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I just set up a YouTube.com account and will post some of the segments from the TrailTapes video podcast on YouTube. Feel free to embed any of them you like on your own web site. This is the first one, so I’m just testing it out. It’s the helmet cam footage from Ray’s MTB with music video by SORE.
I’ve finally gotten around to working on the video footage from my return ride at Fort Custer near Battle Creek, MI. Hooked up there with Dennis in 2004 for the start of our tour of mountain biking around Michigan. It was so cool, we met there again in July of 2005. This time Dennis brought his camper, a 30 foot trailer, and we camped for the weekend.
The Rock Cut Trail Crew hosts a group ride at every holiday. It’s tradition. But the Thanksgiving ride is perhaps the most special, since it’s the last organized club ride before the park closes for the season. No doubt there will be a group of die-hards out for a night ride on November 30. We did it last year so that we could say we were the last ones to ride at Rock Cut for the season. Sort of pointless bragging, like closing a bar. Of course I was on the trails again at 6am on April Fool’s Day this spring. Last one out, first one in.
I won’t make the Thanksgiving ride this morning and will miss it. Instead I’ll eat way too much and sleep through the football game at the in-laws.
Happy Turkey Day!
Fort Custer is a WWI training camp that is now a forest preserve. Remember from high school history class that WWI utilized trench warefare. Well, the trenches are still here at Fort Custer. But now they’re all overgrown and the trails weave in and out of them. It’s like riding a BMX track through the forest. It’s so fun.
This video is from November of 2004. I was riding with my friend Dennis. We met there again in July 2005 and I have more video of that trip coming soon.
Video has now been converted to Flash Video that should be more compatible to more viewers. The file is still pretty large though, but it will start playing when there is enough downloaded. Be patient.