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Here are a bunch of helmetcam videos from the Wissahickon. I'll be adding more to the set as time goes on, so I figured I'd start a thread for it and for anyone else with footage.

Flickr maxes out at 1.5 minutes, so it's great for short clips. I'll post YouTube links for longer clips.

There are some newer ones here (newest first) than the ones posted in the 5/17 Trim thread.

Helmetcam Videos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/sets/72157604485039632/detail/) (RSS Feed (http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157604485039632&nsid=12328946@N00&lang=en-us) available)

Hope you enjoy!

Repoman those are great! Loved the demo2 & the rock vegas runs.. 

awesome Repo. Where's the 'bike park' at?

Hey Bonkers, which trail do you guys call Rock Vegas. Cool name.

Thanks again... keep checking for more, I intend to do a lot of filming from this point on (with more people and more angles).


That's way up on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario. Pretty cool place. (http://www.mtbthebruce.com/mtbgallery.php) It's literally in the middle of nowhere and my friend and I were the only ones there the whole time we rode. Ewok Village was pretty entertaining. Not to mention the area is beautiful. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/1175125294/in/set-72157601570357917/)

Hey DannyC21, is that you guys in the Demo 1 clip (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/2509410454/)?

No that wasn't us.  We saw you (if it was you) coming down the hill by Gorgas Lane.  We were coming up and you were coming down.

Ah, OK, is this your group? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/2511414724/)

Actually, I think I'm all screwed up. I don't think Gorgas is where I thought it was. Is Gorgas the one that comes down into the park under Henry Ave right after the Livezy Pavilion (heading away from the Inn)?

If you go up the cinder trail and exit the park at the end of this video (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/2509812218/), is that Jannette St?

Did I mention I was wearing a stealth jersey that day? haha.  Nope I'm not in that group.  It was only two of us. 

And I believe Gorgas is just under Henry Ave, and meets at the concrete bridge that runs over the stream (correct me if I'm wrong). 

Repo and Danny.

You guys are both right about Gorgas. If you leave the Pavillion at Livezey and head away from the Inn on the yellow trail, Gorgas is the first fire road you come to, after you decend Chaplin hill, and there is a concrete bridge. If you go right and head up the fire road there is a gate and Gorgas lane will take you all the way up to Ridge ave near the Wawa and the Fire station.

OK, that clears it up. I have never actually been farther up that fire road than under the bridge in all these years.

And yeah, now I totally remember seeing you Danny. I didn't have the camera on for that whole section. Took a while for me to mentally pinpoint it, but like my riding I eventually get there in the end.  ;D

damn, the pics look good, I just can't see re video steam on
my iPhone, will have to wait until later...
 :-\

I didn't name that one, that's actually the first time I heard it called that. It's that section by Bells Mills with the big ol' rock garden that I effed up my wrist on at RitV.

Oh yeah, that's just my personal name for it because if you like rocks it's a jackpot.

Some clips from today... man what a beautiful day.

These include some alternate camera mountings and I think they turned out kind of cool, like this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/2518742643/) mounted flat on the top tube and this mounted on the side. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/2519627592/)

Full set here. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/sets/72157604485039632/detail/)

I have a bunch more, this is all I had time to upload.

once again those are great. I like the lower mount because you get more of a sense of the terrain; hills look like hills. When the cam in on the helmet it's sort of hard to tell the flow of something.

Anyway you could try a bar mount, or even below the bar mount where you have a clear view like the helmet but from lower down?

Definitely like the side shot seeing the Lefty in action.  Also like the Prophet view watching your braking action.

That's pretty cool! I'm gonna have to try that optional mount from the side. My helmet cam doesn't always point to where I think it is.

Took a bunch today with the camera mounted on the bars like this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoman/2522567107/in/set-72157604485039632/). That should look good following riders. Like fishnchips said, the lower angles do indeed give a better sense of the terrain.

awesome repo. That's really does it. Felt like I was flying down the trail...

LOL- I just realized what section that was at the end of that run to Janette. If you add a hiker on that last turn to the right you'd have my crash run last summer. I had to turn back in towards the bigger rocks to avoid a collision & clipped my pedal which 360'd me right in front of her.. yeah I can still that woman's face.. I got up bleeding & bruised (but also laughing) & I didn't even get a "are you ok?" out of her. Of course I wanted to say something sarcastic to her but I bit my tongue instead.