Christmas Day ride in the not so frozen 'nort

[DanTheMan]

I just had to ride on Christmas Day, it was over 40*F, and it's not often up here in the mostly frozen 'nort that I can ride my motorcycle on Christmas Day. I was trying out my new video camera, so bear with the poor quality please. This is a short clip up to my first stop for the riding game thread. I'm going to post the whole 35 minutes later when I get it downloaded to Photobucket. I was having trouble with UTube so I'm doing Photobucket.
It was a fun ride, short, but fun of course.
http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e280/CJ-6/videos/?action=view&current=VID00387.mp4
This short cut takes you to an 8 min clip.

 

[Charlie G]

Dan,

Thanks for posting.

cg

 

[bonanzadave]

So thats what "up-nort" looks like .

Does yer new camera have a stabilization setting ? I was getting a bit nauseous with the jitters. Try mounting it to your body. It will dampen the bumps. Heres mine with a cheap $80 camera ducked taped to my helmet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9fvC1459IM

 

[BassCliff]

Hi Dan,

Thanks a nice ride, very little traffic and beautiful country. I also like the way your camera's frame moves at different rates in different areas. I looks like the clouds are dancing above you when you ride.

The vibrations on my handlebars do weird things to my camera when I mount it there. The image sensor doesn't know how to handle the image with all the vibration. It seems to be worse when I turn on image stabilization.

Thanks for sharing!

It's been in the 70s here and I haven't ridden for almost a week. I think I'll get out tomorrow.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[MiloBramble]

Man I got cold just watching that...thanks for posting, enjoyed.

 

[Hornswaggle]

Sure looks like a fun ride Dan! I can't believe how warm it's been for this time of year. I was in the Brainerd area over Christmas and we normally go ice fishing and snowmobiling but with no snow and thin ice that didn't happen.

 

[DanTheMan]

So thats what "up-nort" looks like .

Does yer new camera have a stabilization setting ? I was getting a bit nauseous with the jitters. Try mounting it to your body. It will dampen the bumps. Heres mine with a cheap $80 camera ducked taped to my helmet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9fvC1459IM

No, my very cheap ($20) camera doesn't have any of those features. Besides, I did a quick mount job, I've got a very small tripod that I carry with me, and it comes with an extendable arm for self portraits. I bungeed that to my fairing (look at my riding game tag for the rental center). I'm going to make a proper mount later.

Hi Dan,

Thanks a nice ride, very little traffic and beautiful country. I also like the way your camera's frame moves at different rates in different areas. I looks like the clouds are dancing above you when you ride.

The vibrations on my handlebars do weird things to my camera when I mount it there. The image sensor doesn't know how to handle the image with all the vibration. It seems to be worse when I turn on image stabilization.

Thanks for sharing!

It's been in the 70s here and I haven't ridden for almost a week. I think I'll get out tomorrow.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

Ride, Cliff, Ride! I'm posting another 2 short clips today of a twistier part and my ride home. My 'puter, photobucket and probably the software for this camera are at odds and I'm trying to make them all work together better.

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e280/CJ-6/videos/?action=view&current=MoreChristmasride2011.mp4

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e280/CJ-6/videos/?action=view&current=Headinghomenow122511.mp4
One of these days I'll remember how to do an embedded video shortcut.

 

[gs scott]

Hi Dan,
Thanks for sharing - nice Christmas Day ride. Don't get to say that too often.

 

[DanTheMan]

Thanks Scott. It doesn't look I'll be riding anytime soon now, I plowed snow in my driveway today.