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Nana, Phoenix, Bridgeport Pasty to Fuel Weekend Bike Ride

By Casey Cora | September 5, 2014 7:09am
 Bridgeport Pasty is among several restaurants providing food for Sunday's Four Star Bike and Chow.
Bridgeport Pasty is among several restaurants providing food for Sunday's Four Star Bike and Chow.
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BRIDGEPORT — Pierogies and pistachio cake, pasties and pizza.

Those are just some of the local treats that'll help fuel cyclists at Sunday's Four Star Bike and Chow, organized by the Active Transportation Alliance.

And Bridgeport and Chinatown restaurants will be among the day's culinary highlights.

Riders will launch at the University of Illinois at Chicago campus and choose one of four courses — 12, 20, 40 or 62 miles, each one dipping farther south, all the way to neighborhoods like Hegewisch, Pullman and Calumet Park. 

Along the way, they'll stop at one of four rest areas — Bridgeport's McGuane Park, the Chicago Velo Campus in South Chicago, the Historic Pullman Foundation and Chinatown's Ping Tom Memorial Park — to refuel with water stations and food vendors, who will trade punch cards for food samples.

At McGuane, riders can scarf down pasties (think handheld meat pies) from Bridgeport Pasty, and pistachio rum cake from Nana Organic

At Ping Tom Park, riders can grab a slice of Lou Malnati's pizza or pick up food from a pair of Chinatown restaurants, New Furama or Phoenix

There's still time to sign up: Online registration closes Saturday, and riders can sign up on Sunday, too.

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