Helmet-cam mountain biking video of a late season nighttime group ride at Rock Cut State Park in Rockford, IL. Shot September, 2004.

Mountain biking video from the Trenches trail at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, MI, a WWI army training facility, now overgrown and a forest preserve. The trails are like a BMX track through the woods.

TrailTapes.com will soon offer TrailTapes: Mountain Bike TV, a video podcast, or “vodcast.” The show will feature interviews with mountain bikers, bike vendors and manufactureres, mechanics and other interesting people doing interesting things on mountain bikes. I plan to launch the show in February. Topics for the first couple episodes include:

• Winter Riding
• How to make your own studded tires
• Trail building to IMBA standards
• Bike tune-up tips for spring
• New products for 2006
• Ray’s Indoor MTB in Cleveland, OH (hopefully an interview with Ray, himself)

I hope to make it a monthly show that you’ll be able to subscribe to in your video-capable podcast aggregator, like iTunes, and watch on your iPod.

Here’s the opening sequence.