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My video camera from helmetcamera.com arrived today. I’ve got it in the mount now, and all wired up – later I will go see how it works on the bike. The lense is fairly wide angle, so I think it will work fine mounted under the nose of the motorcycle. I’ll run the mic back towards the exhaust and see how that sounds.

The Michelin Pilot Powers are here too, but the mailroom screwed me again. I’ll have to wait until Monday now. That’s not a huge deal, I’ll go put another few hundred miles on the Dunlops before I get rid of them.

Edit to add:
Yesterday I mounted the helmet cam under the nose of the SV and went for a block around Kelley Hill to see how it works out. Stability seems alright to me, though I think I’m going to come up with a way to tie the cam and mount to the bike, in case the adhesive for the velcro stuff lets loose. One major issue is the sound, but I can mess with mounting points for the microphone. I had it clipped to the underside of the bike, but there’s a lot of wind noise causing some serious audio clipping. Tomorrow if the weather looks nice, I will go out and take pictures of the mounted camera, and make another test run with the microphone in my undertail storage to see if just blocking the direct wind is enough. If not, I’ll get a block of foam or something to stick the mic in and try that. Video Here

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