Speaking of camera, I’ve put in a request to GoPro for a better mount for bikes.
Problem 1: Riding on the streets (not trails) of PDX, and I’ve got the thing rotating on all 3 of its axes (axis plural). Albiet, my camera is using the battery backpack (read: heavier), but that shouldn’t be an issue with such a system. I’ve got some wonderfull images of the sky and the ground after hitting bumps
Problem 2: I’m using the camera to document my commutes, but I have to leave my bike outside locked to the rack. This means that I need to remove my accessories (which takes a while), the thumbscrews are not the fastest method of attaching/removing the camera.
I sent them a description of a new quick releasing bike mount that should solve both problems. Let’s hope.
I carry a short philips screwdriver to take care of tightening it on the bike and even taking it off. It’s not the best system to mount it on the bike, but it works. Use the helmet mount if the bike mount is not fast enough. I use a padlock as a counter weight on the back of my helmet, I try and mount the camera as far forward so it is needed.
There is a little inprovement someone had on Kickstarter I while back. Pricey, but really cool. Check out Unruly.
I mount two GoPros on my bike, one fore and one aft. The rear I mount with velcro to an old adapted reflector. If just going into a shop I leave the case mounted and just remove the cameras. To be honest it only takes a few moments to remove the cases too.
The only improvement I’d like to see to the mounts is hinge pieces milled from aluminium instead of that cr@ppy plastic they use as I have had many break.
I needed your GoPro yesterday on the way home from work. I was approaching Lombard near the south end and a BMX bike went by going the wrong way in the northbound bike lane. He was sitting on the handlebars and riding backwards! As it happens, Darwin did not make an award while I was there…..
Apologies for the commenting system. We chose poorly. However, we will be making a change this Summer to a new one, as the company that created the software is no longer supporting it (big surprise). We will likely be migrating to a WordPress website. The big challenge will be moving four and a half years of existing comments to the new site.
@Rick Smith: Good luck with the move. And please be 100% certain you have a useable backup of the comment archive before you switch over. I’d hate to see all of the bon mots disappear down a digital rat hole.
That’s a good point as many of the comments have helpful answers to posted problems. That has been a godsend for me at least and others I am sure. Being unable to direct anyone to a particularly helpful comment (or even looking it up for myself) could be a real loss to cycling. As in Sheldon’s case, at least that site is still open!
While this one is, I am sure that some will be glad to pay their subsctiption to get an answer to a difficult problem…
Thanks Rick for explaining – and good loock with that movement.
BTW: what I miss with the books: There’s no way to find out, when a strip was published to the web. There was a better solution to that in the old edition of year 2009 in 2 volumes. Maybe you can change that for the next year’s books?
I thought the point of the books is the search as leafing through the books to find a particular strip will bring us joy as we uncover old favourites and stuff we have forgotten about? (Or, in my case, everything
Let’s see ….. since most photography today is digital, one could stockpile a few digital images of Fred and, um, “retouch” various bike photos on the web. Ohhhhh, could I have fun with this!!!
This one is a classic. Love the idea “light bulb” over Yehuda’s head. Ricksterrrider, no you’re not sorry about the ghostwriter comment. Only wish I had beat you to it. Cheers to all.
I still say Fred and Joe are related. Look at the nose; look at the way the hair curls over the ear to create the sideburn; look at the similar cleft in the chin; look at the male pattern baldness — granted, Fred’s is a little more severe, but he’s also older so it is to be expected.
Whether it was originally intended or not I think the similarity is too apparent to be ignored. Rick, maybe this will give you some sort of idea, and you can work this into a story arc somehow?
Problem with the camera? Must be the Ghost in the Machine…
Speaking of camera, I’ve put in a request to GoPro for a better mount for bikes.
Problem 1: Riding on the streets (not trails) of PDX, and I’ve got the thing rotating on all 3 of its axes (axis plural). Albiet, my camera is using the battery backpack (read: heavier), but that shouldn’t be an issue with such a system. I’ve got some wonderfull images of the sky and the ground after hitting bumps
Problem 2: I’m using the camera to document my commutes, but I have to leave my bike outside locked to the rack. This means that I need to remove my accessories (which takes a while), the thumbscrews are not the fastest method of attaching/removing the camera.
