Different camera mounts on your bike

[jbalat]

Hi just experimenting with different gopro mounts to get some video footage while Im on my ebike.

Let me know if you have any ideas on mounts or eliminating some of these vibrations. I would like to get a 3D printer and knock together a mounting kit

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[ddk]

...baring a bike with excellent suspension, head-mounted cameras works pretty good

helmet cam
hat cam
headband cam

-because your body likes to keep your head fairly stable.
-also- My most recent cheap camera has electronic stabilization that works ok...

caveat: I know nothing about gopro cameras. I've never used one.

 

[dogman dan]

My favorite mount was a pvc pipe on the bottom of my frame mounted battery box. In effect, sticking out 90 degrees from the downtube.

This gave me a low forward view, with the tire and fork in the corner of the shot. Sort of cool to watch the shock work. Head mount cam is just too high, and loses much of the feeling of speed.

Another one I liked for paved riding was right atop the front tire. Again, much more feeling of speed in the shot mounted low, and the full lean.

Handle bar mount is OK, but I liked the vids shot from lower. Hyena did some cool vids from outboard the rear tire, mounted low on a pole sticking out.

 

[adrian_sm]

http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42723&p=624395

 

[jbalat]

dogman, do you have any pics or video ?

adrian, nice mount.. Keep the ideas coming..

In the meantime someone recommended this head mount which I think is also quite cool !!
http://youtu.be/iEvQasLGkiA

 

[adrian_sm]

Cool angle, but you wouldn't want to catch it on anything. It could do some real damage to your neck. Better to have something that will break free if something goes wrong.

 

[Drunkskunk]

I've tried a few fun ones. On the bottom of the front fork. On the seatpost aimed at the suspension and back wheel. on the handlebars aimed at the suspension. In the spokes, Aimed out as the world flips by.

On the helmet is nice and smooth, but the higher the camera, the slower everything seems. And shots that don't show atleast some of the bike can get boring fast.

I'd show examples, but right now if I try to edit the video from the gopro to upload to youtube, it comes out so grainy and low resolution that I can't always tell what I'm looking at.