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love the energy you give off, beautiful ride ❤

Misstype! I meant "driven from Montreal to Ottawa".

Congratulations, you deserve to feel proud of such an accomplishment. I have driven from Ontreal to Ottawa often and it was enjoyableto see the area again. The furthest I have cycled in a day wasjust over 100K, that was in Ireland on my way from Galway Bay to Dublin back in 1972.

Congrats! I live in Ottawa and have always wanted to try this route in reverse. Incidentally, I know exactly where you were located when you found the groundhog, that guy is always there haha.

Want a challenge? Try the "Log Driver's Waltz" bike ride from Almonte ON thru the Ottawa Valley. Check it out. You'll be all over it.

Great video 😁👍 Reminds me of one of my early bike tours. Google maps sending me down a track that got progressively worse, and eventually dwindled down too nothing. Needing breakfast and arriving in a town too early, and on a sunday! Lots of lessons learned. Big congratulations on 200kms too 👏😎

If I didn’t see the “Except for Rigaud”; I would not have considered watching your video. Those trails west of Rigaud; I regret to tell you; those are snowmobiles and ATV trails. Otherwise; I would have done some biking in that area. I’ve lived on the border town of Pointe-Fortune. Congratulations on your 200km objective on a bike. What you should have done; starting from Montreal; was head north into Laval: follow the numbered bike trail into the town of Deux-Montagnes (two mountains); and take the path to Oka; drive through the reservation; on a road with a wide shoulder; along the Ottawa River; and keep going to Gatineau. That network is 100% paved. You could cross the Ottawa River via ferry or bridge; the only significant town between Montreal and Ottawa is Hawkesbury ON. The scenery was better on the Quebec side. I feel your pain on the bad rural Quebec roads

awesome trip, Dan.. i know many people have done this.. i myself have done 3/4 of this in one go and still wish to do the whole of it in one go someday.

it was awesome.. have done half of it myself, dorval to downtown.. beautiful scenery all the way

Hi Dan, very fantastic to find a countryside road. I watch many videos from Europe where they had this kind of road a lot. I just find this one near here. It will be fun if we had more instead of the car risky road in Quebec. Félicitations !!!

OMG! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. The way you ignored the loud protest on Parliament Hill as you celebrated your achievement completely exhausted, priceless. Love the content!

Mazel Tov!

Montréal-quebec next time ?

I’ve done this route many times both ways, when I go to Montreal from Ottawa for short holidays. One way to cut the distance, which I usually do on the return trip, is to take the EXO train to Vaudreuil and start off from there. It shaves off about 50 km. One nice stop along the way is Beau’s brewery in Vankleek Hill - beer has electrolytes, doesn’t it? 😅

Sweet ride! 🙂

Oh yeah, I've also stopped often in Plantagenet !

Hey Man That's a favourite trip Ottawa - Montreal. I've done it many times, always in the other direction as you are going, but I've always loved it. I have gone through St. Eustache a couple times. I camped at a bike store on the lawn. Really nice people. I like the north shore of the Ottawa River. Many road ends that are good for camping right on the river banks. Ottawa understands all things bicycling, so you'll be in good shape there any time on a bike. Thanks for the entertainment !

The trail from Rigaud to st Eugene is being paved... Two weeks ago i was there talking to the Rigaud town workers who where paving with a new type of special recycled pavement. They paved a small strip and will see how it lasts during the winter, Then will be paving all the way to St Eugene.

That’s a bucket list ride for me. I live in Ottawa so it was fun to see what you enjoyed on the way in. If you’re ever looking for info on cycling around Ottawa, let me know!

That trail is unfortunately not a bike trail in Quebec (it’s a snowmobile trail). It becomes a bike trail in Ontario.

Well done!

congrats, my girlfriend and i have a tandem bicycle, the further we have gone is a back and forth trip to Venise-en-Québec with a total of 117km in one day, but knowing that we can go to Ottawa on a bicycle is great especially with the bike trails network from St-Eugène, that will be a project for 2025 , thank you for sharing !

