KICKSTANDS UP: 7:00am ROAD CAPTAIN: Multiple DEPARTURE: Corner of Wadworth and Rt #41 (BP station and McDonalds) DESTINATION: Munsing, MI in the UP LEVEL: 3 MILEAGE: 350 (one way)
Flyer with all the information is in the "Chapter Events" section of the website. More information will be available as the date gets closer…
Join me on a ride to Manny’s Snack Shack in Twin Lakes, WI. If you have been there before, you know what to expect: good food and plenty of it.
You would also know that there is usually a 10 -15 minute wait to get seated, as Manny’s is not a large diner. But the food and the experience make up for the wait. This place is so cool, where else do you go where the wall decorations are covered in plastic ?...... Man, we’re talkin’ about a good greasy spoon.
Watch and listen to Manny as he as he turns omlettes, flips hash browns to a golden brown, and creates my favorite, Huevos Rancheros.. So big, I bring half of it home. But anything that you decide from the menu will be sure to please.
We’ll be leaving LSHD at 9:00 and take about an hour or so to get there traveling some of your old favorite roads and then a couple backroads in Wisconsin. So come on along for a morning ride to a favorite greasy spoon for breakfast.
KICKSTANDS UP: 10:00am ROAD CAPTAIN: Dan M / George L DEPARTURE: Lake Shore parking lot DESTINATION: Balloon Festival – Lisle, IL LEVEL: 1 MILEAGE: 75
Let's have a nice ride and then watch an awesome event. The entrance fee is $10. If you just want to do the ride, you are welcome as well. Just enjoy the day…
PRE-RIDE: 3:45pm KICKSTANDS UP: 4:00pm ROAD CAPTAIN: Manny C / George L DEPARTURE: Lake Shore parking lot DESTINATION: Doyle's, Richmond LEVEL: 1 MILEAGE: 38
We will be riding on some back roads with through Lake and Mchenry county and into Richmond.
If you like Wings there good if you love Prime Rib this is where you want to go.
KICKSTANDS UP: 9:00am ROAD CAPTAIN: Bob M / Ralph L DEPARTURE: McDonald's in Volo – Rt #12 & Rt #120 DESTINATION: The Mouse Tavern – Beliot, WI LEVEL: 2 MILEAGE: 200
This ride will be through some nice roads in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin to Beloit Wisconsin for lunch at the Mouse. The Mouse is a Bar/Restaurant that Lynda (my wife’s) family started over 70 years ago. At one time it was called the Mickey Mouse, but Disney didn’t like it, so it is now called the Mouse. This ride will be a level 2 ride of about 200 miles round trip.
DESTINATION: Rock River Run/Flight Deck Bar & Grill
Level: 2
MILEAGE: 126
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Alrighty, doing my final ride in style, decided to do something a little longer than I have planned thus far. Doing the ol' Rock River Run which I haven't done in a few years, then ending at a pretty nifty restaurant I went to a while back called Flight Deck Bar & Grill in Rochelle. Nice indoor and outdoor sitting, but what's really cool about this place is if you sit outside, you can watch people skydive and land just outside the restaurant in their private landing strip.
All and all about 126 miles with a rest stop around the 63 mile mark, just before we hit the actual Rock River Run. On the way rest to the river I also included Bull Valley Rd cuz why not 🙂
This will be Nick Strom's first chapter ride. Come help break in a new Road Captain… Show your support…
KICKSTANDS UP: 10:00am ROAD CAPTAIN: Multiple DEPARTURE: Lake Shore parking lot DESTINATION: Nippersink Forest Preserve - Lot D LEVEL: 1 MILEAGE: 42
This is our annual ride for the Teddy Bear's that goes to our annual chapter picnic. Your entry fee is a new stuffed animal or some Hot Wheels for the kids. Though we collect these all year to donate in November, this ride is one of our big pushes to collect. So bring your donates, let's do some riding with friends and end up at one great picnic on the chapter. It's a really fun day…
PRE-RIDE: 6:45pm KICKSTANDS UP: 7:00pm ROAD CAPTAIN: Dave J / Dan M DEPARTURE: Lake Shore parking lot DESTINATION: Port Edwards, Algonquin LEVEL: 1 MILEAGE: 40+
Finish the work day, meet up with friends. Ride, eat, laugh, head home. Who could ask for more… 🙂
DESTINATION: Poopies in Savannah, Blackjack Road and the Stagecoach Trail
LEVEL: 3
MILEAGE: 320+
** CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN **
A summer would NOT one complete without a ride to Poopies and the great Mississippi. So let's ride out to Poopies and have a great lunch. We'll see the Blackhawk Monument and part of the Rock River on the way. After lunch some back roads like Blackjack Road, StageCoach Trail and we'll stop at Palisades Park for the Mississippi River overlook and then head home. Great roads, shared with friends and we'll have some good times. This is a approx. 320+. mile round-trip day.
