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With our Canadian bike tour looming large - four weeks today we fly out to Vancouver (volcanoes permitting! ) and pick up the hire bikes 2 days after. We thought we'd best get cracking on sorting the mounting arrangements for the vids we hope to shoot along the way.
We picked up two cheap sucker mounts, which worked out better than we thought they would. Things got a bit shakey when we mounted one of them on the Harley - it couldn't cope with the vibes - but it was fine on my son's Honda SP1 - also a big twin but Honda make bikes for girls so they install a counter balance shaft
. The bikes we're hiring in Cananda won't vibe anywhere near the amount our bikes do so we should be ok to use the mounts for our trip.
3 cams are used in this vid: the Contour 1080p HD, A Canon A650 which is actually a stills cam that shoots very passable vids (heavy tho') - and an Oregon Scientific ATK5, which due to the poor results it produces we probably won't be taking take with us - it's used about 2/3rds into this vid and as can be seen it no way compares to the quality of the other 2 cams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6UymuXfA40
The vid was very hurredly edited together last night in about half an hour - promise we'll do a better job on the Canada ones! The sucker mounts have increased our filming options though but we neeed to sort something for rearward facing - that'll be next weeks little project
We picked up two cheap sucker mounts, which worked out better than we thought they would. Things got a bit shakey when we mounted one of them on the Harley - it couldn't cope with the vibes - but it was fine on my son's Honda SP1 - also a big twin but Honda make bikes for girls so they install a counter balance shaft
. The bikes we're hiring in Cananda won't vibe anywhere near the amount our bikes do so we should be ok to use the mounts for our trip. 3 cams are used in this vid: the Contour 1080p HD, A Canon A650 which is actually a stills cam that shoots very passable vids (heavy tho') - and an Oregon Scientific ATK5, which due to the poor results it produces we probably won't be taking take with us - it's used about 2/3rds into this vid and as can be seen it no way compares to the quality of the other 2 cams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6UymuXfA40
The vid was very hurredly edited together last night in about half an hour - promise we'll do a better job on the Canada ones! The sucker mounts have increased our filming options though but we neeed to sort something for rearward facing - that'll be next weeks little project
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Hey TDT, Seattle is on my list of places to see before I die, I'm told it's a lovely old city - I watch Frasier ya know! 
Unfortunately this trip is going to be a hectic one and we won't have time. We'll be meeting up with some friends for the first two days, then riding for 8 days, then we're going to do some sea kayaking off Bowen Island, a seaplane ride from Coal Harbour, the boy wants to do the Seawall walk in Vancouver and see some of the city, plus take a run up to the top of Grouse Mountain - all that and we've got to hang out with the daughter who lives in Vancouver as well. It's all going to eat into a 2 week trip. Next time I'm there with my missus, we'll definitley be doing Seattle though.
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Unfortunately this trip is going to be a hectic one and we won't have time. We'll be meeting up with some friends for the first two days, then riding for 8 days, then we're going to do some sea kayaking off Bowen Island, a seaplane ride from Coal Harbour, the boy wants to do the Seawall walk in Vancouver and see some of the city, plus take a run up to the top of Grouse Mountain - all that and we've got to hang out with the daughter who lives in Vancouver as well. It's all going to eat into a 2 week trip. Next time I'm there with my missus, we'll definitley be doing Seattle though. Derv
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Hi BD, We were going to rent a couple of Harleys from the Harely dealers in Vancouver but despite several e.mails they never responded. We ended up at the only place we could find there that rents bikes which is Ride BC on East 6th. so far they've been really helpful. unfortunately the only Harleys they rent are Road Kings and I really don't fancy lugging one of those around for 8 days.
I've ended up renting a little Honda Shadow and my son is having a Honda VFR800 - the Interceptor to you guys over there. I need quite a low & light bike these days as I suffer with my joints, and my boy loves the VFR, I had one up until last year and he used to borrow it a lot.
Hey Rene' thanks. Going off subject for a minute, that Derby cover you sent me the link for was take off e.bay the day before the auction ended. I guess he must have been made an offer he couldn't refuse by someone. Have great weekend - hope you manage to get out on the bike.
Derv
I've ended up renting a little Honda Shadow and my son is having a Honda VFR800 - the Interceptor to you guys over there. I need quite a low & light bike these days as I suffer with my joints, and my boy loves the VFR, I had one up until last year and he used to borrow it a lot.
Hey Rene' thanks. Going off subject for a minute, that Derby cover you sent me the link for was take off e.bay the day before the auction ended. I guess he must have been made an offer he couldn't refuse by someone. Have great weekend - hope you manage to get out on the bike.
Derv
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