Attn. Central Illinois Bent Riders

harryo said:

I am planning an informal ride starting from LeRoy, IL, which is 20 miles southeast of
Bloomington-Normal, this Saturday, Aug. 16th. The start time is negotiatable, whatever works for
the most riders. Route and distance is also negotiatable. If anyone in the Central Illinois area
just wants to get together for a ride and some enjoyable fellowship, email me and we will get
something set up. My wife and I will be riding Saturday anyway and it would be great to meet some
new friends and to get some old ones together again. All riders, of all skill levels, are welcome.
This is an unsupported ride for the pure fun of riding.

There are roads in this area that actually have hills, curves and trees along them, despite being in
the middle of "The Great Illinois Corn Desert". [1] One of the more attractive areas in East Central
Illinois to ride, if I may immodestly say so.

[1] So called by Mike Stern in an article in RCN.

Tom Sherman - Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)

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I am planning an informal ride starting from LeRoy, IL, which is 20 miles southeast of
Bloomington-Normal, this Saturday, Aug. 16th. The start time is negotiatable, whatever works for
the most riders. Route and distance is also negotiatable. If anyone in the Central Illinois area
just wants to get together for a ride and some enjoyable fellowship, email me and we will get
something set up. My wife and I will be riding Saturday anyway and it would be great to meet some
new friends and to get some old ones together again. All riders, of all skill levels, are welcome.
This is an unsupported ride for the pure fun of riding.

Harry Jiles

I had a response from someone who might not be able to ride Saturday, so if anyone can ride Sunday
afternoon, let me know. I picked Saturday because the weather forecast for Sunday has a chance of
showers but that could change. I will ride both days, if there is interest, and if there aren't
thunderstorms or torrential downpours. I don't mind a little rain but drenching rain and lightning
aren't my favorites!

Harry Jiles

harryo said:

I had a response from someone who might not be able to ride Saturday, so if anyone can ride Sunday
afternoon, let me know. I picked Saturday because the weather forecast for Sunday has a chance of
showers but that could change. I will ride both days, if there is interest, and if there aren't
thunderstorms or torrential downpours. I don't mind a little rain but drenching rain and lightning
aren't my favorites!

Harry,

It only rains when I plan the ride.

Tom Sherman - Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)

Harry Thanks for the invite but we are going over to Keosauqua Ia this weekend and ride in Van Buren
Co on both Saturday and sunday. Dave [email hidden] (harryo) wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I am planning an informal ride starting from LeRoy, IL, which is 20 miles southeast of
Bloomington-Normal, this Saturday, Aug. 16th. The start time is negotiatable, whatever works for
the most riders. Route and distance is also negotiatable. If anyone in the Central Illinois area
just wants to get together for a ride and some enjoyable fellowship, email me and we will get
something set up. My wife and I will be riding Saturday anyway and it would be great to meet some
new friends and to get some old ones together again. All riders, of all skill levels, are welcome.
This is an unsupported ride for the pure fun of riding.

Harry Jiles

Tom Sherman <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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There are roads in this area that actually have hills, curves and trees along them, despite being
in the middle of "The Great Illinois Corn Desert". [1] One of the more attractive areas in East
Central Illinois to ride, if I may immodestly say so.

[1] So called by Mike Stern in an article in RCN.

I just did one of my favorite routes this evening. It is a loop along the top of the glacial
moraine which runs from just north of LeRoy to several miles east of Saybrook. It has all that Tom
mentions. Another such route is one Tom, himself, put together and follows the North Fork of the
Salt Creek, from LeRoy to the North Fork boat access at Clinton Lake, and back. This one is always
great but is really nice in the fall, when the leaves are showing color. We can do either of these,
or both, this weekend.

Harry

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harryo said:

I had a response from someone who might not be able to ride Saturday, so if anyone can ride
Sunday afternoon, let me know. I picked Saturday because the weather forecast for Sunday has a
chance of showers but that could change. I will ride both days, if there is interest, and if
there aren't thunderstorms or torrential downpours. I don't mind a little rain but drenching
rain and lightning aren't my favorites!

Harry,

It only rains when I plan the ride.

Tom Sherman - Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)

Right, Tom! How could I forget?

Harry

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Harry Thanks for the invite but we are going over to Keosauqua Ia this weekend and ride in Van
Buren Co on both Saturday and sunday. Dave

Maybe another time, Dave. What I would like to do is get the CIRC(Central Illinois Recumbent
Community) active again. I didn't get involved with CIRC until the summer of 2000, when I started
riding a bike again, after almost 20 years of not riding, and got my 1st bent. The group was fairly
active that year and had been very active in previous years, but it has since become almost
defunct. I think this is mainly because several members, who were very active in planning rides,
moved from the area.

I, myself, seem to have had less personal time to ride with a group during the last couple of
summers but I am going to make an effort to try and plan more group rides in the future and
hopefully, others will respond, both to ride and plan other rides. There is a group set up on Yahoo
Groups, where interested parties can join an email list for communicating with each other. Right now
there are only 14 members. Hopefully we can grow that number and get the group active again.

For anyone interested, you can join the email list, or just view past and present messages at:

groups.yahoo.comcentralillinoisrecumbentOpen ↗

Harry

Mike Haggerty and myself are meeting at tomorrow morning, 8/16, at Woody's truck stop in LeRoy, to
do a ride. There might be a couple of ohers show up. also. We will either ride Tom Sherman's loop to
Clinton Lake NFA and back or north to Moraine View State Park and then east, along the moraine, and
back. We can get lunch at Woody's after the ride. If anyone else wants to show up, they are
certainly welcome. The plan is to start by 9:00 am.

Harry