Well, if you like flying drones and taking photos/video and telling stories, then you are adding it riding. If you're not into that stuff, that's ok too. I enjoy that stuff and do it on and off the bike.

Thanks. You're not alone in hating editing. I do too lol. But it's kind of like climbing a big hill - you lowkey hate the process but like the end result!

Thanks.
Was hoping some might post videos.
Maybe more to come?

Hopefully others post. I've got more riding videos on my YouTube channel

This is an interesting discussion. I think the product is amazing, but I'm with the others who say it's too expensive, complicated, and time consuming. I don't even want to buy a GPS computer or an action camera. I do obsessively record every ride (except when I forget), and I tried a GPS computer, and it was too much. Some feel an action camera is essential for assigning liability in a collision, and they have a point, but it's already too involved for me to start a ride: If it's a cold month, I have to bind my pants cuffs. Make sure I have my roadside toolkit, put on gloves and helmet, adjust my rearview mirror. Are my lights working and charged? Will I listen to podcasts? Sometimes I take Citi Bike just so I don't need to worry about equipment. I usually bring my helmet when I ride Citi Bike, but sometimes I don't even do that. When we were kids, to ride, we swung a leg over the bike and started pedaling.

I think drones are super cool, and I love what they make. I may need to learn to edit videos for my next job, but it seems tedious.

The DJI Neo is game changing - $200 and with automated flight paths. You turn it on, set the flight path (i.e., - straight and down, fly away and rise and then return, circle the subject, follow subject etc... - and then launch it from your hand.


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ecf745c3b4.jpg

yup. I didn't even have a water bottle cage

hmmm

Recently saw(HEARD) something very similar to that at a tourist stop in Japan. It was really pretty annoying.

yeah & they remind me of the Ukraine/Russian battle field videos. just horrifying

At the end of the recent abbreviated London Edinburgh London ride, I was clapping for finishers, a dude came along with a follow drone.

My thought, whether 50+ influenced or not, was meh.

Editing, including music and narration, is the missing ingredient whenever I think about trying any kind of video thing. Do I want to edit out anything my cute kid said in order to make the video short enough for grandma not to lose interest?

Eric Porter posted a sequence of videos a few years ago when he lost a drone in a tree during a hike-up-ski-down trip with his son, and went back for it in the summer with lineman-lumberjack tree-climbing gear

And without a helicoptering parent, or an electronic nanny. Somehow didn't get lost, or suffer from the lack of a recorded metric or video from each day's ride.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...247fb66c21.jpg

I respect both approaches. I remember the day of no pictures or videos. I wish I had pictures of me on my bike. I have none. I write a fair bit, and I realize that I need to journal, and I'm going to do it more than ever. But if you don't like to, I get it.

I got lost plenty. I got pretty good at getting myself unlost. Once asked a farmer which way to the city, and he said, "which city?" That startled me.

for a few years I've been experimenting with aerial kite photography but not while cycling. however I did try one time! hahaha. did not have enough wind to get it up so I tried cycling & that provided just enough lift, but never got it very high, that day
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...3b5ced942d.png
I should try this spot again, it's really pretty
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...d594443ef4.png
I've since moved on to a better kite & camera, but this was my setup at that time (2021)
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...0f830e48ef.png

What a super cool idea and unique perspective of a near area. Please post images if you do try this again!