Frank, what camera gear are you using for the one next to your head? IMHO is perfect since it captures the road and in the last couple clearly your speed. The lower mounted one (gas tank area) isn't my favorite view...but that upper one is sweet!
Yeah, i agree with you 100%. the video recorder mounted on my gas tank is a Flip video recorder ($110 from Amazon.com). Unfortunately, the Flip video recorder is vulnerable to the vibration of the engine at higher RPM's and gas tank vibration from both the road and engine. that's why i bought a new helmet mounted video recorder (Contour Roam) just last week--it's the one mounted to my helmet and is not vulnerable to the engine vibration nor the road or the gas tank vibration. this was my first time using it attached to my helmet and unfortunately, it's pointed too far down. now i know. I've since made a slight adjustment so that next time i go out to the Las Terrenas Coastal highway (on a different motorcycle next week, a 550 Supermoto) i will have more of a view of the road ahead, and everytime i look down at my RPM's and dashboard, it will show them as well (Although, my 550 doesn't have a dashboard).
I bought the Contour Roam off of Amazon.com for $179.00. I'm really happy with the quality. I'm also interested to see how long it takes me to cover the 15km on a single cylinder 550.
By the way, the run on that portion of highway that i recorded is 15km. it took me 7:27 to cover it from Point A to Point B, which means, if my math serves me correctly, that i averaged 77 MPH, or 123KM per hour. there are 46 curves for that portion of the highway...if i counted them correctly.
Frank
