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There are a gazillion ways to mount your camera on your bike. Most of them require more than a few “spare parts” laying around your genius workshop. If you don’t have the spare parts, you’ll be hitting up the hardware store.
Forget the hardware store and just go to your local megamart’s electronics section and pick up a GorillaPod. Three sizes available. I use the largest and the smallest. The large one works for heavy DSLRs and video cameras. The small one is perfect for smaller digital cameras. Just wrap the three legs around your handlebars and you’re off!
I made this little video using the smallest GorillaPod and my Olympus 720SW. With this one I mounted the camera to the top tube rather than the handlebars for some reason. Turned out okay, but the cables get in the way. Bar mount is better.
Why would you want to mount a camera to your bike? Well, you could make a riveting video of your commute–mount a camera to the front and one on your rear rack facing backwards. Then splice the two streams together to show a forward/backward view of your commute. That’s the kind of project that’ll land you a hot date, for sure.
Most people who mount cameras to their bikes just want to have a quick way to document interesting stuff, or dumb drivers. If you have no interest in either, then move along. Nothing to see here.
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6 comments for this entry ↓
1 Ryan // Feb 13, 2008 at 4:58 am
I think a gorilla-pod could be ‘hacked’ from some Loc-Line parts and the correctly sized threaded rod. (maybe some JB Coldweld to stick things together?)
http://www.loc-line.com/products/index.html
I agree that the g-pod is an awesome way to put a camera nearly anywhere.
2 Nick Johnson // Feb 13, 2008 at 7:11 am
My handlebar camera mount: http://cheaphack.blogspot.com/2008/01/easy-handlebar-camera-mount.html
3 Matt // Feb 13, 2008 at 10:47 am
Not that your video isn’t just enthralling, but this one will get your blood pumping. I assume it is a helmet mount . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2ygFn-yR8
4 Nick Johnson // Feb 13, 2008 at 11:01 am
Alas, it’s true! I’m NOT ON CRACK!
5 Bren // Feb 13, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s a boring video. Proof of concept, though, eh?
Nick, I dig your mount solution. The thing I like about the gorillapod, though, is the ability to mount it anywhere on the bike, at any angle–even on smaller gauge tubes.
Ryan, yeah, I think the loc line could be an option for a DIY project. It’s definitely got the stiffness needed, and it’s flexible. Without the rubber it might be too slippery, though…
6 ewfewf // Apr 9, 2008 at 1:08 pm
what the funk is this?
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