Saturday, January 17, 2015

Saturday FAIL: GoPro Mount Unliked

Today's Short Tracking via Ham Radio and GPS/APRS

I've worked the last couple of days on 2 things involving the bike OTHER than riding it:
-Built a mounting bar in the tow trailer to hold the bike upright when loaded so it doesn't just lie on its side and flop around bouncing down our road.
I'll post a couple of photos in the next day or so.
-Used a 3 foot piece of 1/2" PVC pipe to make a bicycle mount for the new GoPro video camera.
I took this stuff for a test ride this evening, having put off going to the Post Office all day so I could use it for an excuse to ride the bike as well as test out the new stuff.
The trailer bike bracket now works, after several additional mods, but the GoPro mount has something horribly wrong with it.
The camera works fabulously, as usual, but the pipe bracket holding it sets up some sort of rocking CLACKING sound that just drives me nuts watching and listening to the playback.  I didn't notice the racket while riding, but it's so prominent in the recorded video that I just deleted it and will publish "Film at 11" when I get it working better.  Love the camera;  amazing video.  Just struggling to set up a usable mount.

The ride to the P.O. was the usual, except for lots of gravel and salt on the road shoulder which makes for dicey riding when cars pass by and I'm forced to stay in the grit and gravel there.  The so-called bike/walker path, of course, being on the south side of the road and receiving less sun than the north, where there IS no bike path, still has all kinds of ice and snow in the shady spots and thus is difficult if not impassible for a bike.
Temperatures were not too cold:  I had to peel off the windbreaker going westward, uphill, toward the Post Office, but I put that layer back on for the mostly downhill trip back where the increased speed results in decreased temperatures.

Ride Started: 3:35 PM    Ride Ended:  4:46 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.8   Ending Voltage: 12.7  Lowest: 12.7
Lowest Temp  50 F      Highest Temp:  60 F 
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  6.60
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  5.7 MPH                                  8.7 MPH                    26.6 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
 1 hour 10 mins                      45 minutes                 24  minutes

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