Just after getting off the South Shore train on Saturday, Chicago residents, from left, Serge Lubomudrov, Alex Durbak and Bob (he didn't give his last name) depart for brewery tour on their bikes. Tribune Photo/JOSEPH DITS
Three Chicago men boarded a South Shore train bound for South Bend – a city they’d never visited before – to make a local brewery tour Saturday on their bikes.
What sparked the idea was that, starting Saturday, the commuter line now allows passengers to take their bikes on board.
They were among a few hearty cyclists who dressed for the elements and broke in the new service, which will run only on certain trains on Saturdays and Sundays through the end of October.
Never mind the 45-mile-per-hour gusts that were in the forecast. Or that snow flurries had already begun.
“We were going to do a larger route and go to Elkhart,” said Alex Durbak. But, because of the severe weather, he said and his two friends would stick with the Evil Czech in Mishawaka and the Crooked Ewe and South Bend Brew Werks in South Bend. They’ve done brewery tours in Chicago, too.
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