Hi David your looking good, yes we found another trail near our place. Interesting it is just seeing some of these new places, thanks for sharing that meet ride with us.take care.
Thanks Al. It was a lot of fun. As a kid, it seemed all us kids knew every square foot of our neighborhood. But as adults we usually don't do that exploring but it was really fun!
30.4 miles is nothing to sneeze at especially on a day that you didn't want to get up and moving! Great ride today, David. When I ran the Susquehanna River in my jet rig for smallmouth bass, I used to love to explore out of the way places where no other anglers frequented. As for my trike explorations, I mainly stick to the trails. Our local roadways here in Southern Lancaster County (Pa.) are so "unfriendly" (unsafe) to bike/trike riding. Take care & Keep on Triking!
Hi Tom. It turned out to be a really great day and I was sure it would be the day that even with riding I'd continue to feel lousy. But the trike came though! Again! And exploring really turned out to be a lot of fun. I was lucky that the roads I had to ride on are wide and have little traffic. The busier roads have bike paths set away from the street so that was great.
My wife and I love exploring on our trikes. We’ve discovered a bunch of neighborhoods we never knew existed and met some really nice people. We also enjoy looking at the different types of landscaping, plants and houses. Thanks for sharing your rides David.
It was. lot of fun. And yes, I always like an area where every house it different. Plus, there's a wide home age range as well which is interesting to see. Ended up doing a similar ride today.
I I don’t know how you do it David, your amazingly tough man. I: on kemo. To been fighting it since 2007 I have one more treatment to go and I go for another pet scan. Going to try and fide tomorrow looks like a great day. You a inspiration to me.
Thanks Rich. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but I've had a lot of experience having to function when not feeling well and that has helped me getting through chemo. The thing I know is, I honestly always feel better after going for a ride so I force myself to go. I was supposed to have chemo today but my platelet count was too low so they canceled it. Got to go for another ride instead! I hope your get through your treatment and win your battle! Good luck!
Glad to see the ride made ya feel better! Oh, being the fact that I live on pain medication because of my spinal cord injury I have a Bike Tracker app on my phone that records all the good info and a tab with a map showing the route I was traveling, I can expand the map out and figure how to get home when I get lost lol.
I'm a big fan of apps that make cycling better. And there are a lot of them out there. So far I've never gotten lost but there are times when I get so into the joy of riding that I'll suddenly look around and wonder, how did I get here? That scares me a bit but it's also kind of cool!
@@DavidRidesaTrike Yup, your having a great time (and lose track of time) My local area I had to move in with my mom after my dad passed a few years back...so I am pedaling on a lot of the same streets I did as a kid...but up at my cabin it's all new terrain...wish it would stop raining so often lol
@@derykmacleod4979 That has to be a weird sensation riding on the same streets you did as a kid. Even driving through my old neighborhood is always a weird sensation. While it's still the same, it also feels so different. Our non-stop rain finally ended a few days ago. At least for a while. Now we have sun and 90° temps. I'll take it!
@@DavidRidesaTrike the changes from the past, kind of make me smile, as time marches on. Growing up, I had a friend who lived on the corner house with a really steep side street hill, and the street his house was on had a long gradual hill. As kids, we usually avoided pedaling up the steep hill, only liked coasting down it. I can still pedal up that steep hill with a little effort, so that makes me feel good.
Ramble on David, it looks like you had fun exploring new roads that were less traveled. My wife and I got in 14 miles yesterday on the Pumpkinvine Trail in Shipshewanna In. It was our first time out since April 4th because of the cold weather. Keep on keeping on David!
Thanks Terry. It was a lot of fun! And yep, the weather has been pretty tough on us trikers this year. However today it was 84° here and supposed to be in the 80s all week. And NO RAIN!
Yes, l love exploring. Glad you had the opportunity to do it. I had been exploring on a DF for years and though I can’t get as remote on a RT I can do it more often and really enjoy it more. Loved your relive segment for this ride. I had thought about using it a while back but decided that most of my rides here in the islands wouldn’t warrant it. While I’m sure it would be easy to use, It would just be another thing to manage on my ride. Hope you get your wish for warm riding this week. I’m still waiting for less rain and wind here so I can continue my around the island ride.
