Allie's home made camera mount

[posplayr]

Well thought out, Jim!

Greg (Nerobro) and I created a "last minute" camera mount for my Vetter fairing (that hung off the right side using the "lowers" mounting screws) the night before we did a track lap at the Indy Moto GP two years ago. Despite rubber dampening in various places it suffered from vibration at higher RPM's, and I now realize from your excellent description that the combination of a short bracket, along with low mass on the camera end contributed to the vibration problems (along with the camera having mistakenly been set to low res instead of high res - I'm still kickin myself for that one!). We also made a mount for his bike, which yielded similar results for the same reasons, although in his case the camera was set to record video "properly" ... it was just a lower resolution camera than mine.

If I ever use the mount again I'll remember to add weight to the bottom in order to improve the results.

Regards,

I just went and did a little trial fit thought experiment and it is important to get a diagonal arm (45 deg across the bike as shown in the pics) as well (like a camera mounted above the clocks from a mirror mount off the centerline and below the camera).

For example if you mount right off of the triple clamp then the any up and down motion will be transmitted right up through the arm. If the arm is perpendicular to that motion it allows the rubber to flex and the arm moves with respect to the bike but the inertial is actually keep it inertially stable (at least with respect to the nominal bike C.G. motion).

It is the offset that allows the weight operating at the end of the arm to deflect when the up and down motion occurs. With a completely horizontal arm you will not dampen and side to side motion either so 45 degrees to striaght vertical is best. There is not that much fore aft vibration to worry about. If there was you would need another degree of freedome and to a certain extent the handle bar gives that as well as additional vertical isolation.

 

[posplayr]

OK putting my mulla where my mouth is , I order a bunch of really expensive parts from Hong Kong so might take a couple of weeks but should have a pretty nice setup for a camera mount.

I splurged on the travel camera tripod for $0.99 BIN and $0.50 shipping. The cheap ones were $.99 BIN and free shipping.

This design will be a modification of the picture I posted before.

 

[Charlie G]

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Here is the mount I made last weekend to try out on a ride on some new roads. It was mounted to the triple tee as you discribed. There was alot of vibration at high rev and a really poor set up. Will try the handle bar at a diagonal mount system next.


Charlie G


P.S. I'm alittle new at this photobucket thing, hope it works.

 

[Planecrazy]

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Here is the mount I made last weekend to try out on a ride on some new roads. It was mounted to the triple tee as you discribed. There was alot of vibration at high rev and a really poor set up. Will try the handle bar at a diagonal mount system next.


Charlie G


P.S. I'm alittle new at this photobucket thing, hope it works.

Here ya go, Charlie...

There's a little yellow icon above the text box with a mountain range in it... This is the button you click to add a picture. A box will pop up, and you can paste in the address from your photobucket picture to get it to display directly here... By the way, I think you have a screw loose ... Thank goodness for the jar behind the camera mount!

Regards,

 

[Charlie G]

Here ya go, Charlie...

There's a little yellow icon above the text box with a mountain range in it... This is the button you click to add a picture. A box will pop up, and you can paste in the address from your photobucket picture to get it to display directly here... By the way, I think you have a screw loose ... Thank goodness for the jar behind the camera mount!

Regards,

It's hard to hide the plain facts. I think I need a larger container for loose hardware. :-\\\I thought someone might notice. Full of candy.


cg

 

[Colin Green]

I did much the same thing a couple of years ago using the top off a tripod.

As well as fitting my camera I later made up a flat ali plate with threaded hole to stick on my radar detector so I can mount either camera or radar.

I have problems with bounce (flex in the bracket) the camera (Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ5) has 2 stabilization modes which I believe do a lot to reduce the vibration movement but the flimsy bracket and the fact that it's mounted to the tacho (which moves a lot due to old rubber isolation pads) results in the camera bouncing more than vibrating.

 

[tkent02]

There's a little yellow icon above the text box with a mountain range in it... This is the button you click to add a picture. A box will pop up, and you can paste in the address from your photobucket picture to get it to display directly here...

I have never seen this mountain range icon, I've looked, it's not there. I wonder why?

 

[Colin Green]

I have never seen this mountain range icon, I've looked, it's not there. I wonder why?

Hth

 

[tkent02]

I don't get any of those icons at all.

 

[Planecrazy]

I don't get any of those icons at all.

Wow! That's odd ... even the "quick reply" at the bottom has some of the "core icons," like the picture link, the web link, etc...

You might want to try editing your User CP options and see whether you've selected the "advanced" reply format as your default. I seem to recall that there are several choices available...

Regards,

 

[tkent02]

Wow! That's odd ... even the "quick reply" at the bottom has some of the "core icons," like the picture link, the web link, etc...

You might want to try editing your User CP options and see whether you've selected the "advanced" reply format as your default. I seem to recall that there are several choices available...

Regards,

OK, miscellaneous options, message editor interface, fixed it.
Now I have all those silly faces all o y'all use.

 

[Allie]

Wow pretty neat camera ideas. I didn't even see any of these recent posts until tonight. I get most of what you're saying about arm length and weight, and stuff. Yes my camera is a bit on the porky side .

 

[Planecrazy]

Wow pretty neat camera ideas. I didn't even see any of these recent posts until tonight. I get most of what you're saying about arm length and weight, and stuff. Yes my camera is a bit on the porky side .

In this case that would be an advantage ... More mass means the camera is less affected by vibration!

 

[Planecrazy]

OK, miscellaneous options, message editor interface, fixed it.
Now I have all those silly faces all o y'all use.

Every once in awhile some mindless information logged in my memory becomes useful, hehe! Glad I was able to point you toward the solution!

Regards,

 

[posplayr]

Wow pretty neat camera ideas. I didn't even see any of these recent posts until tonight. I get most of what you're saying about arm length and weight, and stuff. Yes my camera is a bit on the porky side .

My internet is down so I'm texting (chek out my camera mint thread

 

[Flaming Chainsaws]

I made this camera mount. My new cafe fairing has a nice flat spot right behind the windshield. I thought that was a good spot for the camera to be.

I drilled a hole on that flat spot.

And this bolt, screws onto the camera but the screw was too long. That plastic piece is threaded so I can use that to tighten it up more, securing the camera to the fairing.

I don't have a picture of the camera mounted. I only have one camera

I'll try it out and post it on youtube tomorrow.

 

[Detroit Diesel Man]

That is really cool!..love the video!

 

[Rick65Cat]

Heres a mount I made up for my camera on my first `78 GS1000...about 30 years ago.
Bits of 2X4, plumbers strapping, carpet underlay..for my super8 movie camera.
Squeezed the trigger, engaged the trigger lock and activated the camera with a remote on/off switch taped to the handlebar.
Ahhhh...such is technology eh?

 

[Planecrazy]

Love it, Rick! Do you still have the film you took? That would be fun to see!

Regards,

 

[Allie]

Heres a mount I made up for my camera on my first `78 GS1000...about 30 years ago.
Bits of 2X4, plumbers strapping, carpet underlay..for my super8 movie camera.
Squeezed the trigger, engaged the trigger lock and activated the camera with a remote on/off switch taped to the handlebar.
Ahhhh...such is technology eh?

I love it!! Wow you're a You Toober from WAY back lolololol.