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Noel Occomy

Chicago's Best Bike Trails

Chicago's cycling enthusiasts enjoy breathtaking views and safe travel across the city.

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Warwick Occomy: Chicago has a rich cycling tradition that stretches back to the 1860s.

Tom Ennessy: The bike trails in Chicago are great because it gives you a good place to get out and ride.

Warwick Occomy: We asked around to find the top stretches of bike path in the Chicago area and this is what we found.

Number four, the South Shore Path starting from 71st Lakeshore Drive and head all the way up to the Museum Campus. Number three starting from the Museum Campus, leading through Navy Pier and ending in North Avenue Beach.

The number two path starts at Sheridan Road in Lake Shore Drive and leads to Irving Park Road. And the number one biking path in Chicago, by far, is Belmont in Lake Shore Drive to North Avenue Beach.

Alice C. Viana: Once you get pass like North Avenue Beach and Oak Street Beach, it tends to quiet down a little bit.

Nicholas Keiser: It's a different experience as a change of pace.

Warwick Occomy: Whether it's navigating neighborhood streets or catching a breeze on the weekend, Chicagoans are discovering the benefits of biking. This is Warwick Occomy, reporting from Chicago.

Absurd pt. 3 by SP420 at 04/24/12 03:14PM Flag

So you just took one, 16 mile long path, broke it up into 4 sections, and omitted 1 mile, from Belmont to Irving Park. And your article is even stupider, bc the one mile you omitted contains beautiful Belmont Harbor & the dog park, as well as biking past the Sidney Marovitz golf course, which is pretty, peaceful, and has a huge clubhouse to look at on the way.

Absurd pt. 2 by SP420 at 04/24/12 03:13PM Flag

You have literally taken the entire lakefront bike path, which runs from Sheridan Road in the north to 71st Street in the south, and broken it up into four paths. I'm not kidding, just map it out if you don't believe me - the video lists, "71st street to Museum Campus" (about 7 miles). Then, "Museum Campus to North Ave. Beach" (4 miles). Then, North Ave. Beach to Belmont (another 2.25 miles or so), and finally, Irving Park Rd. to Sheridan (2 miles, and where the path ends).

Absurd by SP420 at 04/24/12 03:13PM Flag

This piece is absurd, I really think a monkey may have written it. It claims to find, "the best lakefront biking paths in Chicago," but rather, just breaks the one lakefront bikepath in the city into four sections, then lists all four!!

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