incredibly inspiring video, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing your ride and your personal experiences. I am also a solitary cyclist so can really relate to your thoughts. Also, very nice bike path you have there! Cheers 😊

Man, I love the raw and genuine character! Keep on man!

It's great to ride with one or 2 like minded people and by yourself xx

Do you have advice for camping in Japan? Are there sites in actual nature? I keep finding campgrounds where you’re 5 meters from the next tent.

Nice video bro! just started biking , you are right it is also a form of meditation I also like riding alone to free the mind. keep posting

Pretty much all I do is suburban riding and paved rail-trails. Sidewalks, residential streets… quiet, relatively peaceful. Only problem comes in when morons in cars don’t pay attention and try backing up over me.

Glad you are ok. I lost my front tire on wet leaves, rolled down a hill and smashed my head on a log that cracked open my helmet. Saw stars big time! Immediately went to the ER for a scan that was normal, fortunately, especially given the hug egg I had on my head. I know you want to ride this stuff, but you gotta know your skillset and limitations. If you want to ride gnarlier stuff, you need good suspension... like Fox 160mm front and rear. Don't sit down through rock gardens if possible. Personally, I'd call that trail green with some blue techy stuff... definitely not black. Have fun and be safe!

I’m hearing you, tho I’m doing it daily with hiking. 👍🏻❤️

If this bloke is 50 he's sure doing something right because he looks bout 35...all the best from England.

Back roads have their own danger. Suburban better roads at least

I was there for a week 10 years ago installing hematology equipment and never new about those trails... I wonder when they were created?

Love this! I’m right there with you. It’s my meditation time.

I'm a bradycardia, 38-40bpm in ecg test, I had frequent visits to a cardio doctor before, got meds before(anti clot). Doc dropped also the pacemaker idea, told me to bike and exercise more. 10kms in the neighborhood is better than nothing.. and with this neighborhood training, i can now hit 50km+ cycling and fell in love with it.. didn't think that was possible before..im in my 40’s by the way.. started bike journey 2021.. Thanks Rock for your videos!

Exactly! 💯 👍 I almost always ride alone for the same reasons. And even your countryside looks very similar to mine here in Germany!

Poetry in motion Mr R! 👍👍

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Thanks Rock!

nothing wrong with cycling in the suburbs if you have limited time, look what cycling has done for your health, your diabetes gone and no more blood pressure pills a clearer mind, the wonders of what nature can do 👍👍

Suburban Ohio here. The cities have bike infrastructure and theyre great for riding, and the country has no traffic and is great for riding. But getting TO either of those areas is a nightmare of monster trucks and wank panzers on roads without shoulders, much less a bike lane. But if you pick the right time, and the right route, you can cruise around neighborhoods for an hour or two with a great deal of ease. Just avoid morning and evening rush hours and you're golden.

Well said- great video. I live 15 miles from Central London in England and can cycle away from the city into the more rural areas, but also often head into the smoke, 0500 and love it !

Really great video, you have a great way of expressing life! I do a bit of suburban riding, a LOT of trail riding, and yesterday did 26 miles roundtrip on the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa with a friend. She's 74 & I'm about 5 yrs younger than her. Can't beat the views or the breeze off Tampa Bay. 😊

Really nice video, relaxing and full of inspiration. Me and the boys are going out for a ride tomorrow, unfortunately we have to ride through a congested high way, and this is also my first time riding through a highway and the distance will be Around 12km back n forth, it may not be much but I just had my bike not less than a month ago, and let me tell you, cycling is a fun way to supplement your workouts and boosts overall health, wish us luck tomorrow:)

We try to do this at night around Halloween and Christmas each year to check out the lights. Otherwise, we stick to trails and roads with little or no traffic.

I live in Texas and fortunately in an area that is all hills and lots of trees. I love my rides on these tree lined barely 2 lane country roads with little to no traffic. A few rabbits, cows, friendly dogs who love the chase, elusive coyote, or tractor headed to work. I love it! But occasionally I go to town and oddly enjoy a slow pace suburban ride and maybe visit a coffee shop if there is one. Cycling is life ✌

These are great videos, my feelings exactly.

Nice ride! I’m still hiking in the mountains! Mostly looking for old homesteads and cemeteries in Shenandoah these days.

