Well I too took advantage of the awesome weather and went riding around the chicagoland area.

Before takeoff:


Warming up:


Rode a bit then stopped at my favourite place to run called swallow cliff. Awesome trails and some really scary / technical mountain bike trails.

The cliff:


Obligatory pic of the bike:


Next up was another forest preserve called Bullfrog Lake out in Palos. Home of the big mountain bike race around here and apparently a lot of cross country skiers in the winter..

There's a lake somewhere over there...


Damn they're pretty harsh..


Next up was Argonne national laboratory. Well actually I just kinda sat outside and ate some pistachios. Doesn't look like I can get in...

Here's the link to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonne...nal_Laboratory

One of the white deer that lurks around the trail surrounding the lab:

Creepy.

Now after I stopped at Argonne I start riding and well what do ya know...my throttle has like 2 inches of play. A few days ago I tried to fix my throttle cables so the throttle wouldn't stick open a little and make it idle at like 2k.
So I stop at a gas station, BUY a philips head screwdriver, then proceed to fixing it. Good think I've done this 10,000,000 times before. Oh and some ******* in a truck parked in the spot to the right of the bike when I Was working on it. I was like seriously?? He came out and like scoffed at me while I was working like I was in HIS way. Whatever.

This little bugger came out of the housing.


After that debacle I hopped on interstate 55 to meet my friend john at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I didn't take any pictures, but I'll just put one here for fun.



After that, I had to get UIC parking police to jump my bike cause the battery died (while illegally parked in one of their spots..) Then a windy windy ride home on I-57.

 

Nice pics. Thanks for the tour. Sorry you had troubles w/ your bike.

 

that is sweet......people are riding everywhere..... im picking up my bike this week and sure enough i will ride it... i havent seen any riders on the streets in cleveland yet. but ill be out since its gonna be over 50 here for remainder of the week.

just waiting for the stupid $$$ to hit the bank.

 

Nice pics man.

 

hey man know you said youd be hitting me up for halos in the future... im about 4 hours south of ya... shipping would be a cinch

 

Sweet!! I'm getting a single bucket headlight and making a custom fairing for the signals so I'll be hitting you up for sure in a month or two.

 

Those albino deer are hard to come by! We had one that lived near us in PA. Saw it at least once a year.

pretty neat. cool pictures1

 

Sweet tour how's the no front fender treating you. I rode mine for awhile without one but couldn't stand it on the wet road.

 

Oh man believe me that is not by choice. I'm looking to snag a cheap fender or fabricate one as soon as I can get my creative juices flowing!