Coach Thrasher

Bicycle Camera Mount Test

Here's a test clip from a camera mounted on my front fork. I'm riding down Woodside road (84 East) from Skyline to Portola Road, which is a great local decent into Woodside, California. The camera is only taking 10 FPS, but you can make out most of the landmarks on the way down. I was surprised by how much I'm actually leaning the bike over (roughly 38+ degrees). The camera mount is a piece of 6061 aluminum bent into an L-bracket and drilled to fit under the Q/R skewer bolt of my front wheel (which you can clearly see spinning). The camera is a Aiptek SD camera with AAA batteries and a 1GB SD card, taking AVI at 10 fps, with no sound. There's no dampening from the wheel to the camera, so you can see the road vibrations in the image quality. I've got a bolt through the tripod mounting hole to hold the camera in place, along with some rubber bands to keep it from rotating. The assembly weighs about 1/4 lb.

Here are some pictures of the camera mounted on the bike:

Posted at 11:39PM Nov 20, 2006 by jason in Cycling  |  Comments[2]