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Spiffness posted:And both beemers broke their frames I thought losing either a frame or a swingarm would be a proper write-off, I'll need to watch this at some point.
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I want my 47 seconds back.
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I think my favorite part is how the weird flaky cameraman breaks his bike and has to buy a rickety little IZH 2-stroke, which then proves to be way more capable and just bounces happily along in the Mongolian steppes or whatever while the heavily loaded BMWs are constantly getting stuck in the mud.
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Nope, just get it rewelded by some random guy in a open air market and then destroy the abs system because you didnt disconnect the battery!
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Jan 12, 2013 21:04
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I liked Long Way Round and thought Charley was the best part. 
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Stugazi posted:I liked Long Way Round and thought Charley was the best part. Ya, at least he didn't get gasoline in his eyes every time they stopped to refuel. WTF.
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Jan 12, 2013 21:44
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I always fuel with my visor shut just because of Ewan. Fat white guy doing a stoppie in front of a black guy flashing gang signs.
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Sagebrush posted:I think my favorite part is how the weird flaky cameraman breaks his bike and has to buy a rickety little IZH 2-stroke, which then proves to be way more capable and just bounces happily along in the Mongolian steppes or whatever while the heavily loaded BMWs are constantly getting stuck in the mud. That camera dude was the best part of lwr, for sure. I might have to rewatch it just for that dude alone. But then I have to listen to charlie again. Ugh, forget it. Z3n posted:Nope, just get it rewelded by some random guy in a open air market and then destroy the abs system because you didnt disconnect the battery! I'm loving amazed they didn't have a new beemer airtlifted in. They had the funds for it, anyway.
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hayden. posted:I always fuel with my visor shut just because of Ewan. Me too, actually. One of my riding neurosis. I'd forgotten where it came from until you said that. Meanwhile: The internet and gopros are awesome. I was poking thru maps looking for roads to hit up this year in Daniel Boone Forest and I went to youtube to search for some. The first one pulls up some alright video of a cruiser plopping along, it looked pretty good. The second one came up with this video, a guy on a VFR doing a decent pace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pa3ld-Aigg Don't expect anything amazing out of the video, it's just a dude riding a road, but it's still amazing to me that I can do all of this on a computer. Find a road and see it run at a decent pace with about 15 minutes of effort.
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nsaP posted:Me too, actually. One of my riding neurosis. I'd forgotten where it came from until you said that. I just tested this theory by searching on youtube for a country road very dear to my heart about 20km out of town and, sure enough, someone has repeatedly ridden it with a gopro. I don't feel special anymore 
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Backov posted:Ya, at least he didn't get gasoline in his eyes every time they stopped to refuel. WTF. I take my helmet off, and recently dropped my wee facewarmer thing on the petrol station ground. Now if I take a deep breath in it I get the smell of petrol, it's glorious! and almost certainly causing brain damage.
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Slavvy posted:I just tested this theory by searching on youtube for a country road very dear to my heart about 20km out of town and, sure enough, someone has repeatedly ridden it with a gopro. I don't feel special anymore It's happy, not sad! Happy that people enjoy the same roads you do, and encouragement for you to find some roads that aren't on youtube yet.  I've been recording some roads around where I live and putting them up. Some of them already have videos and some of them are small, but who knows? That one guy on 587 was probably putting the video up for shits and giggles and I ended up benefiting from it. I'm no Ewan McGregor but if one person appreciates it the same way it's worth it to me, go youtube.
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nsaP posted:I'm no Ewan McGregor but if one person appreciates it the same way it's worth it to me, go youtube. Long Way to 7-11, with nsaP
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Haha speaking of long way to 7-11 where did that one guy go with the motovlog where he went and got taahhhhhccooos? Content:
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Are you thinking of Wrong Way Round? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xorQyl121I
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There's also Dumb Way Round, where two insane norwegians went around the world on 70-year old Danish sidecar motorcycles. Also known as The King Croesus Contempt for Death trip 2009   Click for link Crazy crazy people. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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Here, have an idiot going way too quick for the conditions and road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSLe7z-5Fg
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M42 posted:At least he knows what he did wrong, unlike that complete idiot posted a while back who ate poo poo and is refusing to change any of his lovely habits because "I ride fast and will continue doing so lol" I love how it looks like a slip-n-slide.
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 yeah, that's, uh...wow. Way too fast for the amount of water on the road. But at the same time, he must have just clamped right down on the brakes or something, because like 1 second after the car comes into view he's already sliding on his hands and knees. Hard to judge distances with the lens distortion, but I bet he could have kept it together with more gentle braking and maybe a (admittedly dangerous) swerve into the opposite lane.e: his gloves stood up to that amazingly well. I guess rain making the roads slippery has at least one advantage? Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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Didn't that other idiot say something along the lines of "I live how I ride, bro: FAST" or some Vin Diesel-esque nonsense? Here's some stuff from my shop about a month ago:  '31 Matchless X with Brough Superior sidecar    
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red19fire posted:Didn't that other idiot say something along the lines of "I live how I ride, bro: FAST" or some Vin Diesel-esque nonsense? Said this dumb poo poo: "12-7-10 till 11-24-12 Almost two years old. Hit the ditch, shot across two lanes, a car turn out and down a 35+ foot cliff. This is how I ride. Fast. Been doing it for a long time and never crashed. This was my first crash ever. Please don't give me poo poo." 
