Competitor Magazine May 2011 - Cover Photo Competitor Group, Inc.

First off, I want to thank all of you out there that have visited the bike trail pages on this site and have made these pages and photos so popular (Google knows about this stuff, of course). The bike trail pages (Chicago area) get a very large amount of website traffic.

Busse Woods Photo in May 2011 issue of Competitor magazine

Next, I wanted to mention that I had another bike trail photo posted in another hard copy magazine. I believe that this is a national magazine and it is distributed at sports shops, running stores and cycling stores.

The magazine is called Competitor and the photo from this site was published in the May 2011 issue with an article about Busse Woods on page 68. The Busse Woods Photo that was published is on the right and you can see the Busse Woods Bike Trail page and Photos here.

Unfortunately, I did not have my original digital copies of the photos of this trail when the writer asked for them so I had to send them the smaller versions that I had posted on the website. When they published the article they only included one photo and it was very small. I joked with friends how you would need a magnifying glass to see it. OK, it wasn’t really that small, but I really wish that I had the original digital copy!

After this article I was trying to remember the other bike trail articles and photos that were published in hard copy magazines and decided to put together a list for future reference. Here are the magazine articles published from this site (so far):

• Competitor Magazine – May 2011 issue, Small photo only of Busse Woods
• Way of the Wilds – Autumn 2010 Issue, An article about biking the Fox River Trail North – Edited and called “Places to Play” – got us a visit to Bill Kurtis’ House! (There is another blog entry about this one also).
• Family Time Magazine June 2010 issue An article that I interviewed for for a local freebie magazine. “Bicycling, Just You and Your Family”
• North Shore Magazine – June 2007 issue, Photo only – Green bay Trail

Oh yea, another fellow cyclist, Dale Kiffel,  who has contributed articles and quite a few photos to this site, has also gotten quite popular on our local weather channel (NBC (channel 5) in Chicago) and has had his 3 nature photos selected and broadcast with the weather segment of the NBC news in Chicago.

So I hope you enjoy the articles out here and even our (getting more popular) photos!