Chris's Bike Blog » Camera http://waterhead.eu/bikes Living with a BMW F8000GS and a Honda Goldwing Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:08:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Metal Mules and a Movie Cam http://waterhead.eu/bikes/archives/86 http://waterhead.eu/bikes/archives/86#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +0000 chris http://chrisjk.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/metal-mules-and-a-movie-cam/ I ordered some of these for the GS quite a while ago – in late April if memory serves – at which time they were awaiting delivery of the new Scorpion exhausts which are needed if one wants a balanced pannier set up with no exhaust cut-out, as I do. As I was going off to Italy, I reckoned I could happily wait for the exhaust and on my return I had fixed up to go down to Hassocks last week but then Paul at MM phoned to tell me he is still waiting for the exhaust. OK, I rearranged the date for tomorrow but then this afternoon another conversation with Paul took place – déjà vu all over again as they say..still no delivery date on the Scorpion.

I shall go for a ride in any case. I got myself a little Action Cam today and have fitted it to the bike, so I hope to have fun tomorrow recording some nice lanesAction Cam

It came with a mount designed to fit something like a bike’s handlebars plus a couple of straps to fix it around a helmet or one’s arm. I couldn’t use the handlebar mount as it was so made up a fixture to sit in my RAM mount (good job I had a bit of ally rod and plate as well as a lathe handy!)

Another neat thing I have come across is a plugin for my Tomtom Rider – I did not even know it could use plugins! This one is called Event Logger and amongst other things, it can record a track log on the Rider. The program is free and on a short test seems to work as advertised. I shall try a longer test on my ride tomorrow.

]]> http://waterhead.eu/bikes/archives/86/feed 0 Ride Out http://waterhead.eu/bikes/archives/83 http://waterhead.eu/bikes/archives/83#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:44:00 +0000 chris http://chrisjk.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/ride-out/ I had a great ride yesterday with guys on the UKGSer forum. We started and finished at Newlands, taking in three counties in a 120 mile loop through some very pretty country side and along a fine mix of roads including some gravelly muddy stuff that almost threatened to become off-road, shady country lanes and some faster stuff with nice sweepers. I was pleased with the road going performance of the TKC80s although rather cautious when it came to exploring their full potential in the bends – which often had gravel just waiting around the bend – I wasn’t desirous of finding their maximum lean angle the hard way but I suspect it is quite a bit more than I was prepared to try.

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