The Ride Report

As promised, I’ve recorded some more video, this time with a better camera and at higher resolution. I fabbed a camera mount out of PVC pipe and a galvanized steel corner brace and used this to mount my miniDV camcorder on the bike. The mount came out really well; I even managed to set it up so I can look down along the fork through my fairing and see the camera’s LCD screen to confirm that it’s on and recording (or that I forgot to turn it on in the first place). I’ll post pix of the mount later.

I took it out for a trial run last Thursday. I met up with a couple guys from my club and we rode that favorite route I keep talking about — Bouquet Canyon. It was a beautiful day for riding and I recorded the whole run and posted it to YouTube. It’s posted below, split into five parts due to YouTube’s 10 minute video length.

I also included music in the video. In parts one and two I tried to approximate the music I was actually listening to as I rode, but then I felt guilty about copyright infringement, so in the last parts I used music from the Podsafe Music Network (which features music shared by the artists via a Creative Commons license). I leaned pretty heavily on a band I really like called Point22.

Enjoy:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five