Trikes? Trains? Cycling routes from Milwaukee to Chicago?

On Jul 8, 9:38 pm, Tom Sherman
wrote:
Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
On 2008-07-07, Tom Sherman wrote:
aka Cullen Carter wrote:
Hello,

I'm the proud owver of a Sun RB-3 recumbent trike.

Some day, in the future, I'd like to plan a trip from Milwaukee to
Chicago? I'd like to cycle there, but I'm unsure of cycling routes.

Paging Ron Wallenfang. He can provide the route from the NW Milwaukee
suburbs to the Chicago lake front paths, and possibly the route from the
Fox Cites to Milwaukee.

Does Ron follow r.b.soc? I thought he only hung out in rb.misc and r.b.rides.

Good point. Cross-posts added, since this is on-topic for the other groups.

In any event, this place is a ghost town, and you might have more success
posting to the other groups.

Amazing how few posts there are when you ignore all the threads started
by He Who Must Not Be Named.

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On Jul 8, 9:54*pm, "ZBicyclist" wrote:
Tom Sherman wrote:
Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
On 2008-07-07, Tom Sherman
wrote:
aka Cullen Carter wrote:
Hello,

I'm the proud owver of a Sun RB-3 recumbent trike.

Some day, in the future, I'd like to plan a trip from Milwaukee
to
Chicago? I'd like to cycle there, but I'm unsure of cycling
routes.

Paging Ron Wallenfang. He can provide the route from the NW
Milwaukee suburbs to the Chicago lake front paths, and possibly
the
route from the Fox Cites to Milwaukee.

Does Ron follow r.b.soc? I thought he only hung out in rb.misc
and
r.b.rides.

Good point. Cross-posts added, since this is on-topic for the
other
groups.
In any event, this place is a ghost town, and you might have more
success posting to the other groups.

Amazing how few posts there are when you ignore all the threads
started by He Who Must Not Be Named.

Ron W's certainly your man for this, but I thought I'd chime in a
bit.

There's a book on the Milwaukee-Chicago route.http://www.trailresources.com/b042.html
This route uses a lot of bike trails, which you don't need to use.
Somewhere around here I have this book, which I would sell cheap. I
just thought it would provide an interesting contrast to Ron W's
route.

There's a cue sheet herehttp://evanstonbikeclub.org/ASP/cuesheetlist.aspfor South Milwaukee
to Evanston (just north of the city of Chicago). This is designed
for a one day 146 mile round trip.

--
Mike Kruger

"viewed in retrospect, it is clear that it has been quite
predictable."
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I've done the Milwaukee - Chicago route half a dozen times as well as
fairly extensive riding fanning north and south from downtown Chicago,
when I'm there on business, and of course a zillion miles around SE
Wisconsin. So my idea of a route is not to look for scenery I've
already seen many times, but for one that gets to and through Chicago
as expeditiously as possible so I can get on with the rest of my trip
(or get home if I'm headed north).

Anyway from downtown Milwaukee, I take Water St. south, which becomes
So. 1st street, veering half right on 1st where it would become
Kinnickinnic if you went straight. South of Lincoln, 1st. St. blends
into Chase, which in turn blends into Howell (a/k/a Rte. 38), which
you take past the airport and all the way to and past the Racine
County line. A couple miles into that County, 38 veers SE, and if you
go straight, you're on CTH H, which goes all the way to the IL line,
and avoids the cities of Racine and Kenosha.

In IL, I'm better at knowing the route when I see it than defining it,
but at various times, going from north to south, you're on Sheridan
Road (131?), Green Bay Rd., and Clark (known as Chicago st. in
places). A few blocks north of 5800 north, you start stairstepping
your way east and south to arrive at the Lakefront path at 5800 north,
which goes all the way to 7100 south, but is to be avoided on nice
summer weekends.

South of there, you pick up 41, to 12 or 20, which eventually join to
take you through Gary.

The above will be my route when and if I start my Milwaukee-
Newfoundland trip Aug 14-15 or so, going south in or near Gary to pick
up US 6 and take it toward Cleveland.