Autumn Colors on the Monon Trail: A Scenic Ride

[@SilentAttackTV]

Glad I found this video. I've really started to appreciate and love fall more and more as a season. This is such a good idea, the colors of the leaves and the trail looks beautiful. Cheers!

[@An-Ma]

Beautiful golden trail! Thanks for posting👍🌷

[@GreenJimll]

As someone who has walked/cycled along lots of old British railway lines that have been turned into paths, one thing I noticed about yours (aside from the great all weather surfacing) is that they appear to have left the old railway telegraph poles intact. In the UK British Rail tended to "fell" those when lines were taken out of railway use, so that they didn't have the liability for any subsequent poles rotting and falling over.

[@AmericanFietser]

Good observation. They are indeed still there and some still have those glass insulators on them.

[@dutchman7623]

Beautiful gold autumn leaves. This trail must be a joy to ride in every season. All with their own different vibe! Thanks! Enjoyed it a lot.

[@cooperino]

it was refreshing to see a non car dependent side of america! i moved here about a year ago from helsinki and lack of sidewalks, public transit transit or any sort of non car infrastructure was so depressing. i cant wait to move to a more walkable/transit friendly city. living here and seeing how cars destroy cities has fully turned me into an urbanist lol

[@hanneken4026]

Beautiful tree colours!

[@WellsPetras]

What a nice trail! Thanks for the video. Great job.

[@AmericanFietser]

Thank you for watching! 🙂

[@TylerProvick]

The fun thing about watching this is when you stop and all the world starts pulling away from you.

[@TylerProvick]

It was a nice ride, thanks for the video

[@AmericanFietser]

Thank you for taking the time to watch it. 🙂

[@ricfwolff]

Wow! Não esperava escutar português assistindo esse vídeo! 😂

[@AmericanFietser]

Eu sabia que minha sogra em Minas estaria assistindo. kkkkk

[@ricfwolff]

@@AmericanFietser kkkkk Excelente!

[@derekjolly3680]

This trail represents kind of a trading off of the good for the good (Leaving a net positive or negative?), giving up the efficient mass transit railroad travel of this line for the recreation of a bike path. All the people who might still be taking it for travel or commuting would be driving instead. Sure there'd be local bike commuting and bike utility use to an extent, but that isn't the same as the broad use and longer distant use of a railroad. There'd be only very limited overlap I'd estimate.

[@pondacres]

Wow, that trail is even more awesome in the fall! Hey guy, I really enjoyed your other vids too, I especially like how you take the bike for errands like to Home Depot and stuff...that's how I roll too, here in IL. I must say, you Indy metro-area people really got something special there in Carmel! Me and my wife were out there in July, left really impressed, and are planning to visit again in the fall, only this time with our bikes. I already know some places we want to ride, obviously the Monon (probably heading north from Carmel), and around West Clay. Any other scenic areas over there to bike if we only have a couple days? Is it worth riding down the Monon all the way to downtown Indy, for instance? We checked out downtown Indy in July, but didn't get a chance to go by the canal, so I was thinking that for a bike ride down there.

[@AmericanFietser]

It sounds like you have a good plan as it is. I've never biked to Indy, so I can't give good advice on that. Please say hello if we meet on the Monon!

[@derekjolly3680]

Obviously this is a really stable camera platform for your photo shooting and that's probably why you like riding it for these, but I assume you have other bikes to ride for getting around and for fitness too.

[@Lias9958]

I found your channel through NJB. I'm a fan already. Carmel looks like a friendly cycling city! What are the best bikble cities in the US?

[@AmericanFietser]

Thanks! I consider NJB to be a friend of mine and I'm glad you found your way here. Best bikable cities in the US? Yikes, that's a very difficult question. A good resource to scan for in depth coverage about progress in the US would be the "Active Towns" channel. John is an excellent content producer who keeps up on cities all over.

[@maartendenduijn7716]

I like to hear you talking!😅

[@xiezicong]

Pao de Queijo! +1 for dissing manicured European lawns.

[@derekjolly3680]

What's the reason for the metric stuff? Not that I can't convert, every single time that is. I mean you live in America, so it's expected that you speak in Imperial right? Pounds, miles, feet, and all that. What's your angle? Have they been forcing that crap in the schools since the 90s or what? About the lawns. Well yeah if you have the space for a lawn Americans tend to want to grow it and mow it since it looks nice. I don't see the problem with that. We don't all have that space in the front nor do we all have the watering system for it either. But most of us would live like Ward Cleaver or Henry Mitchell if we could. Also I'd say that's rooted more in the ideas of the American Dream of the 1950s. Atomic Family, picket fence, backyard, a garage, clipping hedges on Saturdays, church on Sundays, kids and dogs and a nice street to live on.