It was fun! Once again, it reminded me of exploring when I was a kid. Relive is cool but I only use it periodically at best since most of my rides are rides I've done countless times already. I was supposed to have chemo today but my platelet level was too low so I got to go for a ride instead. 82° and partly cloudy. Finally!
Glad for the update video. Much appreciate your posts. Inspiring for this oldie - been sick the last couple of weeks, getting better, and itchy to get back to riding. Keep hanging in there!
Great ride and so,happy to see you feeling so strong. 25 miles is a helluva ride with everything you are going through. The weather looks super and good to see you not wearing winter gear. We all like to go,of course to,explore and you seem to have found some nice diversions. Just getting out of the house and on the trike fixes our mood rapidly. Keep going buddy.
Hi Mark, hope you're doing well! That ride was fun. Actually got in 30 miles that day. Today was supposed to be chemo but my platelet count was too low so I got to ride again. 84°. Finally! And it's supposed to be in the 80s all week.
@@DavidRidesaTrike hasn’t been over 50 in the month I have been back from Florida. Wind has been 20-25 mph+ every day but I still go out. Finally getting warmth starting Thursday. Stay well. I hope,your treatments go well with no side effects. Keep triking and posting.
@@markfeldman6509 the only good thing about the extended cold is that it makes the warm weather feel that much better. 80° right now and going up to close to 90°. I should get in a lot of riding for the next few months. Stay well!
@@DavidRidesaTrike it’s supposed to warm up this weekend to 70 or so. I just ride the Cape Cod canal this morning in 48 degree temps and winds 30-40 mph. Too windy for the seagulls to get airborne. It’s been the coldest and windiest spring on record here! Stay well!
You look great David! I did a new trail yesterday and yes exploring on a trike is lot of fun. On my regular trail last week I confirmed what I thought I saw a week before when a Florida Panther slowly stepped out onto the trail about 60ft in front of me. We were about the same eye level and now it’s a little more tense going through that area hoping he doesn’t mistake my trike as an animal about the same size as him! Take care brother.
David...loved the rambling ride and super happy that you got to feeling better and explored! What a great route (love the mapping software at the end). You sound and look great! I have my reservation made at Fishlake Beach in Volo, Ill for the DRAT Ride. I will be getting in with my travel trailer on the 11th and departing on the 13th. It looks to be about a 30 minute drive from the camp to the Des Plaines River Trail. Will depart your ride on the 13th for Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to assist with our bike give-away (300 bikes) to the indigenous youth. ruclips.net/video/aHZUibDpFrI/видео.html I am excited to meet you and the other riders for the DRAT ride and then heading to the Bad Lands!
That sounds about right regarding Volo being around 30 minutes to the start of the ride. And that program in the Badlands is wonderful! Some friends and I stopped at the Badlands back in 1977 on our way to go camping in Yellowstone. I kept thinking it looked like the surface of the moon. And I had NO idea people lived there! As I watched the video I kept thinking that there are so many Americans who have no idea how lucky they are to have been born into the lives they have.
@@DavidRidesaTrike I bet that was a memorable trip back in 77! Thanks for the Volo info. It was the nearest RV campground I could find. Yes...most Americans do not realize how impoverished the Reservations are and the desperate needs there. I am deeply thankful and honored to be able to be a part of this giving program. And, with bikes...even makes it better! 🙂
@@rangerk9 It was a great adventure. Growing up in Chicago and never really traveling before that, I had never even seen a mountain. So arriving in SD and seeing the Badlands, followed by the Black Hills, the bison, Mt. Rushmore and then Yellowstone and the Tetons was the best adventure of my life. I think what you're doing is truly a wonderful thing. Thanks for doing it!
David, great video, as always. I also love to discover new routes and am also riding my spring alternative routes while waiting for the DPRT to dry out. What trail or road were you on with the trail that runs along it? You said it was fairly new and I don't think I've seen it before. I've take a few rides down to Busse Woods this spring. Some of the north-south roads in Arlington Heights are great to ride. I've found that as I discover more little trails and friendly side streets, that I can connect a nice and pleasant ride through the 'burbs. Riding down to Busse Woods from Wheeling, riding around the trail there and then back to Wheeling is about 30 miles.
