Grand Illinois Trail Ride News Updates Grand Illinois Trail Ride Registration Page

The bicycle riders guide to The Grand Illinois Trail Ride gives you information to ride the course in segments (sections), or riding it all at once, thru-bike style. With complete GPS maps and detailed section information, kept current by its users, you'll have everything you need to make your Grand Illinois Trail Ride most enjoyable. How do you like to ride? See Riding Styles.


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Sep 24 Upgrade Update Erasure?

Some years ago a few users, who felt themselves tech savvy asked me if they could update the site. I felt obliged since this site is for the users of the Grand Illinois Trail. It was built by one user on the Grand Illinois Trail ride, me, and this seemed to be a prospect […]

Section 2 – Lansing to Joliet

We rode from Lansing to Joliet on two different days (late April, 2016 and May 22, 2016) as part of a cross-state adventure. My report plus pictures is on my blog at www.jeannemeeks.com under the Outdoor Adventure tab. The blog post is entitled “Day 1 – Epic Bike Adventure” and covers the Indiana border […]

2013-001 Ron Bolin GIT Loop Tour

Ron Bolin of Homer Glen completed a Grand Illinois Trail Ride in 2013. He documented his experience, took some great pictures, and posted them here. Ron is a Grand Illinois Trail Ride Trailblazer.

Thanks Ron!

See Ron’s Profile here: http://www.gitride.com/trailblazer-profile-ron-bolin/

See Rons Trip Report Here: http://www.gitride.com/help/forum/general-group15/rider-hall-of-fame-forum84/2013-001-ron-bolin-thread35/

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GITride is bicyclist tech support on the Grand Illinois Trail

GITride is bicyclist tech support on the Grand Illinois Trail? PRE LAUNCH: The site is beginning to behave as it should technically, and we are coming into peak season on the Grand Illinois Trail Ride. The Pre-launch preview is available for the large crowd of folks made up of teachers and students at all levels, […]

GITride website improved to enhance bicyclist user experience

We’re pleased to announce that the website backbone has been reinforced. It’s stronger, faster. Able to make your experience here quicker and more gratifying.

If you were a visitor of GITride.com over the last few weeks, you wouldn’t have noticed anything different.

However, if you attempted to log in and actually use the collection […]

Trail Reports are a great way to keep everybody in the Loop

The Grand Illinois Trail Ride is a top notch USA athletic tourist venue in Northern Illinois. We were looking for a better way to keep trail information updated; both for those who use it, and those who maintain it. Trail Reports seemed to be the answer.

Trail reports come to the site from two […]

Grand Illinois Trail Ride loaded with helpful rider features

The Grand Illinois Trail Ride is loaded with helpful rider features. We are moving right along with our beta phase, which means we are tweaking features installed on the website

By registering, you are participating in this beta stage and we certainly do appreciate your help. You contribute to the project […]

GrandIllinoisTrailRide.com (GITride.com) entering Beta Phase

Revised: July 30, 2013

WE ARE IN BETA:

Most of the features are installed, live and ready for use.

Register now to participate in the beta testing process.

You can use the site, download information, post messages, & register.

Please feel free to use the site, post condition reports, enter your up-to-date travel information, post […]

GITride is updating. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU?

YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO USE THE SITE. YOU MAY REGISTER, and EVEN POST PUBLIC MESSAGES. THE SYSTEM WILL BE VERY SLOW. PAGES MAY TAKE TWENTY SECONDS OR MORE TO APPEAR.

WE EXPECT THAT BY JULY 1st WE WILL BE IN THE POSITION TO DEVELOP A LAUNCH DATE.

FRIENDS OF THE SITE […]

A NEW RESOURCE FOR THE GIT

WE ARE UPDATING,

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A LOG OF THE 2006 BIKE RIDE PLEASE GO TO:

http://legacy.gitride.com