I sent them a description of a new quick releasing bike mount that should solve both problems. Let’s hope.
I carry a short philips screwdriver to take care of tightening it on the bike and even taking it off. It’s not the best system to mount it on the bike, but it works. Use the helmet mount if the bike mount is not fast enough. I use a padlock as a counter weight on the back of my helmet, I try and mount the camera as far forward so it is needed.
There is a little inprovement someone had on Kickstarter I while back. Pricey, but really cool. Check out Unruly.
I mount two GoPros on my bike, one fore and one aft. The rear I mount with velcro to an old adapted reflector. If just going into a shop I leave the case mounted and just remove the cameras. To be honest it only takes a few moments to remove the cases too.
The only improvement I’d like to see to the mounts is hinge pieces milled from aluminium instead of that cr@ppy plastic they use as I have had many break.
K’Tesh – K-Edge is making some nicer mounts for the GoPro cameras. CNC machined AL brackets and such. Very solid looking.
I just checked GoPro’s web site – looks like they are engineering new mounts from aluminium – patience young Padawan!
I needed your GoPro yesterday on the way home from work. I was approaching Lombard near the south end and a BMX bike went by going the wrong way in the northbound bike lane. He was sitting on the handlebars and riding backwards! As it happens, Darwin did not make an award while I was there…..
If you wear a helmet, wouldn’t a helmet mount be a better option?
Deja Fred..
Even though I’m a subscriber I’m about ready to give up with this site. It won’t upload my avatar and it keeps multiposting my posts.
Apologies for the commenting system. We chose poorly. However, we will be making a change this Summer to a new one, as the company that created the software is no longer supporting it (big surprise). We will likely be migrating to a WordPress website. The big challenge will be moving four and a half years of existing comments to the new site.
Hang in there!
Thanks for the explanation Rick!
Yay! Logging in through the 3rd party login system is becoming increasingly buggy.
Pedal on!
@Rick Smith: Good luck with the move. And please be 100% certain you have a useable backup of the comment archive before you switch over. I’d hate to see all of the bon mots disappear down a digital rat hole.
That’s a good point as many of the comments have helpful answers to posted problems. That has been a godsend for me at least and others I am sure. Being unable to direct anyone to a particularly helpful comment (or even looking it up for myself) could be a real loss to cycling. As in Sheldon’s case, at least that site is still open!
While this one is, I am sure that some will be glad to pay their subsctiption to get an answer to a difficult problem…
Thanks Rick for explaining – and good loock with that movement.
BTW: what I miss with the books: There’s no way to find out, when a strip was published to the web. There was a better solution to that in the old edition of year 2009 in 2 volumes. Maybe you can change that for the next year’s books?
Otherways I really enjoy the books …
I thought the point of the books is the search as leafing through the books to find a particular strip will bring us joy as we uncover old favourites and stuff we have forgotten about? (Or, in my case, everything
Welcome back, Fred!
They shouldn’t have used a ghostwriter… ok, sorry.
Fred a camera hound … who’d a thunk it.
I know, right?
Let’s see ….. since most photography today is digital, one could stockpile a few digital images of Fred and, um, “retouch” various bike photos on the web. Ohhhhh, could I have fun with this!!!
This one is a classic. Love the idea “light bulb” over Yehuda’s head. Ricksterrrider, no you’re not sorry about the ghostwriter comment. Only wish I had beat you to it. Cheers to all.
The last frame is a classic.
Without Fred’s spiritual intervention the chances of a novice adult rider walking out with an appropriate bike are pretty slim.
Besides negating any protection provided by the brain bucket, wouldn’t mounting a camera on the helmet still give you the herky-jerky motion?
I still say Fred and Joe are related. Look at the nose; look at the way the hair curls over the ear to create the sideburn; look at the similar cleft in the chin; look at the male pattern baldness — granted, Fred’s is a little more severe, but he’s also older so it is to be expected.
Whether it was originally intended or not I think the similarity is too apparent to be ignored. Rick, maybe this will give you some sort of idea, and you can work this into a story arc somehow?
You forgot about the monobrow!