Rimutaka Hill Road - Video

[Slingshot]

Mrs S & I decided that lunch in Martinborough was the order of the day. This gave me the perfect opportunity to test out the new cam set-up on the bike.

This is a short clip heading up the Rimutaka Hill Road (heading north), for those of you that know the road you should recognise this section as the first part of the actual hill road (ie. just after Kaitoke Country Gardens).

The new cam-mount seems to have worked quite well but the sound isn't great so I've put a song clip over the top, this also helps to disguise the false neutral I hit.

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

[Coyote]

Awful music, I hate you

Good camera quality though, great film

EDIT: Play at double speed

[Grizz]

Awesome, really like it

[Skunk]

What I could hear sounded pretty good (the bike sounds behind the music I mean); as for the video - brilliant!

[WanaGo]

Very cool Mr S
Well done.

WanaGo

[Sniper]

Well done Slingshot. Damn you for that music though

[Antallica]

Awesome, make sure you do that on the next big KB ride.

[Slingshot]

Awful music, I hate you

Good camera quality though, great film

EDIT: Play at double speed

Haha...I was singing that to Mrs S on the way back home through the intercom so I thought it was fitting.
Ring ding ding ding bau bau!!

[DemonWolf]

very cool... can ya give us a pick where ya actually mounted the cam?

[Mental Trousers]

Very good. Got an extended version without that farken frog??

[Suney]

Nice video, nice riding, awesome quality!

[Slingshot]

Very good. Got an extended version without that farken frog??

I've got sixty minutes worth of footage from today. Problem is the file size would get kinda big.
If the weather is good this weekend I'll do some more, hopefully following another bike.

[gamgee]

i wouldn't mind seeing the video of all the twisties, i was enjoying that!

[myvice]

Cool vid!
Nealy fell off my chair on one of those corners... Its NOT the Mac's I'm drinking!
Well, it might be....

[Slingshot]

Here's a pic of the mount. I've had a bracket made up that mounts to the frame and the plan was to mount the camera directly to that (without the box). I tried it but there was way too much vibration and the heads on the camera kept jumping.
So I got some perspex for $5 and had a go at making a box, perspex is actually really easy to work with.
Now that the proof of concept has worked I might build a new box, next time I'll try and get it square and maybe a little smaller.