Rerun: Could you ride a bike around it in one day?

Because I am in a place where I can enjoy the beauty, the vastness and magnificence of the Great Lakes, I am recycling a post from last year. Someday, I hope to ride a bike around Lake Michigan. If anyone has experience doing that, don't hesitate to leave any tips and advice....

While traveling in Florida, in a chance encounter, my husband was asked about Lake Michigan. The gentleman wanted to know if Lake Michigan was a fresh or salty body of water.
Could you ride a bike around it in one day?
Could you see the other shore?

These questions surprised us, as the magnitude and majesty of Lake Michigan are so obvious to us living here in Chicago.

Here are the facts.
Lake Michigan is the third largest of the Great Lakes (Superior and Huron being larger), and the sixth largest fresh-water lake in the world.
It's shoreline is about 1600 miles long, which means it would take a cyclist traveling at the average clip of 16 miles per hour 100 hours to circumnavigate it. Allowing eight hours of actual cycling per day (hey, we're talking an ambitious cyclist here), and no days off, he or she could complete the trip in 12.5 days.
For the record, the surface area of Lake Michigan is 22,300 square miles, which makes it a little more than a third of the size of the state of Florida.

Comments

[John]

If you want to do a tour, research it, plan it, set a date, and do it. Otherwise you may put it off till your no longer able to ride.

[Leah]

I love the idea of a ride around Lake Michigan! It seems like the perfect fundraising ride for a lake conservation group. To your knowledge, is anyone doing this already?

[Justyna]

Leah, I don't know of any such efforts yet, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I haven't done any of the research that John, above, suggests. My fantasy of doing this ride is complicated by the fact that my children are still relatively young, and I would like to do it with them and my husband. I'm sure people have done the ride, even with kids, and I would love to hear of their experiences. Right now, I'm a complete novice...

[birogeri]

Here in Hungary we have the largest lake in Central Europe (Balaton) and fortunately, it has bike lanes all over its perimeter. It's about a 220km (137 mile) long journey, it can be done in 12-13 hours.
Me and my friends rode it around last year in two days, but we are planning to do it in one day this summer.
This is the situation :)

[Stacey]

There are many journals of rides around the lake on crazyguyonabike.com, including a couple by Chicago's Bob K.

[Justyna]

As I said, I have done no research whatsoever on this topic. Given that this project may be 3-4 years away, it's probably not too early to start. Thank you so much for the link. It's funny how you can spend time on the internet and never run across something :)
Much obliged. --J.