Hi Jon. I thought of you when I was doing that ride - wondering where you've been riding. I saw that ride down to Busse. That looked like a nice ride. The road with the trail on it was Everett. There's a bike path that goes up Portwine from Deerfield Rd. all the way to Everett. Then if you turn left there there's a trail on the north side of the street that goes about halfway and then it continues on the south side of Everett. Before you get to St. Mary's/Daniel Wright FB entrance, it turns into the forest preserve and you end up on the loop that goes through Daniel Wright. You can connect from there to the DPRT. I did it again today and the DPRT is absolutely fine from the bridge in Half Day FP/Daniel Wright, all the way to Deerfield. Hopefully in a couple days that will be passable.
You are an inspiration
Thanks Sam. I'm not good at accepting compliments so I'll just say thanks!
Hi David your looking good, yes we found another trail near our place. Interesting it is just seeing some of these new places, thanks for sharing that meet ride with us.take care.
Hi Paul, it is always fun to find a new place to ride and make it part of or an alternative to the "usual." Thanks for watching!
Cruising on flooded trails is pretty cool
But not so much fun when you misjudge and get soaked. Haven't done that in a while though.
Good to see you 😀 Hugs
Thanks and back atcha!
Your winging it sounds good! Ride well and thanks for sharing
Thanks! It was fun to do.
Hey David just checking in to see how you're doing. I hope ok. You continue to be an inspiration to me.
Thanks Chris. All is good!
Good job ! Be well !
Thank you, I will!
Looking super! Thanks for making this video
Thank you!
Yes indeed! Love the fact that you can see instead of just looking down like you do on a normal bike!
It's a world of difference!
I love your idea of local exploration. I agree there are many streets not traveled because you simply "pass them by".
Keep going.
Thanks Al. It was a lot of fun. As a kid, it seemed all us kids knew every square foot of our neighborhood. But as adults we usually don't do that exploring but it was really fun!
Find a new bike pass are really really fun to find. Do this often. Keep enjoying life day take care
Thanks Paul. When I stumble onto a new bike path I keep hoping for the trail to go on and on …
Another for another ride … sounds like a great theme … every day is a good day for a ride!
it does!
We went from the 40s on Friday to 84° today and 80s all week. It sure feels good.
@@DavidRidesaTrike Hoping for uppers 50’s this week. Almost shorts weather
@@PedalPushinAK 👍🩳
Great to see you having so much fun, David. Thanks for sharing those roads less traveled.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it And summer hit us this week. 40s on Friday, 90 today!
30.4 miles is nothing to sneeze at especially on a day that you didn't want to get up and moving! Great ride today, David. When I ran the Susquehanna River in my jet rig for smallmouth bass, I used to love to explore out of the way places where no other anglers frequented. As for my trike explorations, I mainly stick to the trails. Our local roadways here in Southern Lancaster County (Pa.) are so "unfriendly" (unsafe) to bike/trike riding. Take care & Keep on Triking!
Hi Tom. It turned out to be a really great day and I was sure it would be the day that even with riding I'd continue to feel lousy. But the trike came though! Again! And exploring really turned out to be a lot of fun. I was lucky that the roads I had to ride on are wide and have little traffic. The busier roads have bike paths set away from the street so that was great.
Wow David , keep on fighting man, looks like your moving along pretty good there ! Tha k you for the inspiration.
Thanks. Sometimes the body still gets moving pretty good!
My wife and I love exploring on our trikes. We’ve discovered a bunch of neighborhoods we never knew existed and met some really nice people. We also enjoy looking at the different types of landscaping, plants and houses. Thanks for sharing your rides David.
Keep on persevering David you encourage me!
It was. lot of fun. And yes, I always like an area where every house it different. Plus, there's a wide home age range as well which is interesting to see. Ended up doing a similar ride today.
I I don’t know how you do it David, your amazingly tough man. I: on kemo. To been fighting it since 2007 I have one more treatment to go and I go for another pet scan. Going to try and fide tomorrow looks like a great day. You a inspiration to me.
Thanks Rich. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but I've had a lot of experience having to function when not feeling well and that has helped me getting through chemo. The thing I know is, I honestly always feel better after going for a ride so I force myself to go.
I was supposed to have chemo today but my platelet count was too low so they canceled it. Got to go for another ride instead!
I hope your get through your treatment and win your battle! Good luck!
So happy to see you again on your Trike buddy . So cool !
