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Hi Andrew. Thank you for sharing this wonderful and inspirational video. Do you have the map available that linked the two rail trails? I would love to do it too B4 summer ends. Thanks.

Nice ride! I did this one a few months back, taking the Caledon up to Inglewood and then up the Forks of the Credit and connecting to the Cataract Trail to Elora. Always stop at Higher Ground in Belfountain for coffee and a butter tart. Also so close to the Cheltenham Badlands, which are quite striking.

That area is full of motorcyclists and exotic car drivers. As a motorcyclist, I don't ride that area that much due to that.

Over exercise

You are the king of Ontario Rail Trails! Thank you for sharing these two with us.

Been using the saddle for a few months now, close to 1000 km and I am impressed with the quality. I chose the version without the carbon base because I generally find the saddles' extra stiffness uncomfortable. This is the most comfortable saddle I have owned to date. Took two or three rides to find the right position. Picking up on a couple of other posts. Delivery was 5 days and the tracking info was spot on. Original I ordered the saddle for a bit of fun because I specialise in 3D printing and was curious. The Ryet saddle I received is not printed on a cheap filament printer but rather a higher quality material similar to that used by the name brand 3D saddles.

I cannot tell you how happy I am that I stumbled on your channel about a year ago or so. I have been cycling for years but used my home as the start and end of my sometimes daily cycling routes. I did not know much about the many old rail trails in Ontario. I have done about 7 so far this season and I am now addicted. The countryside and calm of the trail systems is such an escape from the daily grind. This one is next on my list. Keep up the great work!

There's a small section S of the missing bridge (~2 km?) which ends in the Zephyr Tract at Holborn Rd & Concession Rd 1 - only accessible from the south end.

Very nice looking route, can you share the details through Strava or some other cycling app? Would like to try this route myself.

Best purchase I ever made. I have had epilepsy since 1996, always biked. I can drive with active seizures but morning after Ive had 1 Im a little dizzy so not so smart. Im also REALLY sore all over. Pedaling a bike is not easy when it hurts to walk, enter the ebike. Thanks to an ebike the 3 or so days a week I have a seizure I can still get to my chiropractor a mere 12km away. Every other day of the year I have 3 fractures in my spine to worry about, cant even walk 200yards to the store so I bike. Ive had 3 doctors now recommend a bike or ebike for my health. Chiropractor and physio say bike for the good of your back, use an ebike to lessen the work but still get the excercise. Epilepsy specialist says bike for your mental health, do it every day the less stress you have the better your seizures will be. Use an ebike when everything hurts, it’ll stretch those swollen muscles and hurt less, you’ll still get your stress reduced and best of all it beats doing nothing which only makes things worse! Currently my ebike is a fat bike, Im looking to add a motor to 1 of my mountain bikes so I can still hit trails when Im sore all over. Its a lot more peaceful than being around cars, safer too. I hear a lot of funny things about speed with them, on my ebike I bike no faster than on my mountain bike. Average about 15km/h, I can even bike on the sidewalk without inconveniencing anyone walking.

This trail is top of my list to ride if I ever travel down south with a bike

I love the seclusion and peace of these rail trail videos. Good thing my ebike can go 80km some of these trails are really long but the peace is just so worth it

Maybe they had to pee 🤷‍♂️. Not uncommon to stop on a bush trail to go

Some beautiful views. I hope 1 day to get to ride a Ontario rail trail. Im in Ontario but have none up north😮

Why not from Thornton to Beeton and back? 59 km total.

Simcoe is a small lake lake ontario you can not safety walk out onto in the winter time.

A lot of drivers here(whole Canada!!)should be educated on how to share the road with motorcyclists,cyclists,pedestrians, and wildlife! Anger management needed ASAP for a lot of them.

Thanks for the idea of linking the trails, I know what I am doing this fall ! p.s. I a really glad you found your camera !

Great video ride as usual. That area up there is a beautiful part of the province. BTW: I've been meaning to ask you on previous videos: do you use a heart-rate monitor with your Garmin?

Thanks for reminding me why I stick to rail trails (partly because of your excellent channel). Btw, does the DJI have a “find my device” function? I think their drones do but not sure about their cameras.

Thanks for sharing. I'm thinking of heading up to the Caledon trail in a week or two. Is it still closed for construction in parts, or is it open again from Terra Cotta to Tottenham?

That section where you pulled off in Inglewood and mentioned there used to be tracks there will be converted to rail trail at some point in the future. It’ll start in streetsville and run north through Brampton along McLaughlin road and pst the Brampton airport and through Inglewood where you were and meet the elora cataract trail in cataract near the Bailey bridge and continue to Orangeville. It’ll be amazing….whenever it gets done.

I did the Elora Cataract again last week. You've inspired me to keep peddling. Thanks, Andrew. (and of course, my friends who keep inviting me)🙂👍

Thanks once again for taking us along for the ride! Glad that you had the presence of mind to stop and let racer dude blast by. So you eluded to bikepacking...any trips on the docket? Cheers!

When the Orangeville rail trail opens up it will link up.

If you enjoyed the solitude and tranquility of those trails you may enjoy some of the eastern rail trails eg. K&P Cataraqui trail great videos

A big part of my route planning and riding is predicated on minimizing as much as I can the time I have to interface with vehicles.

Thanks for the informative video. I'm thinking of getting into biking and your report has reinforced my impression that sticking to the dedicated bike trails is the safest way to go.

