GoPro mounting

Show us some of the crazy and different places and different ways you have mounted your GoPro on your race cars, boats or anything.

I have mounted mine on the roll bars, dash, and under the back looking at the rear chassis. I buy my mounts off ebay you can get them for over half the price you pay at Walmart. You can fine some nice cases for storing them also.

When I mount mine on the rollcage, the vibration makes the video jerky and the sound is for S$%&. Mounted on the helmet or body is ok. I even wrapped a piece of rubber hose around the bar and clamped to that, same result. Anybody else have that problem? Maybe I need a setting change in the camera?

BTW, when I mounted it on my helmet, I found out that I look around too much.

maverick wrote:When I mount mine on the rollcage, the vibration makes the video jerky and the sound is for S$%&.  Mounted on the helmet or body is ok.  I even wrapped a piece of rubber hose around the bar and clamped to that, same result.  Anybody else have that problem?  Maybe I need a setting change in the camera?

Make sure the camera itself isn't loose in the clear case.  GoPro has moisture-absorbing strips for the sealed housings that can also double as shims/dampeners in the open cases, cutting down on the vibration issues.  I suppose cardboard strips or folded paper could serve the same purpose.

Camera is snug as can be in the housing. Do you guys have some favorite settings for your cameras?

Sorry for the hijack, Rick...but it's GoPro related.

Looking backwards is always a favorite of mine....

https://youtu.be/Y5kYNN9ZcgQ

Or at the guy in the other lane...

https://youtu.be/AHBvybdMLFM

richter69 wrote:Looking backwards is always a favorite of mine....

https://youtu.be/Y5kYNN9ZcgQ

Or at the guy in the other lane...

https://youtu.be/AHBvybdMLFM

Wait a minute...Did I hear 3 gears in that second vid?

sbf/c4

OK...wrong car But I'm keeping an eye on you.

Before GoPro came out, but similar.. Made this little guy for an older cam..  Turned out it was a little too low for a decent view  

Thx Guy's,keepem comin.

maverick wrote:BTW, when I mounted it on my helmet, I found out that I look around too much.

Here's what you need Kim A Little pricey but,otherwise very cool.


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www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_P69RGeLrM

bbf-falcon wrote:

maverick wrote:BTW, when I mounted it on my helmet, I found out that I look around too much.

Here's what you need Kim  A Little pricey but,otherwise very cool.


► 4:54► 4:54


www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_P69RGeLrM

Very nice piece.. but limited benefit to a roll bar application as shown in the video.  It does cut down "jitter" quite well though

Seems to kick ass everywhere else

Rick that takes all the problems out of watching all these shakey out of focus not pointed in the right direction videos we watch on here...


the ones I really like are the ones where they video the race and then walk around the pits for 45 minutes or so and have no clue they still have the camera on....

DFI429 wrote:

bbf-falcon wrote:

maverick wrote:BTW, when I mounted it on my helmet, I found out that I look around too much.

Here's what you need Kim  A Little pricey but,otherwise very cool.


► 4:54► 4:54


www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_P69RGeLrM

Very nice piece.. but limited benefit to a roll bar application as shown in the video.  It does cut down "jitter" quite well though

Seems to kick ass everywhere else

Whoa! I need that thing! How pricey is "pricey"?

Amazon has them for $200.Like DFI429 said,i don't know if it would help the shake on the rollbar though.

bbf-falcon wrote:Amazon has them for $200.Like DFI429 said,i don't know if it would help the shake on the rollbar though.

I was thinking that mount does its' job very well in a hand-held application, and if mounted in a roll bar scenario it helps smooth out the jitters... But part of what I like about "in car" videos is the brutal reality, un-dampened

I might be on a similar tangent to Randy

here's our on the cage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTq5ohh4Wek

here a better view. first round ran a dead on 9.50 on the 9.50 super comp index up here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wiJJYsP64

Ace

here's another one and if you listen carefully you can here the drivers excitment after the finish line. my daughter is out of control. and a good racer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9OVyaBMTUk

Ace

IMO the in-car camera stuff is usually kinda boring to watch (well....unless it's a crash/fire/mishap of course). Same goes for the rear view shot from the top of the trunk/deck wing area. Same goes for the forward view shot out on the nose of the front end.

In a gopro video I want to see "work get'n done". Shoot under car video of the rear slicks/suspension/shocks, or the front suspension, or the wheelie bar wheels. Or stick the camera at the back of the car on the side pointing forward showing what the nose is doing, (& any kool fender exit header nos flame), or down pointing at the slicks.

I wil post up of one from under the rear looking at the rear chassis and one from the dash as soon as they upload to photobucket

richter69 wrote:Looking backwards is always a favorite of mine....

https://youtu.be/Y5kYNN9ZcgQ

Or at the guy in the other lane...

https://youtu.be/AHBvybdMLFM

Hope you have it in there when you run 'daddy dave' again

GT300TD wrote:

richter69 wrote:Looking backwards is always a favorite of mine....

https://youtu.be/Y5kYNN9ZcgQ

Or at the guy in the other lane...

https://youtu.be/AHBvybdMLFM

Hope you have it in there when you run 'daddy dave' again

Probably won't happen...Daddy Dave has a public image to maintain. Jon makes that more difficult.

Maybe Dave has a video from a FORWARD FACING GoPro that shows a black Grande leaving him behind like he missed a bus.

the Coug wrote:


the ones I really like are the ones where they video the race and then walk around the pits for  45 minutes or so and have no clue they still have the camera on....

I bet we all have to delete one of those now and then. They're usually laced with lots of colorful dialogue, too.