Alright, The Busse Woods Bike Trail Video is complete and has been uploaded to the About-Bicycles website!

I just rode and recorded this trail two days ago. Fortunately, I have had the time to put the video together already and I actually think that this is the best bike trail video that I have done so far (well, I would hope that I would be getting better as I do more).

It was a pretty nice day when I recorded the video (a little cloudy but still very acceptable) and I think I have gotten better at the video transitions between scenes. Actually, I think I will back track and redo the transitions that I did in some of the earlier videos because each transition is unique and the transition fx should fit and be used sparingly.

The other thing that worked out very well with this video is the sound track. I don’t have the time or resources to hire a band or orchestra and sound engineer to synchronize the sound track to the movie so I just have to use what I have available. In this case, it is my instrumental recordings (done on a 4 track recorder quite a few years ago).

Well, I added the songs/sound tracks that I had in the order that I liked for each video scene and somehow it ended up being very well synchronized with the video!

If you watch the entire video the music does sync up very well with the video. Unfortunately, based on the Google Analytics statistics that I use for my website I see (based on the average time on each video page) that most people skip through the videos and do not watch them all the way through.

Well, it is asking a lot to have people that are surfin the web to stop and watch an entire 15 minute video but if some of you do, and if you are really into cool bike trails, I think you will enjoy this one. Even if you just check out a few minutes here and there, I still think this one came out pretty well.

I guess this post has gotten a little long and a little technical but I think that some of you may want the inside scoop behind the videos 🙂

OK, here ya go… Here’s the Busse Wood Bike Trail Video!

Alright, I have another bike trail video posted to the site! This one is the Palatine Trail and Deer Grove Trail videos.

I have been on a roll with the bike trail videos. I recorded the last 2 videos while the weather was nice and went into “the lab” to download, edit, format and update the website with the new videos on the rainy days.

I actually recorded this one before the Green Bay/McClory video but I did the editing on the Green Bay video first (since it was a longer trip and trail(s)).

The Palatine and Deer Grove trails connect at Dundee Road and I often ride them together so I combined the video for the 2 trails together. The distance that I rode on the trails was approximately 13 miles.

Deer Grove also has a lot of “mountain” or unpaved trails but I just stuck to the main paved trail for this video, although I did video tape the very beginning of one of the unpaved trails.

Well the bike trail video format should be familiar to you now (for those of you that have seen the other videos on this site). So here’s a link to the new bike trail video.

The Palatine and Deer Grove Bike Trail Video

For a new twist on my old saying: Enjoy the Virtual Ride!

As I promised a few blog posts back I have completed and uploaded the Green Bay Trail and Robert McClory Bike Trail Videos!

The videos are really new since I just took them on 7/7/9. I had a little time to put the video together, render the video flash file and upload it to the website so I completed this one fairly quickly.

You can now find the new bike trail video from either of the bike trail pages on this site or directly at this link: Green Bay and Robert McClory Bike Trail Video.

The video tour starts in Wilmette and goes to the Great Lakes Metra Station (just north of Lake Bluff).

I used much of the same original instrumental music background as I did on the last video (The Algonquin Road Bike Trail Video) since I own the copyrights on the songs and it is just way easier that way. I used a slightly different selection and order of the songs.

Now that I have a few bike trail videos out there, I have added a video icon to the bike trail pages for the trails that have videos and have also added a completely new Bike Trail Videos Page so there are a number of different ways to find and access the bike trail videos on this website.

As for a little background on the videos in general, I am trying to put together a good number of videos of the bike trails in the Chicagoland area to have all in one location and in a consistent format.

As for the Green Bay and Robert McClory bike trail videos specifically, I’ll let you in on a little “behind the scenes scoop” on some technical difficulties that I had with the video (even though it is embarrassing).

I missed most of the first 9 minutes of my trip (north of Wilmette to somewhere in Winnetka). Somehow I got out of sync with the camcorder. It makes a beep every time that you press the record/standby button but I wasn’t looking in the viewfinder to read what was saying. So every time I thought that I was recording it was in standby mode and every time I thought that it was in standby mode it was recording!!!

Arrrgh!I lost all of the stuff that I wanted to record and recorded my legs pedaling mostly!!! I got back in sync somewhere in Winnetka and was OK after that. I managed to salvage some of that video mostly via some still pictures in the video.

So now when you see that section, you will know that it was not some creative artistic inspiration but a technical corretion :-(.

I hope you enjoy the video.