Thanks, and it's great to be out in the nice weather!
Fun exploring on a no-balance-required ride!
The overhead route mapping was interesting.
That video mapping is from a free app. Kinda cool. Here's the link if you're interested - www.relive.cc/?hl=en
Glad to see the ride made ya feel better! Oh, being the fact that I live on pain medication because of my spinal cord injury I have a Bike Tracker app on my phone that records all the good info and a tab with a map showing the route I was traveling, I can expand the map out and figure how to get home when I get lost lol.
I'm a big fan of apps that make cycling better. And there are a lot of them out there. So far I've never gotten lost but there are times when I get so into the joy of riding that I'll suddenly look around and wonder, how did I get here? That scares me a bit but it's also kind of cool!
@@DavidRidesaTrike Yup, your having a great time (and lose track of time) My local area I had to move in with my mom after my dad passed a few years back...so I am pedaling on a lot of the same streets I did as a kid...but up at my cabin it's all new terrain...wish it would stop raining so often lol
@@derykmacleod4979 That has to be a weird sensation riding on the same streets you did as a kid. Even driving through my old neighborhood is always a weird sensation. While it's still the same, it also feels so different.
Our non-stop rain finally ended a few days ago. At least for a while. Now we have sun and 90° temps. I'll take it!
@@DavidRidesaTrike the changes from the past, kind of make me smile, as time marches on. Growing up, I had a friend who lived on the corner house with a really steep side street hill, and the street his house was on had a long gradual hill. As kids, we usually avoided pedaling up the steep hill, only liked coasting down it. I can still pedal up that steep hill with a little effort, so that makes me feel good.
@@derykmacleod4979 Ha! Yeah, I definitely get that!
Ramble on David, it looks like you had fun exploring new roads that were less traveled. My wife and I got in 14 miles yesterday on the Pumpkinvine Trail in Shipshewanna In. It was our first time out since April 4th because of the cold weather. Keep on keeping on David!
Thanks Terry. It was a lot of fun! And yep, the weather has been pretty tough on us trikers this year. However today it was 84° here and supposed to be in the 80s all week. And NO RAIN!
Yes, l love exploring. Glad you had the opportunity to do it. I had been exploring on a DF for years and though I can’t get as remote on a RT I can do it more often and really enjoy it more. Loved your relive segment for this ride. I had thought about using it a while back but decided that most of my rides here in the islands wouldn’t warrant it. While I’m sure it would be easy to use, It would just be another thing to manage on my ride. Hope you get your wish for warm riding this week. I’m still waiting for less rain and wind here so I can continue my around the island ride.
It was fun! Once again, it reminded me of exploring when I was a kid.
Relive is cool but I only use it periodically at best since most of my rides are rides I've done countless times already. I was supposed to have chemo today but my platelet level was too low so I got to go for a ride instead. 82° and partly cloudy. Finally!
@@DavidRidesaTrike so glad you got the ride in today. Great weather.
Glad for the update video. Much appreciate your posts. Inspiring for this oldie - been sick the last couple of weeks, getting better, and itchy to get back to riding. Keep hanging in there!
Hi Curt. Hope you feel better soon and can get back out there!
Nice change of pace to discover new neighborhoods close to home. Good mileage too👏💪
It was! Part of my ride was through a couple of very affluent 'hoods and I was waiting for someone to call the cops on me.
@@DavidRidesaTrike lol...thought you looked shady checking out their luxury homes from your trike 😆
@@debbieschwartz3132 Oh, I ALWAYS look shady.
@@DavidRidesaTrike You're definitely one to watch out for😂
@@debbieschwartz3132 Damn straight.
Great ride and so,happy to see you feeling so strong. 25 miles is a helluva ride with everything you are going through. The weather looks super and good to see you not wearing winter gear. We all like to go,of course to,explore and you seem to have found some nice diversions. Just getting out of the house and on the trike fixes our mood rapidly. Keep going buddy.
Hi Mark, hope you're doing well! That ride was fun. Actually got in 30 miles that day. Today was supposed to be chemo but my platelet count was too low so I got to ride again. 84°. Finally! And it's supposed to be in the 80s all week.
@@DavidRidesaTrike hasn’t been over 50 in the month I have been back from Florida. Wind has been 20-25 mph+ every day but I still go out. Finally getting warmth starting Thursday. Stay well. I hope,your treatments go well with no side effects. Keep triking and posting.