Crazy farmers too. I rode the Holland Marsh area Canal Rd loop yesterday and almost got run over by tractors twice. Riding the Simcoe Loop trail next week if you wanna join me. 🚲

Hi, last year you did a video of Peterborough and a detour through Bethany. One of the comments mentioned the Orangeville/Owen Sound trail. To update, the trail has been partially resurfaced from Orangeville to Dundalk 40 km. However the start in Orangeville is still under construction and closed to county road 11. Might be an adventure next year, mainly used by ATV, but they are respectful of cyclists.

It hurts a lot, don't waste your money with them!

Great job you got outside your comfort zone . You picked a nice trail to begin. I’m 65 on a fixie and started to ride fixed gear only around your age . It’s fun as hell . I’m running 35 mm gravel kings set up tubeless for all roads and 25 mm high pressure on my street only fixed gear . Great video

Its easy to buy a copy of the original, copies of copies in a way... So there is no guarantee you are buying from one of the more reputable sellers, its the wild west on that website

Mike Barry’s Sr. Hell and back

Definitely were going to dump something. And it could have been a body. My friend used to live at the end of a gravel road near King City. She tells me someone drove up to the end of the road and dumped a body on the other side of the berm just across from where their long driveway connected to the gravel road.

I rode fixies for most of my childhood up until I was 16 or 17. Money was tight so my dad would make my bikes from leftover parts. My favourite was one that had a long banana seat, an upright steel loop at the end of the seat that was as high as my head, and long curved harley davidson handlebars. None of my bikes had brakes. We lived on top of the escarpment so if I wanted to go down the hill and stay in control I'd have to pedal slowly but instead of pushing down I'd resist the pedals upward movements. A few times I just let fly and then I couldn't get my feet back on the pedals. I'd have to position myself to get a foot dragging on the ground to slow myself down enough to get my feet onto the pedals to resist them turning. That harley bike was a great little bike though. Easy to maintain. I think the chain finally snapped one day because I have memories of standing on one pedal, leaning over the bars, and pushing with my other leg like it was a weird skateboard.

Vivid imagination , reality you saw a car on the track and two people

4:19 my sentiments exactly but I was already thinking those individuals were up to something questionable when you first saw them in the distance. Ride safe.

Thanks, Andrew. Glad you weren't abducted by aliens on this one.👽👽👍😜

Creepy/cringeworthy or not, one has to ask when cycling alone: "What if I have an accident?". When I've done the Peterborough to Uxbridge trail (three times now over two decades) it was typical to not meet a soul for 30km stretches, and even then it was bozos on dirt bikes. Even with a cell-phone, it could be an hour or more until EMS could arrive to help you, and if you've been whizzing along (and the surface was very good in years past) you could hit a rut that produces a a bone protruding through flesh, and a large loss of blood. Those 'ruts'? Dirt biker burnout produced in many cases. I'm now mid 70s, and still able to do that distance given the right day and circumstance, but I wouldn't do it alone. In the case of the Sutton Trail now (it used to be a lot better kept decades ago), I'd also not do it alone. Ditto for a number of trails. The Cottontail Trail also comes to mind, albeit help would be a lot closer. Cardiac was absolutely right to raise the point.

I rode single speeds, 10-speeds, 27-speed front suspension mtn. bikes, 27-speed full suspension bikes and downhill bikes but, for the last 5 years, exclusively fat tire ebikes (one front suspension, current full suspension). Full suspension are always heavier and my ebike is 65 lbs without the battery. Tack on another 7 lbs for the battery). I love the ebike when I am tired and heading home or riding against a strong wind. Where I live(d), since buying the ebikes, there are minimal hills (south eastern Ontario and now, south western Ontario) so not a factor. Studies have shown that riding an ebike is beneficial. Tariffs are already in place in the U.S. and I suspect Canada will implement them too so get one before that happens if you're considering one.

I'm guessing water quality in Lake Ontario was pretty abysmal during Victorian times

Liked your video and story. Reminds me of the weirdest thing that happened to me on a trail. I had recently moved to Ottawa and was on a trail to do some photography. It was very early Morning. Sun was about to come up. I am about to take a pic of a huge dew shimmering spiderweb, when I hear a noise behind me, like wood being dragged on gravel. I turn around and there is this woman with a huge beach towel over her left shoulder. Wearing flipflops. In her right hand is a full size baseball bat. And she kind of moves the huge towel to partially cover the bat. I say hello to her. She just keeps looking straight ahead and says nothing. I am spooked and figure I will just go on with my business and not aggravate this person. I turn for less than 10 seconds to take the spiderweb shot. I look up expecting to see this weird lady walking down the trail. But when I turn back around she is gone. I could see up and down the trail for 100 yards. Nothing. I headed back to my car looking over my shoulder. I told my wife what I had experienced and she looked up online some old news stories about the trail. Seems a woman was killed 3 years earlier on that trail by her husband. Beat her with a baseball bat. I have been on that trail again many times. The lady has not reappeared to me.

I could be wrong but I don't think Lake Ontario freezes over but I know Lake Simcoe does, because I'm from that area.

My guess is that it’s some newbie 4X4 enthusiasts thinking they had just found a great off-road route for their vehicle.

Thank you for introducing a new rail trail in Ontario!

another entertaining episode- thanks for posting

You’re right, it’s the trail length for me. The distance and time it would take to get there would mean I would want a bit longer of a ride. Plus looks a little under maintained. Would make a nice segment of a race course I would think though.

Great segue video to Halloween season. 🎃

Well I got drawn in by the title. Yes, sometimes you see things and you don’t really know what’s going on. It could be something completely innocent or maybe not! It then just stays in your mind. It was quite eerie though. A very moody atmosphere. Great video.