A home made rail bike device is attached to the forks of a mountain bike in order to ride an abandoned and defunct railway through a remote wilderness canyon. The ride ends up being roughly 150 km in length over 2 days, and crosses old bridges, passes through ghost towns, and along scenic river valleys.
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I've been watching your rail bike revisions and I'm really hoping you release the plans for sale, or a kit, or a final product or something! If not, I'm going to have to figure this out myself one of these days.
Liked , Loved & Subscribed… I liked all your videos but I loved this video coz this video has lot of Thinks & Things to Learn… When you said " I forgot My Tent " , I knew this is going to be 180 kms trip now… And about the Pain of your legs coz you have rode after long time that's what you said , I had such experience of my friend who rode for 75 kms after very long time… He called & said " I m at this place but bring the pickup coz I came cycling , I & other friends picked him but for 4 – 5 days his legs were swollen… Bro just Double Check your things before leaving next time so that you don't have to suffer… About those trees destroyed , they looked freshly destroyed coz of the inside color of the trees , it could be coz of the big huge rock sliding… Keep making such amazing videos & GOD bless you & your family with lots of love & happiness & with good health & wealth…
Wow what a video. I've biked the GAP and C&O trails, but now must rail ride. New to the channel, so not aure if you were serious about how the rear wheel stays on the track? Hoping your first explanation is more fact than fiction 🙂
What's the weight of that thing, minus bike? Any plans to sell them?
On a bike tour in Australia, I accidently left my tent poles behind at a campsite. That day, I took the ferry to Tasmania, spent several nights in a hostel, returned to the mainland, and headed down the coast. When I went to set up my tent that night, no poles…. So I can see how it happens. Great video!
The beauty of 8020 is that it can be disassembled easily and reconfigured. I built out my entire van with it.
Where is this? Canada? USA?
Why does the abandon train trek not grow weeds between the gravel?
The shredded trees are likely the effect of using a boom mounted flail mower off a train https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_mower
On your Moosonee tour you suffered inward derailments on wet well used rail, maybe a third set of wheels and guide plus a adjustable side tracking wheel (because not all bikes have the same wheel base length) to keep your power wheels on track. Have you looked at trainer tires as they are designed for aluminum or steel traction.
Love the 1010/1515 construction, as that gives great uses for expired high power rocketry launch rails. Have you looked at steel flanged nylon mining wheels? I have seen them used on outdoor model railroads
% grade defined unit rise vs unit run, ~ 100 foot run – 3 foot rise OR 100 meter run – 3 meter rise = 1.713 degrees
I prefer the bolted version as a cast/welded OR fibreglass/CF/BS (BS = Basalt Fibre) is not field serviceable, which in my opinion is less desirable in the wild areas!
You could think of how far you could get on a assisted midrive on each bikes.
Did you say where you're at ?
Excellent content ; very entertaining…
…could there have been Railroad Maintenence come through with an articulated mower arm to push back on the encroachment of Mother Nature ?
…very could have been a tornado 😊
Keep up yer Good Werk ❤🎉❤
The Rail bike, seems to be a noisy set up, but that just my opinion.
I'm a bit confused. When you left after camping you headed back in the direction you came. But then you said after you go back and get the tent you were going back to the car. Weren't you already heading back to the car?
It’s a type of brush mower that travels the tracks with remote control arms out the sides,very noisy and violent machines
Interesting video and travel concept. Really like the simplicity (and convenience) of using a light rail car / bike combo.
I'm fascinated by the rail bike contraption! Just found your channel. Really digging your adventures. Manual Transmission for life!
It's like saying, "I forgot my shoes!"
LANDSLIDES CAUSE THAT WHEN GROUND GETS TOO WET AND IT JUST KIND OF SLOUGHS AND TAKES TREES AND EVERYTHING WITH IT
DAVID ADAM GRENIS CURRENTLY IN HOUSTON TEXAS
That looks like a giant prehistoric beaver , was having a bad toof day … But realistically its a big sling saw / blade hanging under a helicopter … Really cool to observe , chunks of fiber fly all over everywhere …😮
What an idiot. Illegal what you're doing. You're trespassing AND you can clearly see the rails are well worn and not
rusted over. Therefore….it is NOT abandoned. You're trespassing on an active railroad. Tired of these videos.
That is from a carbide grinder head they use to clear roads and rail lines, it's clearly maintained to some extent. Not a tornado haha.
Buddy, at 24:00, when you realized that you had left your tent, that would have been the perfect time to indulge in a little lalochezia. Look it up. It's very interesting and I have indulged any number of times. Love the rail bike. Do you have any idea how many kilometers of abandonded rails there are in Canada or the USA?
13:50 that brush was cut with a chain flail, most likely mounted on a excavator riding on the same rails as you.
I dont understand what keeps the rear wheel on the track ?
Any Sasquatch sightings?
The clearing was done with a flail on a hydraulic arm. Yup, makes a mess.
Each percent of grade is one foot in a hundred. 3% is a three foot rise in a hundred feet. Someone has had a rail mounted tree/shrub clearing device on those rails. Notice the shiny part on the rails? There has been other traffic on that section you were on.
Tommy Lee goes railbiking!
The trip my soul never knew I needed… So glad this video was recommended. Kudos on a fabulous video!! 👏👏
…had that happen on the AT, wasn't the tent but it was cold and dropped my mittens… spent a few extra hours hiking back… but had to turn around & keep going to finish the hike! Sucks!
Wish I knew where this was. I'd take my speeder there. Track looks in good shape.
That’s a well maintained rail line. One thing I noticed was the complete lack of graffiti all over the bridges.
Looks like the old Algoma central.
If its the old Algoma Central the diamond is out at the crossing at the cpkc. Abandoned north of there to CN RAIL Then from Cn north its in use to Hearst ont .
In my experience those trees were chopped down by a hydraulic flail mower, usually have several 3/4 inch chains that spin at quite high rpms, operated off a large dedicated machine. Those buildings are likely maintaned as a retreat for the RR executives, there is lawn maintenance around them.
You didn’t even see that mountain lion. Crazy
More trespassing for views….
E bike my man, c’mon
Where’s the drone shots?