Video from Urban/Theo Ride 9-7

[RichZilla]

This is some video we got from my helmet cam last night. Pete and Jimmy know where this is, I don't. Fun ride. I'll try to get some more of the footage loaded up on youtube. These jumps are a couple miles from Theo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lGFk-1AII

Frame grab from the video:
http://www.morcmtb.org/photopost/data/501/Pete_DJ.jpg
Too bad you can't embed the video, that would be sweet...

[RichZilla]

Here's another one from my point of view with the helmet cam on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9-6zEeFxG4

[nitrousflame]

Wait, these jumps are by theo? No way did I not know about these, I live less than 2 mi from theo!

Please inform. (PM is fine)

Oh, and awesome video. What kind of helmet cam are you running? I just mount my canon SD300 to my helmet with a bolt, haha.

[RichZilla]

What kind of helmet cam are you running? I just mount my canon SD300 to my helmet with a bolt, haha.

I've got 2 different Sony 'lipstick' style cameras that plug into my regular camcorder. They are about as big as my thumb. The lipstick cam is mounted to my helmet, and I carry the camcorder in a bag on my chest. Most of the time when I crash I end up on my back at some point, so the front ends up being a safer place to carry it.

[wanderingrobots]

wait wait wait.... secret jumps by theo. as a theo addict, i would love to know where these are. via pm of course.


oh and its weird how helmet cams always make jumping look so small and easy. like if there was a camera just sitting beside a jump it would make the jumping look alot bigger than a helmet camera does. i wonder why that is. anyone got an explanantion?

[RichZilla]

wait wait wait.... secret jumps by theo. as a theo addict, i would love to know where these are. via pm of course.


oh and its weird how helmet cams always make jumping look so small and easy. like if there was a camera just sitting beside a jump it would make the jumping look alot bigger than a helmet camera does. i wonder why that is. anyone got an explanantion?

The jumps are NOT very close to Theo. They're probably a couple miles away. Somewhere between Robbinsdale and Theo...a 5 mile or so ride.

It may be that the helmet cam lenses I have are both kind of wide angle and you get a little 'fisheye' effect to them. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Here's 2 more links. One is the complete short loop at Theo and the other is a sampler of some of the urban stuff we did with a little Theo also.

Theo short loop, 3min 56sec:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-_GV1bxI-M

Sampler platter, 3min 14sec:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-C3uh889qk

[Kosk]

Brap! Thanks for letting me ride the Demo, Rich. Tis a nice bike. Good vid too. They look tiny in the video! I can't imagine how "big" those jumps you see pros do in videos are in first person, cuz those actually "look" big.....

[Buck]

Brap! Thanks for letting me ride the Demo, Rich. Tis a nice bike. Good vid too. They look tiny in the video! I can't imagine how "big" those jumps you see pros do in videos are in first person, cuz those actually "look" big.....

You mean jumps like this....
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Buck0250/quarterair.png

or this

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Buck0250/kjs.png


Awesome video Rich, I'll make it out with ya one of these time, just a damn packed fall schedule...
L8Rz
Buck

[Kosk]

You mean jumps like this....

no, more like this actually:

http://www.interstate80.info/grounded/napoleon5.jpg