When these bikes are sorted they're actually pretty good! Here's a vid I just shot of a ride around my local loop testing a new camera position. Goes from startup (cold) to shutdown (check that idle out).
Since we're a global community it'd be great to see a few more videos showing what your neck of the woods looks like.
When these bikes are sorted they're actually pretty good! Here's a vid I just shot of a ride around my local loop testing a new camera position. Goes from startup (cold) to shutdown (check that idle out).
Since we're a global community it'd be great to see a few more videos showing what your neck of the woods looks like.
Are those the 'tar snakes' I hear a lot about on other forums? We don't have those over here, just a lot of holes in the road deep enough to put a large dent in rims!
Lol. Never heard the phrase “Tar snakes” I like that.My experience with bike mounted cams is not good, vibration in harmony with shutter speed creates terrible video 'jello' effects. Tried soft/hard mounting but at some point the 'jello' effect creeps in. By far the smoothest mount is on your helmet but you then capture all the head movements. The 360 cam has such an extreme wide angle lens that perspective is the problem, so it goes on the end of a long pole to improve perspective (and eliminates the 'jello') but then you have the problem of a 4 feet long stick getting in the way. Then there is the prob of capturing sound... built-in mics suffer with wind noise over 20mph so my helmet cam has an external mic on the inside of my helmet which 99% eliminates wind noise, is good for voice overs but muffles external sound. My compromise so far is to vid capture using 360 cam and capture the sound on another cam mounted near to the exhaust then merge the two in software edits... I get a reasonable vid out of it but I'm not there yet, lots more experimenting to be done.
Richard, fingers crossed that enough of us will still be on our 961's for next years Welford meet!
Scott, those megaphones make a nice sound
I'm on the FB page 'Society of Grey Beard Bikers', mostly 'soft porn' and harley talk but they frequently talk about the 'tar snakes' being bad as the weather worsens.
Not 'the telegraph road' of Dire Straits fame? That song still gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it, best with the volume high on a Class-A amp
I just listened to it myself to make sure I remember it.
Yep the very same Road.I'm on the FB page 'Society of Grey Beard Bikers', mostly 'soft porn' and harley talk but they frequently talk about the 'tar snakes' being bad as the weather worsens.
Not 'the telegraph road' of Dire Straits fame? That song still gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it, best with the volume high on a Class-A amp
My experience with bike mounted cams is not good, vibration in harmony with shutter speed creates terrible video 'jello' effects. Tried soft/hard mounting but at some point the 'jello' effect creeps in. By far the smoothest mount is on your helmet but you then capture all the head movements. The 360 cam has such an extreme wide angle lens that perspective is the problem, so it goes on the end of a long pole to improve perspective (and eliminates the 'jello') but then you have the problem of a 4 feet long stick getting in the way. Then there is the prob of capturing sound... built-in mics suffer with wind noise over 20mph so my helmet cam has an external mic on the inside of my helmet which 99% eliminates wind noise, is good for voice overs but muffles external sound. My compromise so far is to vid capture using 360 cam and capture the sound on another cam mounted near to the exhaust then merge the two in software edits... I get a reasonable vid out of it but I'm not there yet, lots more experimenting to be done.
Richard, fingers crossed that enough of us will still be on our 961's for next years Welford meet!
Scott, those megaphones make a nice sound
That ride was a prep ride for a run with the local Norton Club around the Coromandel loop a popular bike run. Has a lot of ups, a lot of downs, a lot of lefts and a lot of rights!
I've sped it up in parts where there's traffic or road works.
Would still love to see a few others rides from further afield.
