@MrTacoJay I come from Ottawa and join that railtrail at Robertson Rd in Bells Corners, and ride it through Stitsville to CarletonPlace. The rail trail crosses Stittsville Main Street (water fountain to refill bottles) and onwards all the way to Carleton Place. If coming from Ottawa, you can get to take bike paths all the way to that Robertson Rd point. Check Google Maps. Have a great ride!

@@scenesfromearth4666hey thanks for the reply. I’m coming from Kemptville area. But I’d probably drive up to a good point and ride from there

Thanks for the feedback. A tricky thing with riding videos and with my GoPro 8 is that the audio tends to be poor. And if I opt to speed up the video for viewers to see more in less time, that original audio is even more unusable. Rather than remove poor audio and have no audio track, or have sped-up audio, I prefer to choose tasteful music that is not overpowering. It's also tricky to find music to please all tastes. Hopefully that helps provide some context and I hope you still enjoyed the video and riding around that great city. Cheers.

Awesome, thanks! Just looked up the Bell 407. Aha, that explains why I was sure was seeing four blades but it's often hard with video and frame speeds. giving a semblance of 2 or 4 blades. Great, will make the change to the description.

Thanks Stephen. Is the B3e in relation to the Airbus or is that a variant of the Bell 407?

Hey King Kanza. Pretty much any tire (road, MTB, hybrid, or other) works. While the trail surface was a little soft in a few remaining places of shade or thicker tree coverage last weekend, I was on 700x25 slick road tires last weekend. I'd say for most people, a little wider tires are the usual but test it out and see how it goes. Unless just after a big rain, for most of the riding season, the Stittsville to Carleton Place road trail is very firm and most of it has a very thin coat of fine gravel. Easy traction. Awesome ride. Let me know how it goes.

No offence taken. My breathing was fine thanks. Having the GoPro's microphone 2inches from one's nose and mouth over-captures the breathing sound. It's nice to get the forest sounds and footsteps audio but unfortunately any sound capture is dominated by breathing. To boot, one knows that while running, so in trying to breath as quietly as possible on those climbs, it might sound a bit laboured but fortunately it was not. Cheers.

@@scenesfromearth4666 ohh Roger that! Have you ever tried nose breathing while running? I find it just gets me in the zone faster than not focusing on that I dunno I see to enjoy it all around more in that circumstance..cheers!

It was not always easy to navigate Ottawa by bike, but as this video shows there a lot of beautiful bikepaths along the Rideau River and Canal, and of course the Ottawa River, great to be "back", thanks!

I agree Ron. Without police clamping down on poor boda driver practices, it's hard to avoid this happening. But, it's also why in my episode on boda boda/motocycle taxi safety, I recommend that people take responsibility for their safety and tell the driver to smarten up with their driving: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJXXgaOkqtqepac A Kampala friend of mine had a habit of telling each of his boda drivers that any tip depended on safe driving, worked like a charm, he said. Keep well.

Thank you very much Egona! Keep well and let's look forward to outdoor activity to resume.

Thanks Tania! Glad your Argus went well. I filmed that clip the evening before the CTCT as I did final checks on my bike. Keep well.