Ninja 250R, Ninja 650R, Versys, or SV650SF

[Ducman69]

OK, well I'll post a picture when I get it done. Will do the measurements, and send it off tomorrow.

I did make a little video riding back from work, and its super lame and awkward, but its my first time... so be gentle. <3 *bats eyes*

http://blip.tv/file/1081028/

PS: Oh, and the original footage is much better, the dvix conversion made it all pixilated and blurry, ugh. Too lazy to rerender though.

[Thameth]

You shot it sideways??? Really??? WTF?

[Ducman69]

ITS TOO BIG!

*coughthatswhatshesaidcough*

Seriously, the camera will even do 720P 16x9 widescreen, but it only fits vertical by the mouthpiece, so 4x3 vertical and cropped to square 3x3 is the best I can do for blogs. For just raw footage, I can strap it to the forehead of my helmet for awesomeness... but you won't be able to masturbate to the sound of my voice unless I rig up some mic or something inside the helmet.

[Thameth]

Yeah... about that, the audio was pretty garbled..... you gargling something?

[Wilshire]

I was actually surprised by the audio quality. I guess I'm used to the open window auto-x and track videos with the lens cap clinking as it bounces around. That being said please do work on that video compression, I was expecting cheesy Windows Movie Maker blue title screens to make an appearance because of its quality.

Overall it was a good video for a first attempt and I've added your RSS feed.

[mievil]

Best commentary ever. Totally represents your online presence which means you are indeed real, and not fake like Chalz. I am also surprised at the audio quality.

Interesting notes:

You failed to stop at the stop in your lot while leaving. You are a rebel.

Your commentary regarding the waves between bike groups is interesting. Around here, across 5 lanes of traffic in an opposite direction, sport tourers will always wave. Sport bikers often wave. I wave to scooters who are always shocked that someone is acknowledging their existence. But when I rented the Harley, I was waving to everyone like always, and only got wave backs from other cruiser riders. So I guess that's a two way street. Sport bikers don't expect cruisers to wave, and when they do they want to retaliate by not waving to snub all the other cruisers who dismissed the initiated wave.

Commentary is completely random. I love it. I also love the hand gestures that you make while talking on a motorcycle to an imaginary audience.

"Multi-million dollar homes in California buys you what....a kitchen and a bathroom?"

"It's gonna be like your first time where she's like, "But I poop from there," and you just gotta pretend like you know what you're doing."

The glare on the bottom edge of your windscreen is totally distracting. Was it like that with the stock screen?

Price is Right soundtrack?

"I believe that Asians are the master race." Does that include Indians?

"If you're an Asian chick and horny and want to love me long time, definitely interested. I've got some German sausage for you."

Totally awesome. I didn't get any notice of side shooting. Looks like what I would do when riding the bike. Your commute looks dull as hell, though. I want to get one of those setups and all us riders can compare commutes. Totally awesome dude. Even though you are farkle obsessed and strangely over obsessed about your anal beads.

[mievil]

BTW, I am almost positive that you said something about the mic and camera mount somewhere but can't find it. Can you reiterate since I am really digging the commute blog? What is it, where did you buy it, how much did it cost, etc. Thanks.

[xryz]

with no doubt HOND CBR600 but from this options.......

i decide for the 250R

[Ducman69]

Edit: Crap! I just now noticed AFTERWARDS that I've had the camera set to QVGA mode, not VGA.... QVGA is 1/4 the size, not a Q for Quality! xD

I have been recording at 320x240 pixels instead of 1280x720 according to the manual.

Neways, better audio at least:

Random **** is Random (Deer Rape in Part 2)
http://blip.tv/file/1084636
http://blip.tv/file/1084563

Oh, and we should so all get a biker-blog-gang going. It'll be like a real biker-gang, except we can just bully pre-teens on myspace instead. Oh, and regarding my camera setup, I'll just make a video later today, but in retrospect, I'd recommend one of those thin cameras that DOES NOT have a lens that pops out when you turn it on.

[FocusOnPunk]

ROFL, stop ****ing talking so much :lol


You are the in-person manifestation of rpvitiello on FJ. haha

[rpvitiello]

/\ Rofl

[bR0Ken_H3arT]

Nice videos Ducman!

Questions please:

1) Why is there no traffic? Not one car appears - spooky.

2) Is that a Tom Tom Sat Nav for motorbikes? (Tom Tom Rider)?

3) How did you record the audio, a cell-phone set up maybe, or a is it Blu Tooth into your Ipod or something?

Very entertaining, either way. You have a wacky sense of humour and seem preoccupied with sexual jokes, so we must be related.

Thank you, my first view of America and it's funny the way you keep saying 'dude', despite being alone.

[soybean311]

that was awesome!!! i loved it!

[richmedium]

Great video. I should make one of a ride thru Hialeah or something. I looked in the tread and I couldn't find any mention of the video camera you're using. I want to know your recording setup!

[Ducman69]

Thanks!

OK, last bump w/ vid update, will put future ones in the official video thread sticky, and encourage you moto-suckas to do so as well!

This vid I figured out how to set it to HD, and cropped it to 720x720 (still compressed to 50mb though for easy sharing), and it shows my helmet-cam setup.

http://blip.tv/file/1086788

Originally Posted by richmedium

Great video. I should make one of a ride thru Hialeah or something.

Hellz yeah you should!

[mievil]

That whole deer scene and the want to drive through lawns was awesome. Mostly because I am an adventure rider at heart, but am deathly afraid of anything off the asphalt on my bike. The bouncing up and down had me, my buddy, and his wife lolling.

[FocusOnPunk]

Haha, nice

[soybean311]

Originally Posted by Ducman69

http://blip.tv/file/1086788

LOL!!!!

[Ducman69]

Gaw, I hadn't watched my video back in its entirety... I sound like Darth Vader with a cold with all that breathing!

Once I get over this congestion and can breath through my nose again and get a little foam piece to go over the mic part on the camera it should be mo betta.

[phxtravis]

*waiting for the video of you riding a deer....

[Thameth]

Your mom!!! Foo!

I see your using Divx for you upload, you gotta crank that quality up because its getting raped in the Flash version. Blip usually does a pretty good job with the quality.

You may want to do a test or two with converting it to H.264 and uploading it as a quicktime. If you need quicktime pro send me a PM.

Also its a shame you shoot it portrait because otherwise you could upload it to Vimeo which is even slightly better than Blip quality. But I don't think Vimeo will size the video the way you have it on Blip.

[mievil]

I thought the quality was much better in the first vid. You could actually see the GPS. In the ass rapage boner in the butt one the GPS looks all chunky. I'm not complaining, just giving observations. I think it's mostly about the words anyway. Also for the fact that I'm famous because someone used my name incorrectly in an internet thing. Also because I thought I heard something about a Thomath (with a lisp) when I always pronounce it in my head as The Meth. I still can't get over that bouncing on the bike thing.

[bigdaddyzx3]

Originally Posted by Ducman69

http://blip.tv/file/1086788

Hilarious!

Originally Posted by Ducman69

See the little teeth thing? That'll be sweet!

People will fear me.

ROFL

[mievil]

OMFG! I totally am busting up laughing at you reading Focaljet with the camera setup.

"You know what, how bout you STFU [/middlefinger]" hahhahahahahaha

When I first read that comment I was all emo because the vocals make the video. So cut cut cut. There. Happiness insues. Or howeverthehellyouspellit.

That camera setup is the ultimate keep it simple junk. Totally would have never even thought of it. Brilliant. The horizontal camera makes no sense whatsoever. But the vertical deal you've got going is pretty damn good. I'm gonna try it right now.