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Vando posted:Don't mount things to your helmet. While a bar mount may end up breaking your phone, a helmet mount may end up breaking your brain. serious gaylord posted:Just get a go pro. Where... where do you put the go-pro, then?
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Unsinkabear posted:Where... where do you put the go-pro, then? On your handlebars
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Not a nice story but it’s why you never mount your only phone to your bike - yesterday morning my dog found a motorcyclist with a broken leg in a ditch who had been there all night after a hit and run. He’d gone one side of the road, his bike the other and his phone was on the bike as a gps, smashed and with no battery left. It was a mild night and they said it was a clean break so he should be fine.
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learnincurve posted:Not a nice story but it’s why you never mount your only phone to your bike - yesterday morning my dog found a motorcyclist with a broken leg in a ditch who had been there all night after a hit and run. He’d gone one side of the road, his bike the other and his phone was on the bike as a gps, smashed and with no battery left. A sobering reminder that your phone is your lifeline. Keep it safe, keep it charged, don't mount it places that it could get trashed or lost in an accident (bars, helmet, etc). Relatedly, why bike computers are good for longer rides vs phones. Doesn't drain the battery on your emergency contact device.
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Sab0921 posted:On your handlebars Doesn't it get a ton of bounce and steering wobble (I guess that part is more for trails than roads) that way?
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Guinness posted:A sobering reminder that your phone is your lifeline. Keep it safe, keep it charged, don't mount it places that it could get trashed or lost in an accident (bars, helmet, etc). In the moto accessory realm there's dedicated crash detection devices(spot, garmin, etc) and comms systems that can detect crashes. Smart watches also feature crash detection. Secondly don't mount a thousand dollar plus device to your bars. It was a known thing in SF with randos that'd grab a phone off of its mount and run.
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May 16, 2021 19:22
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Unsinkabear posted:Doesn't it get a ton of bounce and steering wobble (I guess that part is more for trails than roads) that way? Newer gopros do image stabilization on board, I think. You could also get a chest mount if you're a pro YouTuber.
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May 16, 2021 19:23
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learnincurve posted:Not a nice story but it’s why you never mount your only phone to your bike - yesterday morning my dog found a motorcyclist with a broken leg in a ditch who had been there all night after a hit and run. He’d gone one side of the road, his bike the other and his phone was on the bike as a gps, smashed and with no battery left. holy gently caress Unsinkabear posted:Doesn't it get a ton of bounce and steering wobble (I guess that part is more for trails than roads) that way? Nah, the gopro sorts out all that on board - that's what they're good at.
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Unsinkabear posted:Doesn't it get a ton of bounce and steering wobble (I guess that part is more for trails than roads) that way? nah, it's great and you've even got good dual mounts for your bike computer plus a gopro.
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I’m now surprised that at the very least the higher end MTBs don’t have the option of GoPro mounts inside the head tube. If they can get ebike batteries safely inside the frame then it should be doable.
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Wouldn’t there be a good chance of cables in your shot?
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I was thinking hole for the lens to stick out of and then have the main bulk in the tube, maybe extra large battery as well.
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May 16, 2021 20:05
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learnincurve posted:Not a nice story but it’s why you never mount your only phone to your bike - yesterday morning my dog found a motorcyclist with a broken leg in a ditch who had been there all night after a hit and run. He’d gone one side of the road, his bike the other and his phone was on the bike as a gps, smashed and with no battery left. You should be posting this in the UK thread too (the good uk thread)
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vikingstrike posted:Wouldn’t there be a good chance of cables in your shot? https://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-out-front-gps-computer-with-action-camera-mount
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Thats up and further out than where shes describing in the head tube of the bike? Ive seen those mounts before. Also on a road bike cables are typically neater around the bars the days. Not on a MTB. You still have brake cables normally coming off the front. Maybe it’d work though? One advantage of wearing it on your chest when riding MTB is that if you eat poo poo the camera might fair a little better. vikingstrike fucked around with this message at 21:22 on May 16, 2021 |
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Also with a chest mount you can pretend to be darth vader if your chest pulse sensor was insufficiently dorky
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Lol. “Why is walking so slow now?” minicurve
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    Rode my bike to see my wife, walked to the Sunday market, ate a Gyro, and rode the bike the short way up hill. I think i did ok considering i have never taken the bike up hill.