@@markfeldman6509 the only good thing about the extended cold is that it makes the warm weather feel that much better. 80° right now and going up to close to 90°. I should get in a lot of riding for the next few months. Stay well!
@@DavidRidesaTrike it’s supposed to warm up this weekend to 70 or so. I just ride the Cape Cod canal this morning in 48 degree temps and winds 30-40 mph. Too windy for the seagulls to get airborne. It’s been the coldest and windiest spring on record here! Stay well!
@@markfeldman6509 Hope it stays at least "springlike" for you starting this weekend.
Everything is Illuminated type soundtracks tingle something inside. It's got to be genetic memory.
Perhaps!
You look great David! I did a new trail yesterday and yes exploring on a trike is lot of fun. On my regular trail last week I confirmed what I thought I saw a week before when a Florida Panther slowly stepped out onto the trail about 60ft in front of me. We were about the same eye level and now it’s a little more tense going through that area hoping he doesn’t mistake my trike as an animal about the same size as him! Take care brother.
Wow, that's pretty amazing! Be careful!!
I live in Fl as well and never go for a ride without the pepper spray.
@@georgechase3275 I hope you never have to use it, especially on a panther!
David...loved the rambling ride and super happy that you got to feeling better and explored! What a great route (love the mapping software at the end). You sound and look great!
I have my reservation made at Fishlake Beach in Volo, Ill for the DRAT Ride. I will be getting in with my travel trailer on the 11th and departing on the 13th. It looks to be about a 30 minute drive from the camp to the Des Plaines River Trail.
Will depart your ride on the 13th for Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to assist with our bike give-away (300 bikes) to the indigenous youth. ruclips.net/video/aHZUibDpFrI/видео.html
I am excited to meet you and the other riders for the DRAT ride and then heading to the Bad Lands!
That sounds about right regarding Volo being around 30 minutes to the start of the ride.
And that program in the Badlands is wonderful! Some friends and I stopped at the Badlands back in 1977 on our way to go camping in Yellowstone. I kept thinking it looked like the surface of the moon. And I had NO idea people lived there! As I watched the video I kept thinking that there are so many Americans who have no idea how lucky they are to have been born into the lives they have.
@@DavidRidesaTrike I bet that was a memorable trip back in 77! Thanks for the Volo info. It was the nearest RV campground I could find.
Yes...most Americans do not realize how impoverished the Reservations are and the desperate needs there. I am deeply thankful and honored to be able to be a part of this giving program. And, with bikes...even makes it better! 🙂
@@rangerk9 It was a great adventure. Growing up in Chicago and never really traveling before that, I had never even seen a mountain. So arriving in SD and seeing the Badlands, followed by the Black Hills, the bison, Mt. Rushmore and then Yellowstone and the Tetons was the best adventure of my life.
I think what you're doing is truly a wonderful thing. Thanks for doing it!
David, great video, as always. I also love to discover new routes and am also riding my spring alternative routes while waiting for the DPRT to dry out. What trail or road were you on with the trail that runs along it? You said it was fairly new and I don't think I've seen it before. I've take a few rides down to Busse Woods this spring. Some of the north-south roads in Arlington Heights are great to ride. I've found that as I discover more little trails and friendly side streets, that I can connect a nice and pleasant ride through the 'burbs. Riding down to Busse Woods from Wheeling, riding around the trail there and then back to Wheeling is about 30 miles.
Hi Jon. I thought of you when I was doing that ride - wondering where you've been riding. I saw that ride down to Busse. That looked like a nice ride.
The road with the trail on it was Everett. There's a bike path that goes up Portwine from Deerfield Rd. all the way to Everett. Then if you turn left there there's a trail on the north side of the street that goes about halfway and then it continues on the south side of Everett. Before you get to St. Mary's/Daniel Wright FB entrance, it turns into the forest preserve and you end up on the loop that goes through Daniel Wright. You can connect from there to the DPRT. I did it again today and the DPRT is absolutely fine from the bridge in Half Day FP/Daniel Wright, all the way to Deerfield. Hopefully in a couple days that will be passable.
Is your trike electric ? Pedal assisted ? Or regular human power
Hi Jose. It does have e-assist and it is GREAT!