The missus had to rescue me once in the living room - watching a Giro stage, lots of descending, one guy cornering like he's on a motorcycle, body over the side of the bike, knee out, etc. I was like, "Hm, would that really work?" BANG. I was on the floor. Couldn't unclip fast enough, the missus (well, the future missus at the time) came running in. Saw me sprawled on the floor. Couldn't unclip, couldn't reach my feet, couldn't back pedal because bike was still on trainer. She had to hammer on my shoes to help me get up. Heh.

No ride videos for a bit. I have a lot of stuff to go through.

cdr

The Donut Ride! Legendary. And Jesus Mohammed, what a pace. What was the overall average speed?

The average speed for that ride was about 30 kph though it includes the 18 kms or so pedaling in a leisurely pace getting to/from the rendezvous place from my home and also the stop and go during the Donut Ride while in the city limits. I am just glad to be able to keep up (most of the time) with the guys that do the 15th Side road route. I still struggle whenever I attempt to do the longer 17th Side road route... I always get dropped in the hills.

Here is a video I took last January where I got dropped in one of those hills (the guy leading the charge up those hills is riding a fixie):

Quite frankly there is too much freaking data there for my taste. I mean, don't get me wrong. Nice videos, lots of time spent editing/uploading, great scenery, nice rides, etc. However, looking at all the tachometers/gauges is too distracting.

BTW, how long does it take you guys to upload videos in HD to youtube? I just uploaded a family video that was 9:30 or so and it took like 30 min to upload on an internet cable connection. 45 min later, it is still not processed by youtube, so it looks like crap despite the HD format.


This has got to be the one video that has the least amount of shaking and moving despite the camera position. Could you please post a picture of how you have your camera attached to the drops?

Here's a video from Saturday's Cat's Hill Classic with telemetry:

And another from Sunday's NCNCA Masters District Crit:

Image of my bike kitted for video capture (a GoPRO HD on the drops and a rear facing GoPRO Wide on the seatpost):


Pic was taken last Winter hence the mudguards.

One of my teammates had linked to one of your videos from a few weeks ago. What are you using to overlay the data?

Very nice!

Personally, I love to see the wattage and grade info. The blue bar on the left is one of the least intrusive ways to see the power.
Some impressive numbers there!

I've rolled my own software to overlay the telemetry. I probably would have used dashware or trackvision if I had been aware of them when I started, but now I'm happy that I've gone this route as I can display exactly the data that's of most interest to me without obscuring too much of the video. Further, I can plug an Ant+ USB stick into my laptop and display realtime HR and power data as well, which allows me to watch my races and reproduce the efforts on the trainer.

cool videos.

was that the M45 race? we were kicking back near the start/finish drinking beer and grilling BBQ between races. fun day of racing.

Great first posts there - I made a decision after yesterdays brush with catastrophic stupidity to put away 20 bucks a week. Hopefully around this time next year I'll get some shmancy fancy wheel with a powertap device. I'll stick with my current Cateyes for now and just buy the whole thing at once. Hate to invest in a G500 now only to find the 7 on sale later :/ plus the added... no killer ability that would actually make those videos cool looking.

That was the 40+ race. I could smell that BBQ at the start line. Definitely a fun day.

Here is the video from my race on Sunday. I edited it down to a nice and tidy 10 minutes for youtube consumption. This was supposed to be 5 laps of a roughly 15 mile circult for 75 miles, but stupidly I attacked a few minute into the first lap to try to bridge to a break of 3 up the road. I was joined by another guy and kept going way harder than I should have and was subsequently dropped shortly after the group caught me. It was a monumentally stupid move, but it was fun.

Some really cool videos posted in here! that said, here's an unspectacular video from a ride I did this past weekend. My favorite sequence is the footage shot at the 7K elevation point. It was mile 70 or so (and over 10K climbed) for most of the cyclists, and it pretty much showed with everyone's pace, which if they were going more than 6mph at that point, they were flying!

https://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/michsis/?action=view&current=BAclips2.flv

These umd's videos were good and keep getting better.
The commentary helps to get a real feeling for the race. I can almost feel your pain!

I concur, pretty awesome.

KABLAMO! funny!

I took my first video today and checkout the ****** at 9:30.

Are your lungs okay?

Was there a constant 40kph sidewind or is the camera just mounted at an angle? I was expecting you to fall over, and then when that dualie drove by and obliterated you with that black exhaust I was surprised you didn't collapse.

Yeah, I heard him coming so I closed my mouth and held my breath. then flipped him off, since he totally did it on purpose IMHO.

I started carrying 2 rocks in my jersey now for *******s just like him. Water bottles don't do them big trucks justice, so I have resorted to trying to break out a window. Only when I am not in my team kit of course. Thus far, only one idiot has stopped after I pelted their vehicle, and when he stepped out of the vehicle he realized I wasn't one of them whippet cyclist. I guess 6'2" at 230LBS, football linebacker style, kind of scared him back into the car. At that point I became the ******* and tormented him at the red light in front of his girlfriend. Awww!

That's pretty dumb

Oh I will agree that it is pretty dumb, but I am tired of these Chicago people and their attitudes. I have a fighting background, so I think that makes it worse when an idiot does **** like that to me when I am riding. This year though seems to be a much higher incident rate thus far. The past 2 years, I could count on one hand the amount of times I was buzzed. As a matter of fact, I got buzzed by wannabe gang bangers the other day in a local town and I smacked their car with a water bottle. Just so happens a cop witnessed the whole thing, so I thought I was screwed, but I really didn't care. Nope, cop busted the wanna be gang bangers, and about 10 minutes later he pulled me over to tell me the good news. In the long run, I think I have the right to defend myself. If I hit the wrong person and get my ass handed to me, it wouldn't be the first time for a good ass whoopin' and I am sure it won't be the last. If you give me space and let me ride, I will wave and give you a thumbs up, and if I catch you at the light I will tell you thanks and that I appreciate your safety and driving style