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  1. My local riding buddy Eric is going to "track" me tomorrow on the beach
    bike path on his bike! I rigged my camera up with a makeshift mount so
    he will be able to get smooth footage and the full shot of me riding
    and weaving in & out of ppl on the path and doing some speed runs!

    The cam can easily be moved in all directions with the handle, so he
    can get side shots as well. I hope it works as it might make for a cool
    36-er vid! He can easily keep pace with me even if I hit 15-16 mph!
    Look for the vid soon after!🙂

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  2. sick setup Terry!!

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  3. I hope you have some sort of shock dampeners in that mount, cause
    mounted to a rigid frame like that will rattle it pretty hard if you
    hit any bumps.

    I see the bike has shocks...I wonder if that'll be enough. That's a
    pretty cool mount, too. How did you attach it?

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  4. yes that is pretty awesome! cant wait to see how it works

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  5. onelesscar said:

    I hope you have some sort of shock dampeners in that mount, cause
    mounted to a rigid frame like that will rattle it pretty hard if you
    hit any bumps.

    I see the bike has shocks...I wonder if that'll be enough. That's a
    pretty cool mount, too. How did you attach it?

    Well i already took it for a test run and it is just a tad shaky, but
    that's on city streets; it will be less so on the smooth bike path at
    the beach. And yeah, that bike has a very nice front shock system so
    that will help dampen thing as bit.

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  6. Hand held will go over way better. Even if there aren't "bumps", just
    the vibration will cause the shot to appear unfocused.

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  7. I have to say I enjoy your videos but you sure seem to have a lot of
    time on your hands! Ha! Whatever job you have I want one too!

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  8. rem48 said:

    I have to say I enjoy your videos but you sure seem to have a lot of
    time on your hands! Ha! Whatever job you have I want one too!

    He tunes pianos.

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  9. rem48 said:

    I have to say I enjoy your videos but you sure seem to have a lot of
    time on your hands! Ha! Whatever job you have I want one too!

    haha nah I work during the day tuning/repairing pianos, and 90% of my
    riding is done after 4pm when I'm usually finshed by then. And the
    weekends are free as well so I do have lots of time on my hands...so I
    put it to good use!

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  10. heres a question about your job...

    Are there a lot of pianos to be tuned? Like enough to keep you busy
    all week? It seems like such a specialized profession that if there is
    any competition in the area work will be slow.... And from what i can
    tell simply by your uni collection, you live a pretty decent lifestyle.

    I'm just interested cause its not often you meet someone who is a Piano
    Tuner...

    Forgive me for being intrigued by your profession.

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  11. j5isalive said:

    heres a question about your job...

    Are there a lot of pianos to be tuned? Like enough to keep you busy
    all week? It seems like such a specialized profession that if there is
    any competition in the area work will be slow.... And from what i can
    tell simply by your uni collection, you live a pretty decent lifestyle.

    I'm just interested cause its not often you meet someone who is a Piano
    Tuner...

    Forgive me for being intrigued by your profession.

    Hey np I appreciate your question. I have a database of more than 2,000
    clients, adding new ones all the time from various sources, like YP ad,
    referrals, and just word of mouth. I love my customers and truly love
    my work.

    It's challenging but always different from day to day. There are more
    piano owners today then ever before in the 300 year history of the
    piano! This is simply because the poulation has grown to 6 billion plus
    today, from a _far_ smaller number just 100 years ago, at which point
    the piano had still been around for 200 years!

    For example, the Yamaha corp. produces about 200,000 NEW pianos every
    year! that's just ONE maker. There are relatively few piano tuners to
    tune and service the many millions of pianos in the US alone, so there
    are well more than enough for ALL of us to have a very successful,
    lucrative career in this great and specialized field.

    The summer can be a tad slow for *new* people calling, but that's what
    my database is for! I simply call past customer's who are due for
    tuning! As you may have gathered, i love talking about pianos, and
    thats part of my success I think; My customers appreciate my attention
    to detail and work ethic. I treat their pianos with repsect and they
    like the results.🙂

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  12. that looks like a pretty cool set up, while it would be probably crappy
    at highspeeds, slow shots would work greatly for some very cool slow
    shots

    edit: however, if he was riding with no hands and carrying a tripod, he
    would have much greater success filming you, (meaning i'm sure your
    video is going to be filled with sideways jerky movements as he starts
    to lose you and corrects his bike position, etc...) and the shots would
    be 1000's of times smoother with a much wider range of shots 🙂

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  13. You should make a gyroscopic camera mount. Self leveling self shock
    absorbing the only problem is building it.

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  14. Some newer cameras have an "Auto-steady" feature in them that may
    prevent the vibrations from screwing up the picture.

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    brendan said:


    when i flex both arms one looks puny next to the other. Mind you it was
    that way after years of badminton...

    And maybe playing a little too much with the shuttlecock as well?
    Hmm? 😉


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  15. We'll do some test runs to see how it looks at different speeds. I
    wanted him to be able to concentrate on riding and keeping up as I go
    faster, without having to hold the cam in his hand, risking dropping it
    or crashing! If it sucks, I won't make the video, but I'm predicting
    that I will end up with some decent footage.

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  16. MuniAddict said:

    that bike has a very nice front shock system so that will help dampen
    thing as bit

    That front shock system isn't going to dampen out the tiny little bumps
    that'll make your video look shaky... you'll have better results if you
    deflate his tires a bit, though.

    Joe2005 said:

    You should make a gyroscopic camera mount. Self leveling self shock
    absorbing the only problem is building it.

    A gyroscope does not auto-level nor does it absorb shock. The utility
    of a gyroscope in this case would be to maintain the orientation of the
    camera.

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  17. maestro8 said:

    That front shock system isn't going to dampen out the tiny little bumps
    that'll make your video look shaky... you'll have better results if you
    deflate his tires a bit, though.

    Yes, definitely lower tire pressure will help reduce shock. This should
    at least make for an interesting experiment. I sure hope things worl
    out 'cause I have a couple funny bits that tie in.

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  18. Post something dang it! 🙂 Let's cut the chatter and see some results.

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  19. that is really cool aye.

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  20. i can't wait to see you 'post' a video 😎

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