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learnincurve posted:Some car insurance policies are invalidated by installing a bike rack Circling back to this because both this thread and the car-buying thread seem to be in agreement that hitch racks are the best way to live life, so now I somehow find myself excited to put a hitch on my coupe?  Anyway, the only info I could turn up about insurance policies being invalidated by hitches seems to be UK-specific, so I'm hoping it's a regional thing. Has anyone heard of this happening with providers in the States? E: also I can skip the wiring harness if I'm just using the hitch to haul bikes, right? Could I theoretically add one myself later if I needed it? Because dang, does that add a lot of money to a Uhaul installation. Unsinkabear fucked around with this message at 23:36 on May 16, 2021 |
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This shot has a lowered seat from before, right? How have you been working out the fit?
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Unsinkabear posted:Circling back to this because both this thread and the car-buying thread seem to be in agreement that hitch racks are the best way to live life, so now I somehow find myself excited to put a hitch on my coupe? You don’t need a wiring harness for a hitch rack. You need those for a trailer if you want your cars lights to work with the lights on the trailer.
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Yo, one thing you should know about hitch racks: If your car has that poo poo where if you're about to back up over a kid it beeps like gently caress and then auto brakes, heads up that reversing with a hitch on is going to make it freak the gently caress out. It's almost bad enough that I wish I'd gone with a roof rack.
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bicievino posted:Yo, one thing you should know about hitch racks: You should be able to turn that system off for when you've got a hitch rack attached. I can in my Mazda. Also good times to turn it off are if you are towing, or if its very snowy/icy and the cameras/sensors get all iced over.
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re: camerachat: no-one is going to watch your cycling videos fyi You'll gather GBs of footage which will clog up all your free space for months, you'll eventually produce one 17-minute "edit", and your SO will "watch" it once with glazed eyes 
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Guinness posted:You should be able to turn that system off for when you've got a hitch rack attached. I can in my Mazda. I believe it is possible but I wasn't able to figure it out in my Prius. I'm not good at cars tho.
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Unsinkabear posted:Circling back to this because both this thread and the car-buying thread seem to be in agreement that hitch racks are the best way to live life, so now I somehow find myself excited to put a hitch on my coupe? Is it cheaper to have the wiring harness installed at the same time as the hitch than later? Sooner or later, if you have a car with a hitch you're going to encounter a trailer you want to pull. "All you have is a hammer" etc.
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meltie posted:re: camerachat: no-one is going to watch your cycling videos fyi this is true, pov cycling videos are bad
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Dren posted:this is true, pov cycling videos are bad They will watch it only if you have something bad happen like a spectacular crash. Dash cam rules apply!
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Sab0921 posted:They will watch it only if you have something bad happen like a spectacular crash. Better to have brave and stupid friends that will provide the good content for you.
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resident posted:Better to have brave and stupid friends that will provide the good content for you. Like all of the guys behind this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/ndbdfh/time_for_a_little_drink/
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kimbo305 posted:This shot has a lowered seat from before, right? How have you been working out the fit? Yes
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EvilJoven posted:Its a decent runabout for the money. Don't sacrifice fit for a higher spec. If theres something similar with disc brakes I'd get that over rim brakes, that's my only complaint. For 7 speed it's got some major improvements over the more budget tourney shifter brake combos and the rear derailleur is bulletproof. With the bike shortage you should jump on it if it's the only thing they have in your price range. Samopsa posted:Just ordered my first ''real'' bike after having tons of fun on my budget triban road racer the past two years.
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Dren posted:this is true, pov cycling videos are bad Follow cam friday is actually very good.
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vikingstrike posted:Follow cam friday is actually very good. hadn’t seen those they’re different in that he’s following someone the whole time so the vid is about that other rider, which is way better than pov footage with just whatever track/road is in front of you (super boring). still, footage from other angles is so much better. the pov angle can make even big drops look very boring.
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It looks really low. How bent is your leg at the bottom of the pedal stroke?
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ExecuDork posted:Is it cheaper to have the wiring harness installed at the same time as the hitch than later? Sooner or later, if you have a car with a hitch you're going to encounter a trailer you want to pull. "All you have is a hammer" etc. Good point, and surprisingly, no. Just checked their scheduling tool and it costs the same to install the wiring separately later.
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Dren posted:hadn’t seen those All gopro footage makes trail features look dumb regardless of camera position imo. Even on world cup dh theyll have massively steep sections and it doesnt look “that bad.”
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:It looks really low. How bent is your leg at the bottom of the pedal stroke? Fully extended barefooted, they might bend a little if i have shoes on. I have short legs
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bicievino posted:If your car has that poo poo where if you're about to back up over a kid it beeps like gently caress and then auto brakes, heads up that reversing with a hitch on is going to make it freak the gently caress out. It does not, but it does have a borderline mandatory backup camera that I just realized will probably be covered by the hitch rack
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ElMaligno posted:Fully extended barefooted, they might bend a little if i have shoes on. I have short legs  Turns out i was full of poo poo and underestimated how far my knee bent.
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