At no point did you sound like you were gloating. The joy at just being out and having a great time came through very clearly.

Cycling friends, coffee, a long trail ride, an eclipse, lunch/beer, nothing better!

The journey including the video, still photos, and narration was really well done!

Great job capturing the day! One of your best videos yet!

Holy cow I saw all those turtles stacked upon that log in the canal. Spring has officially arrived! I love checking out turtles on my bike rides!

Another great day out. Thanks for taking us along.

Great day. Glad to see you had some clear skies. Somehow you hacked the perfect plan together and no bummers resulted! Kudos.

I love this video! A bunch of friends on a perfect ride to experience a once in a lifetime event. It doesn’t get any better and you captured it perfectly!

Looks like you had a classic dreamy day!

Excellent video and pics! I also really like the longer video. 🍻

I couldn’t see I was working but you nailed it! Cool. A lot of people from here went to Lake Erie area. Somewhere I want to visit! But alas, I wasn’t prepared. So I live vicariously through this vid. Appreciate it. Nice shots. You killed it.

Tim, Thank you for another great video. ❤ 🚲 ❤🚲❤

Love how you guys have fun on your bikes. Great video Tim.

Hanging out with a bunch of friendly cyclists would be the best thing to combine with an eclipse. Would have loved a few more photos of that 360 sunset - that was ace! I was at work in 2000 here in the UK when we had a total and I remember it was cloudy and the usual dull UK weather to we hardly noticed it going dark! 😅 Have fun!

Superb video! I made it a road trip with a good friend and his 2 kids - 1625 miles round trip and well worth it. Great view from Mt. Carmel Illinois and thank goodness the weather cooperated. I took a chance and did a timelapse of the eclipse with my iphone - some high cirrus clouds diffused the sun enough that it did't scorch the sensor - posted it as a short on my channel. I was lucky enough to live in the path of totality back in 2017 and there was no way I was going to miss this one - an awesome event!

What an amazing experience and a great riding day with friends!

I did not know about the 360 degree sunset. How amazing!

What a great video. Nothing better than bikes and friends. I enjoyed the eclipse in western Maine. Didn’t know what to expect but had a great experience. I can see why people travel so far to experience totality!

That's beautiful terrain Tim,,, thanks for sharing... I see myself doing some East coast rides... Western Canada Don

Sounds like a great outing.

Hey, thanks for documenting my ride and eclipse experience.😀 I’m almost surprised we didn’t run into each other at the Canal Exploration Center on the Towpath returning from Cleveland. We couldn’t have missed each other by much. I’m glad I had an excuse to be in Cleveland to view the eclipse and I’m really glad I got to ride a bike to do it. I mean riding through a National Park in early spring ain’t too shabby either. 👌

Tim this video is absolutely amazing! The route is so cool along all the boardwalks, amazing paths and across all those bridges, so different to here in the uk. I’d love ride there one day! Amazing photos as usual. ❤🏁🏁🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️

Great video! I watched the eclipse from the other side of Lake Erie and it was awesome. I decided to drive down and did get stuck in a bit of traffic on the way home, but thankfully nothing too crazy. Doing it on the bikes would have made for an even better day!

Thanks for the trip from Akron to Cleveland. I knew when I slipped away from work to my driveway in central ohio that you had me covered! Of course, nothing compares to being there in person, but you gave us the next best thing. Appreciate the great capture! And eclipse or not, I love that bike ride to the lake and back. You even threw in the typical blue heron moment, which I never take for granted. Spoiler Alert: The bonus was Edmund inspecting the tube.

Friends, bikes, and total eclipse is a recipe for an epic day. A picture will never relay the full awesomeness of an eclipse but it may capture a small piece. My advice to anyone who has never seen totality is do what you can to see it! I drove 10 hours to stand in a Walmart parking lot in Missouri for 3 and a half minutes of totality and I would do it again tomorrow.

Wish I could've traveled to see this one - or even the one in 2017. I was fortunate to see the total eclipse in 1991 when I was in Chiapas, Mexico. I actually had no idea it was going to happen and just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I understood immediately why some people choose to chase them. It really is a sublime, almost otherworldly experience. Seems like you all had a phenomenal day!

One of the things I found perhaps most special was the silence. As if on cue all birds went silent .. BTW, I really enjoy your vids and dig the music too.

very cool day you guys had. awesome day on the bike. im jealous.

Loved the video! So glad you got to see the totality! It's so different than a partial eclipse, isn't it? I like the phrase "Four-pack for the road" too.

Man, Thank You so much. This was excellent. What a pleasure and privelege to be brought on your journey. My favorite part is your narration and story, sure the Eclipse footage was great to, but your personal journey was still best. Loved it !

I knew you would make good use of that day and event! So many similarities to mine. Not interested in crowds and cloud concerns I just decided to ride north until whatever happened pull over and watch. Found the same beautiful serene day that you did. Ended up in this goofy little park with this other guy who just showed up. We shared my glasses and took it in. Only 99.something here but still way cool. Rode back. Eclipse with a great ride thrown in on a perfect weather day. And it’s rained non-stop since. Lucky us.

Biked to Port Colborne on the other side of the lake to watch it. Nice video. Thanks for sharing.

love the video - and as always the great images. thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your experience and footage with us. It was completely cloudy where I live, so it is great to get a taste of the experience in some other way. Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video. Love the bike prep and gear choice before riding too. Thank you!