Dude, that's hella nice. It made me shed a tear

Totally agree my thoughts exactly 💯

More ‘Morgan Freeman’ style wisdom. Very impactful and you have hit the nail on the head. While I’d never tell anyone to do what I do, or pretend my way is the best way, for me KZfaq is the only social type of thing I look at. Facebook, instagram etc. none of that would work for me and I steer well clear. Up early and out. Get the heart rate up. It’s magic.

Many thanks for this video. I'm 54yrs and i love bike trip. I feel so good just thinking about it. Your words are inspirational. Bye and....good road to you.

More words of wisdom! Nice one Mr Rock👍👍

Good stuff and appreciate talking about forgiving yourself. Been struggling with that. Mountain biking has been a big outlet in dealing with big life mistakes/regrets this past year

Truthfully I consider bicycling to be a sought of CHEAT CODE, for one it circumvents the socio/economics and two, from a physics standpoint, it's as close to Free Energy as I'm ever going to get to experience further, from a Mental Health Standpoint its simply therapeutic!

Great video! I'm 55yrs been biking for 4yrs. Started with a fixed gear and recently got my gravel bike and going bike camping. I feel great, healthy, stronger and lost 25 lbs. Yes, I feel younger! Thanks again for the great video!

Cycling is my therapist, my personal trainer, my philosophy professor, and my priest, all rolled into one.

Great video! I understand a lot of what you were speaking about.

Live your life to the max bro! 😁👍🏼😁👍🏼

Great video. I'm 50 now and, for the most part, have always been a very active person. I walk around 16,000 steps a day . Sometimes, I leave my car parked at my place of work and walk home . And then walk back the next day . I also have rode a bike since i was a kid, and i still do . I absolutely love riding my bikes . I love riding dirt trails, and sometimes i switch it up, and i cruise the beach and my local park . For my 51"st birthday, I'm planning on buying a road bike and riding south from Long Beach to san diego and spending the night in san diego and then head back home . I love how riding a bike makes me feel. It takes me back to when i was a kid 😊

Excellent brother!

“Yes, we’re all going to die someday. But first, you must live.” AMEN to that! Fresh air, sunshine , the sounds of nature, and the rhythm of my pedal strokes 🚴‍♀️❤

Great video! You capture the feeling of riding so perfectly! I retired three years ago to spend more time riding, because quite frankly, none of us knows how much sand remains in our hourglass. In that first summer of retirement, I took up credit card touring (bike packing without the camping), and the first trip I took was riding the Great Allegheny Passage from Point State Park in Pittsburgh. It was a great adventure, and your video brought back some really good memories. Thank you!

It's inspiring to hear how riding a bike has been so transformative to you life and to many others who are commenting here too. Thanks for making these videos Rock. REALLY appreciate the insights and perspective. Rock, I love your Kona. I'd always wanted a Kona "Jake the Snake" cyclocross bike... LONG before there were "gravel" bikes. Today, in the granite state, it's full suspension, on a 2013 Cannondale Jekyll but it never fails to leave me exhausted and renewed all at the same time.

I'm 51 years old, and even in this day and age of widespread awareness of the importance of good mental and physical health, I still encounter people who think of the bicycle as "just a toy" and cycling as "child's play." Occasionally, I come across the elderly person who asks me, "aren't you too old to be playing around on a bicycle?" The fact that I do most of my riding on cutesy small-wheeled folding bikes that look like kids' bikes with their BMX-like wheels doesn't exactly help my case, either. 😅

I agree that nothing helps me more than a long ride on a bike. Time well spent!

I have exactly the same bike and I absolutely love it!

Turn your head back and the children of the corn might be riding behind👍

Hells yeah!✌🏻. The outdoors, is my STRESS RELIEF and MENTAL HEALTH FIX, its my SANITY in a rather UNSANITIZED WORLD, and more often than NOT I prefer being being alone when I venture out, on my own, no particular schedule or plan, just GO! Stay with it Bro!🇺🇸🍻

Very cool! When I did videos I always ended them with; The best thing for your inside is outside. Truth ✌

You are very wise! Some people never learn these lessons, please keep sharing. 😊 People thought I was weird to ride my cruiser in Sarasota on my Lunch hour every day for many years, they did not know it was adding years to my life AND life to my years! 5 or 6 miles along Sarasota Bay was life changing.