darkhand

I enjoy watching these races; inspires me to ride more

If any of you guys have youtube/flickr streams link them here.

So far I've found
https://www.youtube.com/yetanotherwoo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/swoo/tags/video/

darkhand

oops, mods can you move this to road-racing?

Stupid multitabbed browsing

carpediemracing 

There are a few helmet cammers on BF. I'm one of them (sprinterdellacasa on youtube and blogspot), although I haven't taken or posted one for a couple years now.

obra is another:
https://www.veloreview.com/obra3/2008...nior-men.html/

I'm sure there are more.

cdr

Humongous

Does anyone have camera recommendations?

seb1041

Wade got 3 or 4 crits documented with a helmet cam here:

https://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/

Porkchopwi

CX race from last fall (camera is mounted too far forward on my helmet)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltwelCHMlQA

And a few stills I shot with it in a race a few weeks ago.




Using the GoPro Hero 5 (I think) Nifty little tool. Downpour for last week's race so it stayed in the car (though it's in a watertight case) as I figured it wouldn't see anything useful anyway. As it turned I couldn't see jack either (and hail hurts!).

gbg

What do you mean Popeye's ran out of chicken!!!

carpediemracing 

I've only used my own setup (chasecam.com plus a real camcorder that can record as a VCR).

https://sprinterdellacasa.blogspot.co...elmet-cam.html

I've also used a GoPro and found it a bit lacking. No feedback, short battery life (30 min? with expensive batteries, under 10 with alkalines). However the mounts etc are good on it, and it's very light.

Ideally I'd like two-three GoPro size cams that have a 1.5-2 hour recording capability. I'd mount them on my helmet, under the bars, and under the seat. Helmet mount really catches a lot of action, it's the most stable (no vibration - your head is well suspended). Under bar to give idea of closeness + aero tucks. Underseat to show what's behind, also cornering angle.

cdr

Porkchopwi

I've had good luck with the batteries, using Energizer recharables, they'll shoot for a few hours. I got about 1,200 images in the shoot above (though light was an issue when it got cloudy and rendered about 1/2 the stills unusable). I've also been able to run the 56 min record time on the 2MB SD card (the max the GoPro can handle) with no problem when shooting video.

The feedback issue can be a bit troublesome. It's a lot of trial and error out on non-race rides. No sound either....

obra3

My stinking road races are now too long for the battery life.

CDR- I'm still crossing my fingers about getting back east and having dueling cams.

I've been looking at a couple new setups too.

This one looks interesting... https://www.vholdr.com/

tho the limiter for me is everything seems to be battery life.

bayareawheeler

ive got the Vholdr and have a few rides recorded so far. 2 lunch training rides and a Track Omnium racing the B's - still playing with the angle to get it right.

https://www.vimeo.com/4189871

obra3

Sweet.... how's the raw footage?

cedricbosch

UGH! Rule #1 of helmet cam videos: NO MUSIC.

carpediemracing 

Battery life for the recorder is the killer. The chasecam I use can "see" for 10-12 hours, but recording what is being seen is the problem.

I bought 4 and 16 MB SD cards for my friend's GoPro but the batteries died too quickly.

The vholdr seems like it would be good - easy record button, 16MB SD compatible, and if you have a small laptop battery with the plug for the vholdr you should be able to record for quite a while (plug meaning the little connector pictured on their site - that is the plug that recharges my yet to be used for cams HD camcorder).

Re: music - I experimented with music and non-music, and I found that I like the music better. Comments I saw, not meant for me, seemed to verify that. I'm also a music person - I like certain music, I studied for a long time. In addition the music on my videos, except for the short clips I borrowed from "real" performers, were all performed by my brothers (or at least bands in which my brother played). And I have no idea how to set up a windproof mic (right now the mic is covered in a few layers of duct tape), and all you could hear in the first bunches of clips was wind noise.

Finally I was looking for a way to motivate myself, to trigger an adrenaline rush. I found that it's more effective with music for me. Once I realized that my now-wife got a bit nervous when she saw how I trained (the Summer St Sprint vid was for her to illustrate to her how I trained, what it was like to ride along with me, but I quickly shut it off the first time I started showing it to her as she got that look on her face when I passed a car). Now I make the clips for me. I may watch the raw footage when I'm on the trainer, but the 1.5 GB file sizes don't lend themselves to posting on YouTube. Plus I race boring most of the time. The short clips condense the race nicely for me. Since even the full def short clips are 100 MB (YouTube's limit), I can watch much higher def clips. Those are the reduced size short clips - when saved normally, they're 150 MB or so. I spend a lot of time on the trainer and the clips help move an hour go by quickly.

I do remember Howard Stern criticizing a talk show for playing music in the background the whole time. If the show can't stand on its own and needs music to prop it up, it's not good enough. Or something like that. I'll be the first to admit that my vids could use some music, esp with the "great sound" (not) that I capture.

cdr

socalrider

Some good stuff from the early days of helmet cams.. Helmet cam video starts at 1:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5z1SMBKGfU

bayareawheeler

turn the volume down genius