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Started 14 years ago by kaputnik
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kaputnik
Moderator

One of these!

Build your own bicycle camera mount

Has anyone tried this? It looks so cheap and simple to do - a couple of bolts, washers and nuts, an old light mount and a digital camera you wouldn't cry over if it got damaged. I know what I'm doing in the garage on Boxing Day.

And of course, the end results would be both fun and productive. On a dry day it could make patrolling the cycleways and byeways of Edinburgh and capturing "evidence" so much easier.

Of course, must be careful not to get distracted by buttons in traffic...

Posted 14 years ago #
chdot
Admin

And when you've done that try -

"Do It Yourself: Building Your Own Bamboo Bike"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121628758

Posted 14 years ago #
miggy_magic
Member

Sounds like a good wee project. Funny you should mention that, chdot - one of my colleagues is building a bamboo bike! The shipment of bamboo arrived in our office a couple of weeks ago to much bemusement.

Posted 14 years ago #
spytfyre
Member

nice idea but I reckon the camera will get minced with the constant shock from pot holes

Posted 14 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

@spytfyre - only one way to find out! some rubber bungs should help

Posted 14 years ago #
nearefare
Member

http://www.lowimpact.org/gorgie_bike_trailer.htm

build yer own bike at gorgie city farm

Posted 14 years ago #
DaveC
Member

We bought some wood effect sticky backed plastic for the kitchen which could look good on an old bike frame.

... getting back to the Camera Mount. Did you know some cameras have waterproof marine cases? They have the tripod mount nut built into the housing so you could also capture cycling in the rain.

Waterproof housing for canon cameras

Posted 14 years ago #
Kim
Member

I am not sure why you are wanting to mount a camera on your handle bars like that?

If you want to take photos which not just carry it in your pocket and take it out when you need it?

Or if you are wanting to record short video clips, then get a Veho Muvi Camcorder, it is about the size of a match box and comes with a water proof cover and a mounting kit all for under £40.

Posted 14 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

Steveo - these are the droids you are looking for

Posted 12 years ago #
wingpig
Member

There's a bit of a gap between "a digital camera you wouldn't cry over if it got damaged" and "brand-new D3100" so I hope he's using and old camera.

Posted 12 years ago #
steveo
Member

Excellent Kaputnik, i shall investigate and see if I have these parts.

Wingpig, it was in response to this thought via twitter.
"I wonder if there is a safe way to attach a tripod screw to an ahead set to allow the use of a bicycle as a mono (bi) pod. Not while riding."

Just thinking out loud to see if there was a way I could avoid a tripod for times of marginal light.

Posted 12 years ago #
wingpig
Member

Yip, seen that. Even when not moving, cycles can fall over, as a bloke I went past on the canal a few years ago who was just picking up his camera after it had been slammed sideways into the ground after he'd used a Gorillapod to attach it to his handlebars found out.

Posted 12 years ago #
steveo
Member

Good point, the precarious balance probably means its even less stable than a monopod

Off road a guy and tent peg would help with that.

Probably better to just stick the tripod in the bag.

Posted 12 years ago #
wingpig
Member

A while back I vaguely considered getting a chunky monopod to replace my flimsy broken tripod, using the bike as the other two legs. Leaning bike against leg then resting camera on seat (whilst keeping a tight hold on the strap) is safer and steadier as the seat doesn't swivel as much as the bars...

Posted 12 years ago #
chdot
Admin

"POSTED 2 YEARS AGO"

And K still remembers it!

Impressive.

Posted 12 years ago #
steveo
Member

Leaning bike against leg then resting camera on seat (whilst keeping a tight hold on the strap

A small section of old seat post could be modified to take a tripod head easily enough, coupled with a qr and either a strap or guy and peg would be a fairly stable platform as long as you got the angle right there wouldn't be any bike in shot.

And K still remembers it!

Impressive.

'affore my time i think.

Posted 12 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

Bodge: Accomplished! by the Magnificent Octopus, on Flickr

This week, I have been mostly bodging my bottle cage onto the 3rd set of mounting holes on my tourer, which were positioned 1 inch too far up the tube, resulting in no clearance betwixt bottle and wheel. With a little bit of patience, a lot of filing and some bits of randomly shaped metal out of the floorsweepings box, I seem to have constructed something that works and doesn't look too bad!

Posted 11 years ago #
gembo
Member

Yeah but you seem to have two sets of pedals on your bike too, which is equally clever

Posted 11 years ago #
amir
Member

And a mutant wheel-frame

Posted 11 years ago #
Uberuce
Member

Egads, man! Don't bamboozle us with that kind of fade/blend thingmy!

Posted 11 years ago #
Cyclingmollie
Member

Just need to remember not to have a quick swig by accident*.

*Depends how you roll of course.

Posted 11 years ago #
Instography
Member

Looks good. Weird bike. Must confess, I never got into the meths thing with the Trangia. Gas burner.

Posted 11 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

@instography, I have a quite nice Primus gas burner (one of the ground-mounted ones with a hose to the fuel canister). However I don't like how it packs down, being an inconvenient shape for fitting into the dixies and requiring it's own tin. I don't like the rather wussy windshield that always blows over, I don't like how telling how much gas you have left in the can is a dark art, I don't like that it's not always easy to get correct gas cans (even though I carry an adapter to take threaded and threadless cans) and lastly, the peiz got broken when the burglar tried to steal it (and dropped it) and I resented having to carry a lighter when I'd purposely bought a self-lighting one!

So I went back to basics cos I only really need to boil water and will keep the gas stove for special occassions or whatever.

Posted 11 years ago #
gembo
Member

Kaps, do you like or dislike your primus stove?

Posted 11 years ago #
Instography
Member

Mainly I didn't like the way the meths made the pans dirty, which is definitely a bit wussy.

But then I have a bit of a stove collection. The less I go camping the more gear I buy like that was some kind of alternative. Current favourite is a wood burning stove made by a guy on a canoeing forum. The Kelly Kettle is great fun for the kids. It was a triumph of will to walk out of Cotswold Outdoor without buying one of these.

Posted 11 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

@Gembo, I like the way it cooks. I dislike everything else it would seem

@Instography saw that in Tiso when I bought the Trangia, couldn't work out if it was a stove or what! Fancy.

Like the idea of a wee scavenged-fuel burner for beach trips or whatever. But think just the 1 (2) stove will do for now.

Posted 11 years ago #
Instography
Member

Get thee a kelly kettle.

Posted 11 years ago #
kaputnik
Moderator

Having Googled that, it's definitely on the list! (And not the list I put things on that annoy me, like Wiggle)

Posted 11 years ago #

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