I just completed editing and uploading the Des Plaines River Trail video!

I took this video last week when I rode the trail from Half Day (Route 22) to the northern end of the trail (mile 0) at Van Patten Woods just before the Wisconsin border. My trip was 58 miles (with a few extra short trips).

The DPR Trail was clear the whole way and there were no detours or flooding, which does happen on this trail occasionally. All of the underpasses were open.

I really like this trail but unfortunately I ended up with 45 minutes of original video! I edited the video down to 18.5 minutes but it is still my longest bike trail video and I like to try and keep them shorter than that. I considered breaking this up into 2 videos but decided to keep it as one for now.

I still haven’t had a chance to contact the indie musicians for new music so I am still recycling my original instrumental music for this video (for now anyway).

I think that this video came out pretty good but, as I mentioned, it is pretty long. There are a lot of major scenes on this 27 mile trip and I just didn’t want to chop it down too much.

I think that a lot of people do not ride this trail because it is crushed stone and not paved. I have ridden this trail many times with the skinny tires of my road bike and do not find that to be much of a problem but there are places where you need to slow down, of course.

OK, enough yakin. Here’s a link to the new Des Plaines River Trail Video!

You’ll need some time to watch this one (if you plan to watch the whole thing) and it may take a few seconds to load, but I hope you like it.