Oregon Camera (Bike Cam)

**skelstar** · 29th January 2007, 13:01

Must be much better attaching to yourself wouldn't it? ...reduce heaps of vibration.

**Skunk** · 29th January 2007, 14:10

I look around at the scenery and who's passing me too much. Kinda ruins the effect. Apart from that I get double vision sometimes due to the vibration.

Maybe I could rubber mount myself?

**skelstar** · 29th January 2007, 14:21

Trying to resist the temptation to get a piccy from images.google.com to suit your last comment

**Shadows** · 29th January 2007, 14:43

Originally Posted by Skunk

I look around at the scenery and who's passing me too much. Kinda ruins the effect.

Yeah, same here. Not wanting to look like Joe 90 also has a part to play in not sticking the camera to my helmet.

**rustys** · 29th January 2007, 15:49

Just tried the camera out on my 1100 mounted on the side of my helmet,stays running fine,takes a good picture,can't hear the bikes engine or gear changes in this postion,mic picks up wind noise,and like anything on your helmet ie straps and shirt collar flapping in the breeze. But you don't realise that actually your head moves around quite a lot ie wind buffetting, bumps and general scanning of the corners you don't get a good view of the
effects, and its also hard to gauge where to aim it when its mounted on the helmet
The track yesterday was quite bumpy ( using the small circut ) Iam racing a zxr 400 and had it mounted on the brackets that hold the front top fairing and screen, so i guess this was'nt the best place ,I also had it mounted on the tail piece facing rearwards.The tank on the zxr is lower than the tripple tree so i will have to pack the camera up somehow.
I have come to the conclusion that it must be firmly mounted and no big bumps.
Wonder how ( Idubbs) is going with his mounting arm from RAMSOLUTIONS.

**The_Dover** · 29th January 2007, 15:58

I picked one of these up from Noel Leemings yesterday for 169.99. score.but I haven't got an SD card yet cos I'm too tight to pay retail prices and I can get a 2gig for 40 bucks tomorrow.

I'm just about to put my first video up on that tube site if I can figure it out but it's only at the lowest res.

I have mounted the camera to the mirror stem on my gixxer and it seems to be ok, still get a bit of that wavy flag shit but for under 200 notes it's not too bad given it's a piece of piss to use and comes with all the mounting hardware you need.

I haven't had a chance to take it out today cos I've barley left the shitter since 1 am. God bless wireless.

**Finn** · 29th January 2007, 17:32

Originally Posted by The_Dover

I have mounted the camera to the mirror stem on my gixxer.

Cool. You've just doubled the value of your gixxer.

**The_Dover** · 29th January 2007, 18:28

here's a couple of pics of the mount.

**Idubbs** · 30th January 2007, 22:51

Originally Posted by rustys

Just tried the camera out on my 1100 mounted on the side of my helmet,stays running fine,takes a good picture,can't hear the bikes engine or gear changes in this postion,mic picks up wind noise,and like anything on your helmet ie straps and shirt collar flapping in the breeze. But you don't realise that actually your head moves around quite a lot ie wind buffetting, bumps and general scanning of the corners you don't get a good view of the
effects, and its also hard to gauge where to aim it when its mounted on the helmet
The track yesterday was quite bumpy ( using the small circut ) Iam racing a zxr 400 and had it mounted on the brackets that hold the front top fairing and screen, so i guess this was'nt the best place ,I also had it mounted on the tail piece facing rearwards.The tank on the zxr is lower than the tripple tree so i will have to pack the camera up somehow.
I have come to the conclusion that it must be firmly mounted and no big bumps.
Wonder how ( Idubbs) is going with his mounting arm from RAMSOLUTIONS.

I'm pretty happy with my setup - the vidcam's held pretty firm and I like to think the rubber isolation plays it's part. Footage I got is reasonable though I reckon it may be helpful to use a high speed SD card instead of the cheap and nasty one that I recently bought...might just get rid of some of the wavey lines. Must agree with Dover - not bad kit considering the price and ease of use. Hey, by the way .....another of our members here has used a Ram Solutions mount to fix his vidcam onto his tank using a suction cup attachment. Apparently gives the advantage of elevation over looking the instruments as well as the road.! Holds on well too....

**skelstar** · 31st January 2007, 07:48

Hey Dover, is that vid quality about the same when you just run it on your PC (ie youTube hasn't degraded the quality)?

**DMNTD:Me** · 31st January 2007, 20:50

Well my Oregon vid cam just suffered a 200+ tumble 'n roll....and the little farker still works too!!

Hope to have it sorted for this saturday's trackday,should make for some interesting slow mo

**beyond** · 31st January 2007, 21:12

Originally Posted by DMNTD

Well my Oregon vid cam just suffered a 200+ tumble 'n roll....and the little farker still works too!!

Hope to have it sorted for this saturday's trackday,show make for some interesting slow mo

Hopefully it was still not attached to your bike during this tumble and roll???

**T.I.E** · 31st January 2007, 21:15

im surprised it didnt fall off before.
that cam sounds amazing.

**DMNTD:Me** · 31st January 2007, 21:18

Originally Posted by beyond

Hopefully it was still not attached to your bike during this tumble and roll???

LOL....nah fortunately not!! Had it strapped to my left wrist so I could so close road action up 'n down the Kaimai's but to no avail....
Highly impressed that this wee cheap cam still works after such a wicked tumble