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Earl Bollinger
Guest
I thought that maybe someone might have a slight interest in what a bicycle
ride or commute looks like from the rider
s point of view. I used a mini-spy cam and a pocket video recorder to record
a lot of my bicycle rides.
I commute by bicycle from Grapevine Texas to Addison Texas, through several
cities along the way too. Pretty much all urban and city riding.
The main purpose was to catch a hostlie motorist doing something stupid,
that I might be able to use against them later.
But since last year's gasoline crisis and stuff, it seems drivers for the
nost part are all being a lot nicer than they were before the gas crises
last year.
So far drivers tend to pass by too closely in some cases, or cut me off to
make right turns.
The microphone normally records a lot of wind noise, so you might want to
turn the volume down or play your own music instead.
The video might help give you a cycling fix when it is storming and raining
outside.
This is a rear camera view of my commute from work back home on the one road
section that I really don't like all that much.
narrow lanes, curbs, no sidewalks, 50mph speedlimit that everyone tends to
ignore.
Unfortunately there is no way to really bypass this route on the way into
work and back. There is about 2 miles of it that has no alternate ways to
bypass.
http://earlwb.onlinestoragesolution.com/Commute_Home_rear_cam.wmv
320x200 and about 23megaytes in size. Probably not good to download if you
still use a dialup connection.
I have taken to having the video cam record what happens behind me as I am
riding to see if it catches anything or no of obnoxious drivers doing
things.
This is a more or less raw video of my entire 23 mile commute from work to
home a while back:
http://earlwb.onlinestoragesolution.com/commute_back_home_rushhour_01.wmv
It is 320x200 and about 140 megabytes in size. So unless you have a high
speed connection you probably want to avoid it.
This was a tough ride, as on that day it was blowing like 20mph with
25-30mph gusts too.
Plus I had to leave work early so I could hurry back home to vote in the
primaries, making it doubly tough.
Because it was rush hour I used an alternate route to bypass much of the
road I am not fond of riding on.
Plus I took advantage of some sidewalks to avoid the rush hour traffic and
bypass some of the traffic jams too. But when you ride on a sidewalk,
drivers totally ignore you, so you really have to be careful then for sure.
If it isn't rush hour, I ride on the roads for the entire commute.
Normally my commutes are mostly in the dark in the morning and mostly in the
dark in the evening, so this was a good opportunity to get the entire ride
in the daylight.
ride or commute looks like from the rider
s point of view. I used a mini-spy cam and a pocket video recorder to record
a lot of my bicycle rides.
I commute by bicycle from Grapevine Texas to Addison Texas, through several
cities along the way too. Pretty much all urban and city riding.
The main purpose was to catch a hostlie motorist doing something stupid,
that I might be able to use against them later.
But since last year's gasoline crisis and stuff, it seems drivers for the
nost part are all being a lot nicer than they were before the gas crises
last year.
So far drivers tend to pass by too closely in some cases, or cut me off to
make right turns.
The microphone normally records a lot of wind noise, so you might want to
turn the volume down or play your own music instead.
The video might help give you a cycling fix when it is storming and raining
outside.
This is a rear camera view of my commute from work back home on the one road
section that I really don't like all that much.
narrow lanes, curbs, no sidewalks, 50mph speedlimit that everyone tends to
ignore.
Unfortunately there is no way to really bypass this route on the way into
work and back. There is about 2 miles of it that has no alternate ways to
bypass.
http://earlwb.onlinestoragesolution.com/Commute_Home_rear_cam.wmv
320x200 and about 23megaytes in size. Probably not good to download if you
still use a dialup connection.
I have taken to having the video cam record what happens behind me as I am
riding to see if it catches anything or no of obnoxious drivers doing
things.
This is a more or less raw video of my entire 23 mile commute from work to
home a while back:
http://earlwb.onlinestoragesolution.com/commute_back_home_rushhour_01.wmv
It is 320x200 and about 140 megabytes in size. So unless you have a high
speed connection you probably want to avoid it.
This was a tough ride, as on that day it was blowing like 20mph with
25-30mph gusts too.
Plus I had to leave work early so I could hurry back home to vote in the
primaries, making it doubly tough.
Because it was rush hour I used an alternate route to bypass much of the
road I am not fond of riding on.
Plus I took advantage of some sidewalks to avoid the rush hour traffic and
bypass some of the traffic jams too. But when you ride on a sidewalk,
drivers totally ignore you, so you really have to be careful then for sure.
If it isn't rush hour, I ride on the roads for the entire commute.
Normally my commutes are mostly in the dark in the morning and mostly in the
dark in the evening, so this was a good opportunity to get the entire ride
in the daylight.