Congratulations! You are ready to join your local randonneuring club. I’m 69 and did two 200km rides this summer for the first time. Thinking of trying to do 300 next year. You didnt mention anything about major climbs. How many feet of climbing did you do over the 200k?

woah, i wanna do this when the REM opens.

I am so impressed I subscribed.🙂👍

love it!

Did this ride back in 2021 in the opposite direction mostly following regional highways, and I gotta say... the views on the P-R Trail look way way better LOL Definitely going to try this when I can get my hands on a gravel bike sometime. Thanks for documenting your journey :)

@3:44 that Quebec accent

Super-impressed. I know the Prescott-Russell rail trail so well, and the routes through Ottawa. Really cool to see you stretching it.

Amazing! Congrats.

So glad my feed suggested this to me

So many people do exactly as you did -- try and start the Prescott Russell trail in Rigaud, and then back track -- despite it being clearly indicated not to walk or ride on that old CN track. I think the problem is that it is somehow shown on-line as connecting to PR trail, because the old rail line is there. I'm glad you showed this. Looks like a great route and I want to try it next summer. Do you think it is possible to ride that trail with slick road tires or will it be too slippery?

You’re a legend, what a trip

i did montreal to qc on a fixie lol maybe this could a nicer one to try ..

what an incredible trip!! the scenery was so beautiful! I'm amazed at what you do!! :)

200+ km mostly on gravel with headwinds. That's more like 300 km on pavement in ideal conditions. Well done.

The 'trail' from Rigaud to the Ontario border is crazy bad. I got off it and opted for the Haut-de-la-Chute road as soon as I could. I don't know why there's no upkeep on it.

Incredible ride and distance! I would love to hike this over a week or two.

that route is very wind-dependant...you're going east to west against the direction of the prevailing wind..I tried it in the 1980s but ran into a very strong headwind and had to abandon near Alfred, Ontario...Next time I'll go the other direction. The Rigaud-Ottawa rail trail didn't exist in the 80s then and we used route 17...not impressed by the condition of the trail in Quebec but the Ontario section looks good..Congrats on your personal best

As an Ottawan, I quite enjoyed this, new sub

I live in Ottawa and i always assumed that you would just have to ride in the shoulder of the highway to get to Montreal. The trail looks like a wonderful little adventure, but it'll be a while before I'm in good enough shape to give it a try.

I did Ottawa to Rigaud (Well, Voyageur Provincial Park) and then back a few days later. It was a lot of fun and beautiful but very flat. I sugar bonked on the way back and had to lay on the ground for 20 minutes to recoup energy, then ride 20 minutes, repeat x4. Eventually I got to a small town and bought a ton of junk at the convenience store

i'm from ottawa and have been thinking of doing the same thing in reverse! I don't quite have 200km in me, i was considering taking the EXO train from Vaudreuil to shorten that distance.

Thank You because of your great video I know what kind of touring bike I am going to get

Congrats for this landmark ride and new personal distance record. And thanks for recording and sharing it. On your bike going to Ottawa you overcame construction, wind, poor pavement, the abandoned trail between Rigaud and St-Eugène, a dip in energy, and overall soreness. But it was the drive back to Montreal that was more challenging. You did have two spare tires, just not the right size LOL. Well done. Log live the craziness!

The Legend is back baby! Let's GOOO! woot woot

man I've been wanting to do this ride for so long! thanks for the tips. So next trip Montreal - Quebec ?

So when i was supposed to do my ride to Ottawa i was thinking of taking my domane sl6 but after watching the video im taking my checkpoint. So i remember when i took my 292 km ride i had a lot of food on me. I mean a lot of food

Another amazing video!

Aw, too bad for the tire incident. That was terrible. But otherwise, high five for another awesome adventure. You're always fun to watch.