Great vid. Got to see trails going into Cleveland that were not around some 40 years ago. Looks like nice bridges going into Cleveland. Nice to see the area has gotten nicer. Thanks.

I’m a huge fan of these longer videos Tim! Excellent quality as always

I have never ridden my bike past the new bridge. That's amazing. Next time I'm in Cleveland I'll be sure to ride out to the station

Thanks Tim! You have been far too generous and supportive with my music man! If you are ever in Louisville, beers on me!

whoa! that’s me in the new mexico jersey 👋

Great video. We always hear politically and economically how different everyone is. Great to have moments like these to show that people from all walks of life aren't that different. Glad everyone up there got to experience it on a beautiful day.

We drove down from Northern Michigan to the Indianapolis area and the Monon Trail for the eclipse. Like you said, absolutely the best way to find a place to watch the eclipse was by bicycle! Ended up in Carmel, Indiana and watched the eclipse from Civic Square where the town of Carmel had set up food trucks, live music, and beer! Totally great experience and very mellow. All the hype of these huge out of control crowds seemed to be unfounded…at least in the area we were in. All in all, a fantastic experience, made all the better by doing it by bicycle!

I’m up in Washington state and I remember when it happened here and everyone went down to Oregon to see the total solar eclipse. I5 was absolutely packed with cars. It’s probably because we don’t have a lot of freeways. We only had one that goes north and south. Love the videos!

New to the channel and to bike packing. Great video🤘🏻

Looked like an amazing day. I drove from MN to southern IN for totality. Absolutely worth it. What an experience.

I live in Avon Lake and there was so much hype from the city and I think everyone was a little disappointed. I rode my bike around town in the morning and I did see people milling around but nothing compared to what they were expecting. But I couldn't help noticing the chem trails starting around 13:46 because it was happening over us too and a lot of that stuff looked like it was falling dangerously low. Love your videos and am always looking for known landmarks. I get out in the flats and tow path too. It's a long gradual climb to Akron. Stay strong!

Great vid!! And 100% agree go Endurance casing. Best tires I’ve had on my gravel bike. Got me through Unbound south route last year no issues. Same tires will take me on the Unbound north route this year. Hands down worth every penny.

Nice, you had great weather for totality!

Nice pics, Tim. Totals are cool. Once you see one, no others compare. I saw the total 2017 eclipse and this one was 80% for my town. Pretty meh. Good news though, I biked to work that day.

After experiencing gridlock from Louisville to just past Columbus for the last eclipse trying to get home, I was worried about the traffic after the main event. People would trickle in all weekend, then all try to leave at once. I'm so glad you guys didn't buy the hype, braved the media's doomsday predictions, and had an amazing time! (We saw it in our yard, I had family in from out of town, and wouldn't trade it for the world, but secretly I'm so jealous we weren't on the lake!)

Oh you did it better and that's okay. We stood outside on the front porch for it and as soon as the sun started coming out we went back inside and worked. The worst part is that it was a pretty cool event and I sort of wish we'd made a bigger deal about it.

I was freezing because I had brought a little wind breaker but it didn't occur to me how cold it would get.😂 Especially being sweaty from riding out.

sick vid can't wait til its warmer in upstate ny

Enjoyed video. FWIW: Research contrails. They are not all water vapor as in the past. Chemicals and rain plus or rain minus efforts account for huge contrails today!

CT , as you probably know , got 93%. My day was a bit bizarre. Rode to Rocky Hill (awesome 8.9 mile route and weather!) to take my practice session driving test, which was scheduled during totality. (I'm 61, and stupidly, let my license fees lapse, so they make you do it all over if you lapse beyond 2 years, doh. The real test is April 23. ) So I saw it at about 1/3 through my driving instructor's welding helmet that he smartly brought along. It just got shady dark. I did OK, he said. We had a somewhat reasonable middle aged conversation. I did not drive perfectly, oh well. He noted that there weren't a lot of people on the road as we headed back to the office. Rocky Hill is a pretty nice town, clean, respectful, nice businesses. People waving. Nice work. I'm sort of 50/50- meh on it, but some of the photos I saw , (Rangley Maine) I will admit were pretty damn kewl. Yes, memories. One more for the slide show.

This was a great video. I too saw it in totality but in Lake Placid! Also, love the bag on the back of Erin’s bike. Can you tell me what she uses?

Maybe the media hype was to deter people from coming so we wouldn't have traffic jams. I didn't care. I was going to watch it from the trail somewhere and the closest to me was the Simon Kenton trail in Bellefontaine. So glad I went! Your in such awe it almost feels spiritual. It's no wonder the Mayans and other cultures revered it like they did. I wanted to ride 15 miles to The Great Serpent Mound to see it but it's too much road riding for me. Glad that you got to see it too. If anyone ever gets the chance and it's within a reasonable distance they should see it.

Hah, no way. I was sitting on the grass with my bike along the short trail to the coast guard station and I thought somebody in one of those bike groups looked familiar.

funny, you rode from my sisters place to my cousin in cleveland. enjoyed seeing the area again. been years since i last visited them. long way from miami florida

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I rode like 8 minutes to see the eclipse but it still would have been worth 80 miles

Cloudy. Nothing to see in N.J.

I mowed right through the eclipse.

Do you all leave your bags on the bikes when you go in to eat?

chem trails