Victorian Alps Ride 2013 Day one

Hi all

Here is Day one of the Vic alps ride 2013

it requires a password   "dvc"

it goes for 20 mins, and please watch it in HD and i hope you enjoy day one

http://vimeo.com/83244237

Wow! What a great video! Must have also been a great trip to.

I just returned home yesterday from an overnight ride to Bombala via the Bonang Hwy. returning down the Cann with a couple of mates on our annual New Years trip.

The Bonang Hwy. has become my favorite piece of road in Vic now. With such a long stretch of road with so many bends, good surface, no tightening radius' or off camber corners, it makes for some great riding. Sham about the 80k speed limit which we all obey don't we! I've ridden it 4 times all up. 3 in the last couple of years & once 30 years ago when most of it was dirt, it was still good even then.

Just one question. How & where did you mount the camera to the side of your FA? I've been trying to figure out how to do it without the camera vibrating.

Hi Kelpie

Thanks for that, and thats just day 1 still got 2 more days to do.

I hope they never seal the rest of it. The dirt keeps the wannabe's away so it stays off the radar

as for my camera i mounted with the gopro suction mount to the fairing, tethered of course to the bike, if you look at the bombala to bonang section where i was shooting the guys flyby you can see it mounted on the fairing

Great  video James. Now I want to go for a ride but can't   

I'm still uploading footage ... I have a lot of video I thought was no good due to bug splatter but I'll upload it anyway.
And I've lost all the backward facing video ... because I'm a dill  

some tips, try and keep your camera as close to the base as possible, keeps the leverage down, what ever camera you have shoot at the highest frame rate possible and as wide as possible

ie. my gopro pro black is set to 720p 100 FPS wide, my Contour roam 2 is set 720p 50fps wide,   these settings settle the mild vibration that happens to the camera whilst on the bike. as i do professional event capture, i have three gopro's 2 blacks and a silver plus a contour roam,

when i mount them on the bike the camera that is rear facing on the rear of the bike get the most vibration so the higher the FPS it needs so i set it to 100fps, forward facing camera's can be either 50 or a 100 (Pal TV setting) same with body mount i find the Contour which is always either mounted to my mates helmet as in the video or mine so 25 FPS is fine

so rule of thumb if the camera is not mounted fairly rigid your going to get shit footage

cheers

Jim

so how is the wrist Baz not going to cause to much future trouble i hope.

Bug splatter is a occupational hazard, as well as stone chip, actually smashed a housing lense on my go pro from a rock.

Really would like to get day 2 and three stuff of you would be great plus it you shot some of where you got lost.......... opps did i say that

cheers Baz look forward to our next adventure

Jim

Baz please dont try and up load files any bigger than 2 gig as Box will reject it

Jimcoleman wrote:
I hope they never seal the rest of it. The dirt keeps the wannabe's away so it stays off the radar

I fully agree with that! A little dirt never hurt anyone.

Awesome Jim,
Bring on day 2 & 3!   

Day 2

http://vimeo.com/84140763

Password dvc

35 mins

I have finished the whole trip


if you have an hour to spare, enjoy

http://vimeo.com/84281776

pass is dvc

I still can't believe the weather you organised Jim. A group I know rode the snowys the following weekend and had really bad can't see where your going weather.
I look forward to the next one.

ps, My arm is just out of the cast .. can't use it much but I'll be right for Drake.

Jimcoleman wrote:I have finished the whole trip


if you have an hour to spare, enjoy

http://vimeo.com/84281776

pass is dvc

Thanks Jim, very impressed with the quality so far.

Yes baz we had it good, 2 out of three 3 years so far.