I've got a relatively cheap Vivitar equivalent. Made a bracket that goes on the flat spot where the fairing mirrors would go on the left side of the inner fairing. It's just a flat bracket shaped like the flat spot and some 3M automotive double sided tape, and one tiny screw to help the tape. That stuff just flat out sticks. The camera just peers up over the edge of the fairing when mounted.
I only used it a couple of times. Seems to be OK, no vibration to speak of. If I use the waterproof case it is difficult to operate and on a sunny day quite impossible to see what it's doing without stopping and cupping my hand over it to shield the sun. If it's nice I just mount it directly without the housing, easier to see. Plus I can plug in a charger.
I thought I'd use it more, but basically it's just more fun enjoying the ride than futzing with it all the time. Maybe next time I know I'm going down a road worth recording. Glad I went with the less expensive Vivitar, for the price the quality is good enough.
I'm sure there are better ways to mount it, but we were on a trip when I bought it and I didn't have a lot of tools or the opportunity to spend time looking for a better method. I'll edit in a pic when it gets light out.
If you want it, though, hey, go for it. Look around, it turns out that there are quite a few mounting options available.
OK, no screw on the fairing, just the tape, but there's a lot of it! So I guess it's restoreable. I just found a piece of black plastic and used my Victorinox Huntsman II to trim it to shape, and taped the included "helmet mount" to that.
Here is the camera. It was only like sixty bucks plus an SD card.
I've got a GoPro 3 mounted on both trikes. I use a Ram mount with the long arm. I also drilled the waterproof case and ran a power cord right to the unit. With a 32 gig card in the camera I can record over 4 hours 740. I got second waterproof cases for the cameras when I mount them to the SeaDoos. VERY happy with the units.
I'm not rich, my next door neighbor's son-in-law is Nick Woodman, who owns GoPro. I get my cameras and goodies free.
All of these videos and stills were taken with the handlebar mounted GoPros. Some on my Dyna, Ultra, and then the Tri-Glide, and now the Freewheeler. I had an old Samsung Galaxy phone velcro'd to the dash for a while. You can get free software for the phone that WiFi's to the camera and acts like a view finder, shutter and menu for the camera. When I got the III cameras they came with a remote that I use now. I believe you can get a GoPro for under 2 hundred bucks now a days. Good Luck and publish those pictures!!
Yes, the Session http://shop.gopro.com/hero4/hero4-se...CHDHS-101.html
I have one and love it. Went with a package deal remote and camera. Just waiting to get Trike out of storage to use it more. I am going to place it on the left side of fairing, on top of the speaker. Not as good of video as the GoPro 3 some say, but from what I am going to be using it for, picture is great. Also have to like the small size and that it is waterproof.
So now I have my Go Pro Session mounted, and have used a few times, I can say I love it. I used the curved slide / lock mount on the batwing just over the speaker. No vibrations except if you are at idle without hands on bars. I catch just a bit of the fairing in the lower right corner, but not objectionable. I could have eliminated that with my other mount but did not like it standing out front of the wind screen. I also like that in this location I can leave plugged in as the battery life with remote is short.
03-31-2016, 05:03 AM
