Happy VholdR Day to Me!
I have the coolest brother in the world. He sent me a brand new VholdR ContourHD helmet cam for my birthday. Brother’s don’t get any cooler than than that. Thanks Stephen. You rule. VholdR rules too for giving him a sweet deal on them (did I say them? He picked one up for himself too…) Proper review will come in due time, but first impressions are really, really, really good.
I finally got out to Pass Mountain to give it a first run. Here’s the raw footage. I can’t edit the HD videos on my computer…it doesn’t have enough computing juice to play in High Def. I just shot a few short segments climbing to the north lookout, and a few sessions dropping down off the saddle. You can see the rest of the vids at http://vholdr.com/users/mtbikeaz.
I planned to shoot the entire ride from the saddle back to Usery Pass road, but I ended pinch flatting a couple of minutes down. No spare tubes, no patches, ghetto tubeless wouldn’t hold due to the sidewall tear in my cross mark… I had to walk out. My first flat in over 3 years. Tube, a four letter word. At least now I have a really good reason to buy a new Larsen TT UST.
Pass Mountain VholdR Footage
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Matt, yes, video footage of all trails will be nice…it gives me a new reason to get out and ride – and ride faster… no one likes slow video footage…
Suave- let’s just hope you turf it good for the camera!
I think I’m just as excited as you are. Your trail reviews/descriptions, gps tracks and picutres were great as it were. Now we get video footage as well…sweet!
That is awesome! Now you can get some sweet footage of me in front of you turfing it at Interbike!
Sam’s vids rock. No way I’m competing with him. Until I get a superpowered computer with enough juice to edit HD, I’ll be posting raw footage only. Thanks for the link to Darren’s helmetcam post. Good info there.
now you can compete with U2metoo on videos. He’s hard to beat though, with music and all the time he puts into them. i like the graphs and stats. The gps stuff is awesome. I need to get one. I can get by with video with something like darren created for now.
http://darrensrides.blogspot.com/2009/08/helmet-cams.html