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Riding FM 4 |
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Saturday 16th Aug 2008 |
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I
was in Deal's gap a few weeks ago and took the Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic
last weekend. I know that does seem to be the wrong order but the trip
was scheduled long before the course was scheduled for Dallas. I
learned a lot in the class and wanted to try out a couple of
things, so decided to go to my favorite road in the Greater Dallas /
Fort Worth area. I say, "Greater" because it's over a hundred
miles away but if you live in Texas that is still pretty close. A
friend of mine told me about Twisted Sisters
I'm looking forward to riding that road but it's Southwest of
Fredericksburg near San Antonio and since it was suppose to rain
today I didn't want to do a 6 hour ride one way, ride the road and then
try and make it back in a day. It also seems like a good place
to go with my wife. She won't want to ride Twisted Sisters with
me but she will be OK with staying at a nice Marriott on the riverwalk
in San Antonio while I go beat up the road.  Camera Mount for BMW R 1200 RT (You can click on the photo and see how I cobbled this together) I also bought some video software so I thought I would mount my little camera to the bike and see if I could record my ride. The mount looks much more complicated than it is since most of what you see is really motorcycle. I found the tripod in the attic I think it came with one of the many camera's I have bought over the years. I know it looks like I stuck it to the dashboard with some chewing gum but that's really Blu Tack and yes that is a bungee cord. I wasn't sure how it would work but you can watch the video and see it worked pretty well. The camera which I bought even though the review on Amazon said it sucked as a video camera has turned out to be a pretty good video camera. I does shoot a little smaller size video and only does 29 minutes per shot, but I have found nothing that you shoot with a hand held point and shoot camera should be longer than 29 minutes. I did about two hours of video total by pushing the button more than once but one long 29 minute continuous shot would be a stretch for Spielberg.  Camera mount (Notice the Bubblegum and Business Card) I did have to cover the LCD view finder because it is illegal to have a video screen visible to the driver. I cut one of my business cards to fit and as you can see from the photo held it in place with some more Blu Tack. We learned in class last weekend that you should hang off the bike since it allows the bike to turn without you having to lean it so far over. This means that you can go faster and lean the bike over father without hitting any of the hard parts. So it is safer, of course it doesn't feel safer since you are hanging off a motorcycle but it is and once you get the hang of it (a small pun intended) it does make you feel more in control. If you watch the video you see me come up around a corner spot some roadkill in the road and slide between it and the yellow line as a car comes towards me. Since I was hanging off the bike I was able to enter the turn later after seeing both the roadkill and the opposing car. I picked a good (but not pretty) line that keep me away from both. Video. Not bad for a Point and Shoot camera and a mount made of bubblegum and a bungee cord. I did try and put into practice what I learned in the class but I still have a way to go. I think I'm still "thinking" too much. Lee Parks says that there are 10 steps to Proper Cornering in his book Total Control.
I'll have to order more Blu Tack if I'm going to ride "Twisted Sisters" or maybe I'll really use bubblegum next time. |
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