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3 strips of masking tape to help dampen the wind noise while riding.

12" bungee fed from inside the helmet to make a loop to hold the camera, then hooked onto itself on either side of the camera to make it snug.

Good serious pose

nah. it's a good "precaffeinated, about to look like a total dork in public, and I hope it's worth it" pose :-)

strapped a Flip Ultra video camera to record the morning commute. It was a bit awkward - aimed slightly to the right, and making the helmet lopsided - but the video turned out to be not completely unwatchable...

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rob.wall says:

Looking kind of Cylon. It works on you (especially with the cool shades).
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

ppival says:

Yup, that looks pretty dorky! :-) Maybe next time attach it to your chest using a bungee - more centred that way!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

D'Arcy Norman says:

I was going to try attaching it directly to the bike, like I did with my still camera last year, but decided the vibration would be too much. Figured it might be cool to try tracking head movements - I wonder how well a chestcam would aim? even on the helmet, the camera wasn't aimed properly - too far to the right...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

melodramababs says:

or. to really screw with our minds, a backcam. then you can see if anyone is making gestures at you while you bike down the road. or how close they come before switching lanes.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

tuchodi says:

Can't wait for the feature film.

How is the flip and how well does it play with your mac? I was/am thinking about getting one, but the video on my small Canon still cam seems to be pretty good with about the same specs as the Flip.

ps- you have moved one step deeper into dorkdom LOL
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

D'Arcy Norman says:

@babs I really need about 4 cameras - one on the helmet (forward), one on helmet (rear), one mounted to record speedometer, one on lower fork to record road... maybe a fifth camera on a boom from the helmet to record the awesome grimaces and nasty huffpuffing too :-)

@tuchodi the flip works pretty darned well, once I installed Perian. It just shows up as a USB hard drive, and the .avi files can be copied directly from the Finder if i don't want to use the Flip software. The video quality isn't that bad - definitely NOT HD video, but better than nothing. And because it's so cheap, I'll try stupid stuff like strapping it to my helmet, which I would never do with a better video camera :-)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

djking says:

Freaking wonderful!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

chrisgarrett says:

You are such a geek - respect is due :)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

roland says:

gotta watch that video
flip is obsolete, use an N95 with qik :-) !
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

D'Arcy Norman says:

@roland dunno - I'd have been leery tacking a fancy schmancy videophone to my helmet, but a cheap Flip? That's almost disposable. I'll be trying lots of crazy stuff with it that I wouldn't dare with anything more expensive :-)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

roland says:

i understand d'arcy, i'm lucky enough to get the expensive phones for free from nokia blogger relations, the flip ain't cheap tho, right, it's about $200 including taxes right?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

D'Arcy Norman says:

IIRC, my Flip was $150 at Wal*Mart. Enough that I'd wince if I dropped it, but not enough to prevent me from doing crazy stuff like bungee cording it to my helmet and riding at 50km/h :-)

If Nokia feels like sending me some hardware to play with, I'd be willing to strap it to my bike too!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

edison clickr says:

Awesome and compelling. I almost watched the whole ride in. Makes me want to be a better man...

Fluffy
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

D'Arcy Norman says:

I don't think I watched the whole thing while it was being recorded :-)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

CFBSr says:

Do the Calgary police know about this? :-)
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

D'Arcy Norman says:

@Carl the Calgary Police have enough other problems with online video that they'll probably give this one a pass...
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

ghostbore says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called SD or flash memory Camcorders, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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