Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => Photos & Videos => Topic started by: keeptwostrokesalive on September 20, 2010, 02:43:57 PM
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RC and CR battling on two strokes at daytona supercross in 2005. This made me drool with excitement. :P ;D
Carmichael / Reed battle Daytona SX (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0kih7ptLE#)
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Man, that would've been good with one of the modern HD cameras. It's unbelievable how far helmet cams have advanced. During the period I was saving up for one, I witnessed the resolution double and the price cut in half, at the same time!
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No, No, No, THIS is the best Helmate Camera EVA! It's at about 1:25 into the interview.
1984 mark banks interview///chuck sun supercross footage with helmet cam///motocross (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK3NEUnjinI#noexternalembed)
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No, No, No, THIS is the best Helmate Camera EVA! It's at about 1:25 into the interview.
1984 mark banks interview///chuck sun supercross footage with helmet cam///motocross (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK3NEUnjinI#noexternalembed)
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Where can i buy a camera like Chuck's :P
I don't think you would notice the weight off it :o :D
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that's it, I'm growing a cool mustache like chuck
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Super Hunky said one time way back in the day someone got him to put on a big helmet camera like that. Here's what he wrote about the incident.
About 20 years ago, I strapped on a helmet cam and took a lap around a motocross course for a local TV station. The thing was about the size of a loaf of bread and weighed about eight pounds. Plus, I had to carry another six pounds of batteries and hardware in a belt-pack.
For a half lap, the helmet cam didn't bother me much, even though I was sure aware of the big lump strapped to the side of my helmet. It was when I launched off the biggest jump on the track and hit the landing that the side effects of the helmet cam became instantly known.
Figure that camera weighed about eight pounds, and when I landed from the jump on flat ground, I'm sure I pulled two "Gs" worth of impact. That meant â?¦ for a fraction of a second â?¦ the helmet cam weighed over 20 pounds.
My neck got badly tweaked to the side and the helmet camera whacked on the top the shoulder caps of my chest protector. I wobbled off the track like a wounded duck and nearly crashed my brains out.
I rode the last part of the track rather slowly and when I got back to the pits, had the TV people take the blasted thing off. For most of the next week, I had a badly strained neck and a headache.
The video? It was OK, at best. However, there was a lot of shuddering and it seemed like every bump and rut was transferred right to the lens. It was really hard to see what I was really going over, as the immediate horizon shook and vibrated badly. When I hit a big bump or rut, the tape skipped badly, or froze for a moment.
Rick then goes onto review a helmet camera that plugs into your ordinary camcorder that you carry in a fanny pack. The review was written in 2002 and it's far out of date for today, but you can read it anyway. This is what initially convinced me that I needed a helmet camera.
http://articles.superhunky.com/4/45 (http://articles.superhunky.com/4/45)