ILLINI WEEKEND GETAWAY
THE CHAMPAIGN OF RIDES!
Updates
General Company
Wide Updates
Illini Weekend Getaway
Specific Updates for the 2024 Season
5/14/24
- The in town cue sheet and map for the Champaign
hotel has been posted. Click
Here for more information.
5/13/24
- The north loop now features a stop at the Prairie
Fruits Farm and Creamery.
Come explore the farm, learn
more about the milking process, and learn how their
cheeses and gelatos go from their farm to your fridge! Click
Here for more information.
- The Sidney Dairy Barn is now open from 2:00 -
7:00 pm both Saturday and Sunday.
- All supported
facilities, services, and in town cycling routes
for the Champaign hotel have been overlaid
on satellite imagery. Click
Here for more information.
- The daily schedules for Peoria
Charter oach busses have been added to the daily
public transportation schedules between Chicago
and Champaign. Click
Here for more information.
4/17/24
12/28/23
- The supported hotel and and transportation staging
point before the start of the event has changed
to the Hampton Inn in Urbana. Click
Here for more information.
12/16/23
- Registration is now open for the 2024 Illini
Weekend Getaway! Click
Here to register!
12/15/23
- We are still securing our supported hotel for
the event. More information will be coming soon!
- If you will not be able to check in and attend
the opening meeting on Friday evening, we will
give you your registration materials after
the opening meeting at 8:00
am on the first day you want to ride and no longer
leave them at the front desk
of the hotel for you to pick up when you check in.
- The price of the full weekend has increased
by $20.00 and the price
of one riding day only has increased by $10.00. Click
Here for more information about
our pricing schedule.
- We now directly accept credit card payments
but will charge a 3.6% surcharge to cover credit
card processing fees. If you do not want to pay
this surcharge you may submit your payment to
us through Zelle or
check or money order instead.
- The price of all transportation services has
increased by $10.00 each way.
- The price of the Mechanical Support Plan has
increased by $10.00 if you register during regular
registration, $16.00 if you register during late
registration, and $20.00 if you register the
day of the event.
- Web site updated with 2024 dates.
- The Illini Weekend Getaway will occur on
May 17th - 19th, 2024.
Major Previous Illini Weekend Getaway
Specific Updates
- The regular registration price of the full
weekend has increased by $6.00 from $99.00 to
$105.00 and the price of the transportation services
between Chicago and Champaign has increased by
$10.00 each way. The
regular registration price of one day only registration
has not changed. Click
Here for more information about
our pricing schedule.
- The late registration fee has increased by
$5.00 from $25.00 to $30.00 per day.
- We have added "e-bike" as an additional
option for the type of bike you will be transporting.
There will be an additional $30.00 fee to transport
e-bikes on our transportation service each way.
This is because e-bikes generally require special
handling and care since they are are typically
heavier and/or take up more room in our vehicles
than standard upright bicycles and therefore
cannot be transported on any outside roof racks
and must be transported inside a support vehicle.
- If you register using a paper registration
form:
- You can now submit your payment through Zelle.
- We no longer have incoming fax service
so you can't send us a copy of your completed
form this way any more.
- If you sign up for the Mechanical Support Plan,
you will need to specifically request the pre-ride
inspection yourself as we will not be able to
search out each participant individually to provide
it.
- Registration procedures for postponed 2020
participants posted. Unfortunately, we can only
allow postponed 2020 participants to register
for an event at
the original 2020 pricing schedule one time. Click
Here for more information.
- No refunds will be issued in the event we are
unable to run an event due to circumstances
beyond our control. These circumstances include
but
are not limited to disasters (natural and/or
manmade), pandemics, war, acts of terrorism,
government regulations, strikes, civil disorder,
curtailment of transportation facilities,
or acts of God. (Force Majure)
- If you want to pay directly at the Chicago parking
garage, the kiosk there now automatically calculates
and charges you the total amount owed after you
leave based on the ticket you received when you
entered. It no longer only issues tickets for the
current day one at a time. You no longer need to
purchase enough single day tickets that total to
the correct amount due for the total amount of
time you will leave your car parked there in advance
or leave all the tickets clearly displayed on your
dashboard so the garage staff knows you have paid. Click
Here for more information.
- There will be an additional $30.00 fee to transport
bicycles that require special
handing and care (recumbents, e-bikes, tandems, etc.) on any transportation
service. However a tandem bicycle will not incur
an additional
fee if both people riding it register for the same
transportation service.
- Only online registration will be available four
weeks before the start of the event in order to
assure that we receive all of your information
and payment in a timely manner due to laspes in
mail service. This includes all late registrations. Click
Here for more information.
- The south loop now features a stop at the Sidney
Dairy Barn in the middle of the route. Stop in
and and enjoy the world's best ice cream! Click
Here for more information.
- A cue sheet and map for the walking route from
the Amtrak train station to the supported hotel
has been posted. Click
Here for more information.
- We will now set up at the transportation staging
point in Chicago beginning at 7:30 am on Friday
(previously 7:00 am) to accept bicycles and baggage
to transport to Champaign.
- Our main opening meeting will be held at 7:30
pm in the Bailey Room in the Champaign hotel. Click
Here for more information.
- WE
NO LONGER ISSUE ANY REFUNDS AT ANY TIME FOR
ANY REASON. If you do not participate
and would like a refund you
MUST purchase an individual travel insurance
plan, which will reimburse you according
to the plan coverage.Click
Here for more information about
our refund policy.
- Unfortunately the Live Grit Triathlon Store is
no longer in business and we have renamed the event
to the "Illini" Weekend Getaway.
- We now allow trikes (any bicycle with three or
more wheels) to participate in our events. However,
all participants riding trikes must provide their
own on road support for them at all times because
we cannot guarantee that we will be able to easily
or quickly transport them off the road in any support
vehicle in case of mechanical breakdown. In addition,
we still cannot accomodate any trikes on any of
our transportation services. Click
Here for more information.
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