Please come and join me for my first chapter ride. Jim McHugh first took me to Bulldogs Grill for my birthday a few years ago. Bulldogs Grill is in my TOP 10 BURGERS LIST! The Double D is one of the BEST burgers in this area and it keeps me coming back! They serve more than burgers and their menu should have something that will also bring you back, maybe even for Duck Fries on a Friday. Easy ride through Long Grove, basically Bradley, Riverwoods, Portwine, Old McHenry Rd, and Fairfield. I'll just be getting back from a ride out to California so an easy ride with a great burger destination will be something I'm really looking forward to! Come help break in a new Road Captain…
DEPARTURE: McDonald's - Rt #176 & River Rd - Island Lake, IL
DESTINATION: Buffalo Shooting Range - Ottawa, IL
Level: 3 (120+) one way
IMPORTANT: You will need eye and ear protection. They do not rent that at the range. Ear plugs or earmuff over the head are both acceptable. You night glass for riding will suffice for eye protection.
We all know that we are motorcycle enthusiasts and since we have so many gun enthusiasts in this chapter, its time for a riding/shooting/riding day. We are off the the Buffalo Shooting Range park down in Ottawa. We'll head down there, spend several hours on the assorted ranges, have some lunch, maybe shoot some more, ride Rt #71 along the Illinois River and when we've had enough… We'll head on home, maybe by way of the Memorial Wall in Marseilles This is going to be a blast. LITERALLY… :)Here are the specific's for shooting.••• The cost is a flat $30 for the entire day. $25 for veterans and active duty (must have ID). Youths 15 and under costs $15.
••• 2 people can shoot on one FOID card, so you can shoot without having your own FOID card. This means any one can go and shoot. The range will cover us, if we are short on the FOID cards. Be sure to bring your card on that day.
••• If you don't own a firearm, you can rent a pistol or shotgun for $15 for 2 hours or a rifle for $20 for 2 hours. If you rent a gun from them, you have to buy the ammunition from the range that day. Targets and clay targets are also available for purchase. Everyone is free to bring their own ammo and targets with their personal weapons.
••• They have a pistol range, rifle range, training range, tactical course, trap range and the plinking pit. Plinking is shooting at all kinds of things like stuffed animals, milk jugs, plastic containers and such. whatever you bring… 🙂 Rapid fire is allowed in the plinking pit and must be controlled. The only other place is the tactical course, which you must sign up for when you get there.
••• If you have a concealed weapon, you can bring it on the property, BUT you cannot use it. It must stay concealed. So if you want to shoot that weapon, don't wear it coming into the range, carry it in. You can do holster drawing in the tactical course, if you sign up for it.
••• We can park our bikes on the blacktop parking lot and get shuttled down to the range, or we can ride on the gravel rode right down to the range.
••• Double taps and rapid fire only allowed in the Plinking Pit / Tactical course. (all others 2 secs between firing)
••• Staple gun or masking tape is allowed to hang targets
••• There are food vendors on the property.
PRE-RIDE MEETING: 10:15am KICKSTANDS UP: 10:30am ROAD CAPTAIN: Manny C / George L DEPARTURE: Lake Shore parking lot DESTINATION: The Taste of Wisconsin, Kenosha LEVEL: 1 MILEAGE: 30
This is the 9th year for this Kenosha event. We will be taking a nice, scenic ride to the Taste of Wisconsin. It is held along the Lake Michigan shoreline in downtown Kenosha and is produced by the Kiwanis Club of Western Kenosha. They have live music, over 40 vendors, 4 beverage gardens, kids’ activities, etc.
You all are welcome to join in on the FUN at any/all of the LOH events.
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Going to take you guys somewhere new again. This will be what I have dubbed "suburban riding". Did this with my training rides as well, I like to focus on the destination (which is usually food related) more so the ride it self which means taking some unconventional routes 🙂 Doesn't mean I don't pick pretty roads however! We'll be following a bit of the Fox River again, as well as see the Fabyan Windmill.
A little about the destination, they specialize in giant STUFFED soft pretzels. I've been going there for a few years now, I've had apple pie, chicago beef, cookie dough, brownie, taco, and many more. Saturday's they do 1 savory pretzel and 1 sweet (as well as all the normal soft pretzels) but unfortunately they do not announce what those stuffings will be until a few days before so I won't know what we're in for until the day of.
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Cold Water Rendezvous
Annual Chapter Picnic
