Bike mounted Camera

You have awesome bike skills, don't you? You can pedal faster than anyone, you carve with the best of them, dodge cars and pedestrians like some guy from the Matrix? Well, what are you going to do to show off. Surely you're not content to only amaze those people directly around you, you need to record your skills to share with a greater audience.

Step 1 Obtain the proper bike

This works for 1 inch threaded headsets, and best for old ten speeds turned into fixed gears, because thats where most of the threaded headsets are nowadays. Anyway, most of you riding fixed gears are the most eager to show off your skills.
Obtain a reflector mount for the threaded headset, you most likely have one already, and if not, they cost next to nothing.

Remove the reflector, if it had one, and bend it straight.

Note, most of the reflector mounts are aluminum, and do not like being bent. It won't be too strong, but it's not supporting a good deal of weight, so it will work well enough.

Comments

[Yates_94]

i have got one of those olympus shockproof cameras, im not worried about the camera but is the mount fairly shockproof, i like going really fast over bumps and things!

[Jakfrost944]

You could use a hand mirror.

[PetervG]

But what if the camera unscrews?

[look! its man man!]

then youre out one camera.

[nkk07]

*wielding a chainsawinstead of phone* cut the cheap little legs off the tripod.
~
\_/

[8thDay]

do you get alot of vibration in your video?

[Eromanga]

I recently tried mounting a tripod on the front of my bike for making videos with one of the shockproof Olympus models. The main issue that came out of that is a smooth cycling surface is ideally desired (using an undampened camera on a dirt trail is too bumpy to view properly. The amount of vibration going to the camera has me retiscent in trying this with a less robust camera.

[TheBikemaniac]

If your shutter speed was from 30 to 60 would have a really neat speed effects, Try it out! :)

[TeacherOfTheWays]

Good job nice instructable! I also think you could mounted a video camera. So then you wouldent have to keep taking pictures. Great idea though!

[Fuzz2050]

My still camera can take video, not great resolution, but at least i can take as long as i have space for. A friend of mine has a big DV camera mounted on his handlebars, but it jumps around like hell.