42-Mile Bike Ride: Crystal Lake to Aurora, IL | Part 1 of 4 - Crystal Lake to Carpentersville
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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Today we start in Crystal Lake and ride all the way down to Aurora through portion of the McHenry County Prairie Trail and most of the Fox River Trail. This is part 1 of 4, from Crystal Lake through Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, and ending the video in Carpentersville, right at the Main Street Bicycles shop.
This video features no music, only the binaural audio recorded during the ride. I go through great lengths to get quality ambient sounds, but if that's not your thing, feel free to listen to your own music and podcast while you ride along.
The goal of this channel is to record and document trails and bike rides so you can use it to plan your ride or ride along with me indoors in your stationary/exercise bike at home. Or... You can kick back, relax, and enjoy the scenery and sounds.
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Thanks for the miles and the memories ! Happy Trails...
Great video I ridevthis trail often. Beautiful ride!
Great rides,,, excellent alternative to the boring peleton videos.
Glad you like them! How hard/easy is it to watch UA-cam videos on Peloton? I heard you have to jump through some hoops
@@virtualbikerides it’s about a 5 or 6 step process to get to a web browser on the peloton monitor. The only downside is your rides aren’t synced to Strava or peloton but who cares 😜🤣
Got it! I wish it were a simpler process. I guess you can add activities to Strava manually 😅
Where is the start? What town?
This video began in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
If you're local the heads of the Fox River Trail are in Oswego and Algonquin which is approximately 38 miles one-way.
Slightly before downtown Algonquin the Fox Trail transitions into the Prairie Trail which ends in Crystal Lake.
If you ride the Fox Trail - Prairie Trail from start to finish from Oswego to Crystal Lake (vise-versa) its about 45 miles one-way.
You can easily do a century ride on this trail round trip but you will just have to take a slight detour to add the extra 10 miles.
It can take up anywhere from 4 - 8 hours to complete if you're riding at 12-15mph average depending rather its a one-way or round trip.
Will you go north from Crystal Lake on that trail next time?
No plans to do that so far. I did want to start at McHenry at first, but Metra only goes there during weekdays as far as I could tell.
If on a gravel bike, you can head north from Stern’s Woods all the way up to Hebron. Can refuel at the popular gas station and head back down. The views from the gravel trail are breathtaking taking.
You seem to have much nicer trails than us in Milwaukee.