The Bearings, Vol 8, No 21
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
The Bearings publishes a detailed Christmas feature describing the famous 100-mile Elgin-Aurora century course, tracing the route from Washington Boulevard westward through Oak Park and Maywood to Elgin, south through St. Charles, Geneva, and Aurora, and back through Naperville and Riverside — a route beloved by Chicago's hardiest centurions.
- Nature and the Chicago Wheelmen
An introductory essay reflects on how Chicago was built on desolate swamps yet lies within an hour's ride of some of the most beautiful prairie scenery in Illinois, with the Elgin-Aurora course singled out as a wheelmen's paradise of gravelled roads, rolling hills, Fox River views, and generous farmhouses.
- Refreshment Stops Along the Course
The feature describes the classic stopping points for century riders: the Bloomingdale dairy that once gave free milk but now charges ten cents a quart, the old farmer near the Dunham stock farm on the Elgin-Aurora stretch, and the Hotel Bishop at Aurora whose landlord welcomes cyclists at any hour.