Biking the Erie Canal | Albany to Buffalo

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The Erie Canal spans the entire width of New York State, from Albany, past Utica, Syracuse, and Rochester, and into Buffalo! You can bike the entire Erie Canal, thanks to the Empire State trail! This summer, my friends and I started in Albany and biked the entire thing over the course of a little over the week. We documented as much as we could, and this is the result of our journey!
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Intro: 00:00
History of the Erie Canal: 00:55
A gear explanation: 01:47
The Capital Region: 02:25
Stewart's Shops Interlude: 03:20
Mohawk Valley: 03:55
Utica: 05:35
Syracuse: 06:57
Rochester: 08:20
Buffalo: 10:43
Special thanks to Liam and Rory for taking this ride with me, and for Matt Jonas for driving us home!
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@FollowThomas 11 ай бұрын

It's a great trail. I rode it just a couple of weeks ago from Buffalo to Albany loved every mile of it. Well done video and thanks for sharing your experience there.

@___domey 6 ай бұрын

liam in the opening shot lets go

@Tarukai788 2 жыл бұрын

This was a great watch of something I've wanted to do for a long time, starting from where I grew up no less! Great video with nice snippets of insight into the various cities you stopped at!

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I wish I could have gone deeper into some of the smaller cities along the journey. I'll have to revisit them in further videos.

@thenewdumb 2 жыл бұрын

Amsterdam NY native here - this ruled!! So cool to see the aerial footage of all the cities along the way. Kudos!

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Hey thank you! I enjoyed my time on the bridge over the Mohawk there, I forget the name but I remember the vibes.

@voidgeometry794 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! My grandparents took their boat from Buffalo to Albany in 1960. I have always wanted to make this trip myself.

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Doing the trip by boat is certainly on my bucketlist

@jesseoglidden 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's kinda different. They rode bikes. I'm not even kidding.

@stevebarratt3158 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dc Show, I liked your perspective of this trip, and the drone shots added.

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Of course, happy to share!

@francinelynch4617 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video!

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Karuglah Жыл бұрын

Oh hail yea

@jamesgifford932 2 жыл бұрын

Big shout out to Spunk Fitness

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Somehow there are only three Spunk Fitness locations, and two of them are in Maryland

@MarcMallary Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Some day I'll have to ride out from California to see if the legend of the Eastern United States is real, but I guess it would be hard to fake.

@GallonCurtis Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great video! Do you think this would be a hard ride on mountain bikes?

@TheDCShow0 Жыл бұрын

I used a hybrid bike. I honestly don’t know what it would have been like on a mountain bike

@jesseoglidden 2 жыл бұрын

This was a fun vid to watch. Thanks for all your efforts in putting it together and sharing. At least we know it's possible. Question: did you have to exit the bank trail for significant distances and ride in traffic? Whereabouts?

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! The trail is marked throughout the entire state, but some portion of it requires you to go on roadways, most memorably from utica to Syracuse there is a lot of that. A large portion is on gravel which isn’t the most pleasant surface to ride a bike on.

@jesseoglidden 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDCShow0 That's good to know, and thanks for that insight. I'm interested in doing this with the wife on our tandem some day, but she really dislikes riding with cars. I don't care for it either. We may need to find some sort of portage arrangement.

@vanomadcyclist3474 2 жыл бұрын

What size tires did you have?

@MrDenny0074 2 жыл бұрын

Can you talk about how long it took you guys? Mileage per day etc etc? Great video!

@TheDCShow0 2 жыл бұрын

Great question, I wish I had mentioned this in the video. We went about 55 miles a day, and stopped for a couple days in Syracuse and Rochester. The entire thing took as about 10 days with those stops, but it could have been done in 7 or 8 if we hadn't taken any days off. A good athlete could do the whole thing in four days, going about 90 miles a day.

@jesseoglidden 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDCShow0 Y'all did awesome. You were not doing a century a day on those bikes at any point.