- Joined
- Jul 14, 2006
- Messages
- 361
- Reaction score
- 40
- Location
- Callander, Scotland
- Bike
- BMW (all models)
Some of you may remember me, or at least my bike I painted in zebra stripes. Anyhow, I now live in Scotland, in an area known as The Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
I haven't been able to afford a bike for 3 long years but one Sunday afternoon browsing through Facebook marketplace, I found a 1997 F650 I could afford, from a guy the other side of Edinburgh (which I could afford to get to), who couldn't sell it because he'd done a home paint job which didn't work out.
Long story short, there's been good weather, and I'm exploring. It helps to know that the sun only goes down just after 10pm at the moment, so this sort of thing is possible here. Any time it's not raining it's considered good weather.
Day before yesterday I took a ride. I faffed about thinking of a route until about 2pm, then thought "what the heck, why not try it?".
After getting dressed, which can take a while, and bike unlocked, I set off at 3:30pm. The world's worst enemies of freedom are the tourists who hire motorhomes bigger than anything they've driven before then potter along main, but single lane, roads at 40.
The place I live in is the gateway to the Highlands. It's like living in Clarens. It's mountains to the north, with amazing twisty roads, and the prettiest views, but to but stuck behind a motorhome at 40, with 19 cars behind it is "Arghhhhhh".
Anyhow, finally got past, and found somewhere to play. All in, the entire ride was done in six hours, with it still being light when I rode back into Callander at 10pm.
The helmet cam is a Sena Prism Tube. It cuts off a video at 1 hour, so I got 6 separate editing projects out of this, but so far only one unedited one uploaded to YouTube. It also has this weird idea that on switching it on, you can twist the lens so that the output is lopsided, so it's been a case of learning to rotate video in VLC.
Anybody got suggestions of what video editing software to use? Most of the apps I've found require you to know what it is you want to do, and that is a challenge these days.
Here's the video (unedited coz I couldn't work out how)
More pics in the next post
I haven't been able to afford a bike for 3 long years but one Sunday afternoon browsing through Facebook marketplace, I found a 1997 F650 I could afford, from a guy the other side of Edinburgh (which I could afford to get to), who couldn't sell it because he'd done a home paint job which didn't work out.
Long story short, there's been good weather, and I'm exploring. It helps to know that the sun only goes down just after 10pm at the moment, so this sort of thing is possible here. Any time it's not raining it's considered good weather.
Day before yesterday I took a ride. I faffed about thinking of a route until about 2pm, then thought "what the heck, why not try it?".
After getting dressed, which can take a while, and bike unlocked, I set off at 3:30pm. The world's worst enemies of freedom are the tourists who hire motorhomes bigger than anything they've driven before then potter along main, but single lane, roads at 40.
The place I live in is the gateway to the Highlands. It's like living in Clarens. It's mountains to the north, with amazing twisty roads, and the prettiest views, but to but stuck behind a motorhome at 40, with 19 cars behind it is "Arghhhhhh".
Anyhow, finally got past, and found somewhere to play. All in, the entire ride was done in six hours, with it still being light when I rode back into Callander at 10pm.
The helmet cam is a Sena Prism Tube. It cuts off a video at 1 hour, so I got 6 separate editing projects out of this, but so far only one unedited one uploaded to YouTube. It also has this weird idea that on switching it on, you can twist the lens so that the output is lopsided, so it's been a case of learning to rotate video in VLC.
Anybody got suggestions of what video editing software to use? Most of the apps I've found require you to know what it is you want to do, and that is a challenge these days.
Here's the video (unedited coz I couldn't work out how)
More pics in the next post
