Waukegan, but I'm not sure of the neighborhood. The closest El stop is Addison (Blue Line), so is that Lincoln Park?

ahhhh logan square/ jefferson park area...

I cant think of a better way, isn’t it a 3-4 hour ride in a car doing 70mph?

or you can come in through the south side of the city, ride up archer through china town and then through downtown... if you time it for the right part of the day that could be a really nice ride...

"Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town..."

I miss it.

Old Route 66 (Turns into Ogden once you get near the city) runs right downtown. I know several scooterists have ridden that from here to California on old bikes.

redcass wrote:

MikieTaps wrote:are you trying to go to "North Chicago" the city by waukegan, or North side of "Chicago" ie... edgewater, lincoln park?

Well, not Waukegan, but I'm not sure of the neighborhood. The closest El stop is Addison (Blue Line), so is that Lincoln Park?

This is actually not that far north--in fact, it's exactly due west of Wrigley Field by about 20 minutes.

MikieTaps wrote:I cant think of a better way, isn’t it a 3-4 hour ride in a car doing 70mph?

Nope, 2 hours if no traffic.

oh my bad, I was thinking of "Chambana", my sister went to U of I down there...

MikieTaps wrote:oh my bad, I was thinking of "Chambana", my sister went to U of I down there...

I like to call it Urbaign.

And now I live in Blormal. These silly twin cities!

i really like to call Urbana Champagne, the Bar surrounded by a campus

illnoise wrote:Old Route 66 (Turns into Ogden once you get near the city) runs right downtown. I know several scooterists have ridden that from here to California on old bikes.

Oh, good to know! Thanks!