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Join Pussanee and me for a Bike and Brew event. Sugar Grove weather calls for Sunny skies with a high near 55F and Winds ENE at 10 to 15 mph. This route takes us into the east and north wind with tail winds on the return trip. Nice easy bike and brew ride on the scenic and paved Virgil Gilman and Fox River Trails. If you are a little slower, no problem we will ride the pace of the slowest rider. E-bikes are most welcome. Great River views along the Fox River on the way. Between Batavia and the North Aurora Dam, the Fox River Trail runs along both sides of the river, with the east bank section running through the very beautiful Red Oak and Glenwood Park Forest Preserves. Also in Aurora, the trail runs along both sides of the river for about a mile, between East Illinois Street and East New York Street. The Virgil Gilman has varying landscape, lots of awesome bridges, nice mixtures of open fields and shade cover and travels from quiet forest and prairie lands to bustling neighborhoods in just 11.3 miles, linking a woodsy community college campus with the Village of Montgomery. All paved trails except about 100 yards of limestone on the Virgil, so any bike is fine. We will be on our tandem road bike. There is about a ½ mile road connection through an Industrial area. Midway stop is at Sturdy Shelter Brewing for a fine craft beer. The first beer for all riders at Sturdy Shelter is on Pussanee and me. If you don't drink beer then your soft drink is on us. Please kindly register due to remote start. Please park in the back of the College by the bike trail. We will be back before 5pm, unless we are not. This is my 34 mile route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45239392