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M42 posted:Said this dumb poo poo: "12-7-10 till 11-24-12 Almost two years old. Hit the ditch, shot across two lanes, a car turn out and down a 35+ foot cliff. This is how I ride. Fast. Been doing it for a long time and never crashed. This was my first crash ever. Please don't give me poo poo." Hey, he lives his life a quarter mile at a time, don't give him poo poo!
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:He did ask nicely not to give him poo poo, though Mootmoot should have taken that course of action.
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Cross post from Dirt riders thread. Last weekend crash/fall over compilation. First loop through was fine. This was second loop through wtf. Bob's fall(blue yamaha 230) was caused due to him hitting barb wire. Glad it didn't wrap up in his front wheel. His second fall right after that though was all his fault, trying to straighten his front wheel and whoops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vGX5rXUE-8
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Sagebrush posted:Is there something wrong with your camera? It seems to be skipping and jerking quite a lot. I'd expect that from one of the little cheapy chinese keychain cameras but you say it's a GoPro? Weird. Sorry it's the very first go pro they made, so it sucks. Hoping to upgrade soon to a Hero3 either Black or Silver. Especially because using double A batteries on this one gives me about 30 min record time. 
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Here4DaGangBang posted:Oh god, my eyes. If that video came from GoPros then something is very wrong somewhere. Still better than the first gen Contours, if you can believe it That guys gloves held up extremely well. Silly crash though. Even at those speeds he had lots of options for braking properly or swerve avoidance.
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Silver posted:Sorry it's the very first go pro they made, so it sucks. Hoping to upgrade soon to a Hero3 either Black or Silver. Especially because using double A batteries on this one gives me about 30 min record time. Wow, you were quite the early adopter. I didn't even know they made one that took AAA batteries. Looked it up, and did you know their first camera shot on 35mm film? I didn't. Definitely get a hero3! I am quite happy with mine. Here's a shot from the other day, screen capture from the video, no editing or sharpening or anything other than scaling down 50%:  Battery life still sucks though. With the internal unit you're only going to get 60 to 90 minutes of filming, though you can get the little external bacpak that doubles it.
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Sagebrush posted:Battery life still sucks though. With the internal unit you're only going to get 60 to 90 minutes of filming, though you can get the little external bacpak that doubles it. Here is what I did, quite simple: Assuming you have a battery tender lead on your bike (or you can order ones that go straight to the battery), buy a tender to USB tether. String that where you attach your go pro. Drill out, or get the go-pro case where the sides are exposed. Run the GoPro tethered to the bike via USB cable so it is always charging = Basically unlimited video recording. I also ran microphones on my track bike that went back to my go-pros so I could record sound from different locations on the bike, packed in some foam I found from work. This solved me running out of juice on track days, and worked brilliantly. If you do any regular recording, I highly recommend it if you mount the camera on the bike anywhere. To your helmet, yeah, just have to be more careful about life. Though I did have days where I'd run on the helmet, drain the battery a bit, then run a bit on the bike to charge it back up. Simple.
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Sagebrush posted:Battery life still sucks though. With the internal unit you're only going to get 60 to 90 minutes of filming, though you can get the little external bacpak that doubles it. Hmm, I just got my hero3 yesterday (finally places have stock in Australia!), looking forward to giving it a go. Got it set up with the iPhone app and had a play around yesterday. Less than 2 hours battery life would be disappointing though, I've become accustomed to getting 2 hours out of my HeroHD and Hero2... What are your settings when you get 60-90 mins? Also is it cold where you are?
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1080p30, a little bit of wi-fi at the beginning, about 7-10 degrees celsius plus the camera is stuck out in the wind at 50-100km/h. It's quite chilly when I take it out of the case. The battery life seems to be improving, if anything, so maybe the thing calibrates itself after you take it out of the box? I've only gone through four or five full discharges. Apparently low battery life is just a thing with these cameras though, based on what I've read.
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Sagebrush posted:1080p30, a little bit of wi-fi at the beginning, about 7-10 degrees celsius plus the camera is stuck out in the wind at 50-100km/h. It's quite chilly when I take it out of the case. Batteries need to be cycled a handful of times before they reach their full capacity so that's not too strange. If the camera is quite cold when you take it out of the case then that could also be hampering battery life as batteries work better when warm. Hopefully short battery life is only a thing because the camera was launched in the colder months of the year in the US and not many people have experienced any different with it yet. Though on the Hero2 they added a battery warmer to the feature list (AKA using the heat from the sensor to keep the battery warm I think) so I wonder if that part of the design has been retained...
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M42 posted:Said this dumb poo poo: "12-7-10 till 11-24-12 Almost two years old. Hit the ditch, shot across two lanes, a car turn out and down a 35+ foot cliff. This is how I ride. Fast. Been doing it for a long time and never crashed. This was my first crash ever. Please don't give me poo poo." Went looking for the video and it's private - did anyone get a copy of it?
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Wootcannon posted:Went looking for the video and it's private - did anyone get a copy of it? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f48_1354735527 Ugh gently caress phones
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Silver posted:Sorry it's the very first go pro they made, so it sucks. Hoping to upgrade soon to a Hero3 either Black or Silver. Especially because using double A batteries on this one gives me about 30 min record time.
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Internet Meme posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f48_1354735527 Did this guy just sort of not bother judging how sharp the corner was, then understeer into the ditch? Or is the camera making it seem that way.
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