Reefton Spur Video

Ok bellow is the link to the video from the Reefton Spur Trip. Its 28 Meg

The video facing forward was taken between Marysville and the Reeftons Spur
with a semi wet road so I was taking it easy. The footage facing
backwards is on the Reefton Spur. It was just edited both the front and
back facing footage together to make it a little more interesting. There
was a plan to get some front footage of the Spur but the batteries went
dead. Finally this is basically the highlights of an hours worth of footage
put to music.

A final note to avoid legal action even though its not dodgy
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The rider of the bike is unknown, I was just given the footage.
The rider of the bike does not appears in the Video
The rider was within the 100kmh posted speedlimit at all times
This footage may or may not be at the original speed.
White lines crossed when overtaking were added in during the editing and are
just a special effect.
Webhosting is provided by a friend and is not the rider or me as I have no
access to webhosting.
Finally never ride above your ability or copy something you have downloading
especially ghost rider.


To download right click the link below and click save target else it won't
work
http://users.tpg.com.au/adslj3v7/reeftonSpur.wmv

 

LOL...thats cool man. I'm going to do mine again but with the speedo
actually showing and the camera setup higher.

 

nice job, my favourite piece of road, doing it on Sat as part of a 3 day
ride though the vic alps

you haven't got a pic of the camera mounts have you?

mh

 

An empty shoe box inside the tankbag and the camera secured with lots of
gaffer tape to the top of the tank bag works pretty well on the 12R.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

youre pure class Nev

Mh

 

If you want class look at these then
http://www.pashnit.com/more/cameramount.htm

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

That is pretty good! Let us know when you put together the next one

Mark.

 

I actually designed my own setup because I didn't won't to worry about
batteries

I installed a cigarette lighter in the boot of the bike.(Basically wired it
directly to the Battery) Brought a Cigarette lighter voltage regulator with
a 12 volt setting so not to short out the Little Cam in case of Voltage
spikes. The video Camera I use uses its own battery and that's what went
flat on me.

I put the video camera in a back pack. My future plan is to get a new Sony
video camera which will fit in the boot of the bike and I will have no need
for the back pack.

The little camera cost me $219 the Voltage Reg $30, the sig light socket $10
all from JCar

If you click the link bellow you will see the
Video Camera, Mini Av Cam, Mini Cam Clap I made and Voltage Regulator.
http://users.tpg.com.au/adslj3v7/camera2.JPG

 

Good footage there Bob, Some of my fav Rds there.
You mind if I post the link to a mates Pommy website message board? They
don't believe how good we have it here when I tell them.
The website is the link that's with my sig below. Feel free to check it
out.

 

very nice. I'd have much preferred it with just the bike noises though.

Charlie

 

Yeah go ahead, the link will be good for about a week.

 

I need a better Microphone. Basically the wind sound made the original
footage sound pretty average. With the music its not that noticable.

 

What? No burnout through the gravel at Cumberland Junction.
What? no wheelies?
Some pretty dubious lines taken through corners too... could be a bit
smoother.
Also don't stray over the white lines on those roads.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Yeah wasn't sure what the new tyres could do on a wet road plus was still
getting my confidence back after comming off on green tyres at 20kmh. Was
finding myself stiffening up and taking some horrible lines. The hair pin in
the foots has particularly bad line which is very unually for me as I would
normally do them the best, at Phillip Island I always overtake people on
the two slowest, tightest corners. MG and Honda

You would have probably noticed the footage facing backwoods was alot
smoother, the road was dry and my confidence was starting to come back
(mind you I still wasn't leaning the bike right over like I usually do to
the footpegs). Personally I'm not happy with the footage taken facing
forward but batterys were flat before I had a chance to do it again.

 

Thanks Bob.

 

I particularly liked the footage of your boot.
Enthralling viewing.

Some smoking speeds there. You were really blowing away that babyblade
that was sitting right on your tail.

The actual clip came out OK though. Last time i tried to film something
I just got 100kms of tar :/

 

bob said....

bo> Ok bellow is the link to the video from the Reefton Spur Trip.

I've recently purchased a digital video camera. The missus is learning
Adobe Premiere. Me, I just take the footage, she fixes it up.

What gear and software were used to create this video? I've heard that
you can purchase little cameras that can be mounted remote from the
camera, say, a helmet-cam, or whatever.

I'd rather do that than duct tape the camera to the tank, as one mate
did at Tumut last year. The camera didn't fare too good...

 

The difference is the other guys I was with do that trail every second
weekend, this was my first time. That footage facing backwards was the
first time I had riden down the Spur in that direction and I wasn't sure if
the road was completely dry. Who goes down an unknown road with leaf rubish
all over it flat out and lives along time?

Finally I do suck but I refuse to admit it cos of the ego thing

 

Well, from reading one of bob's replies, he had a small external camera
hooked up the the camcorder in his backpack. It looks like it needed it's
own external 12V power.

 

Tim Moran said....

TM> http://www.helmetcamera.com/

TM> would be what you're looking for, looks like a pretty good system,

Yep, so it does. At $309 USD plus shipping, probably wouldn't see much
change from $400 landed. I wonder where I can find an Aussie retail
outlet.

TM> although I'd be curious to see how much quality it cost you over the
TM> internal lens in the camcorder.

That video of Reefton looked OK.