World Champs Night Racing

OldCrank · *by **OldCrank** on Thu 25/Jun/09 10:49pm*

Night racing at it's finest ( http://www.bluedogevents.co.nz).
1200 Lumens of helmet light
one pinhole security lipstick camera
one Panasonic Camcorder
a whole lot of batteries and wires, all wedged into a small backpack.

radiusq · *by **radiusq** on Fri 26/Jun/09 12:31am*

Good stuff. That's a good setup you have there. Out of curiosity, what ballpark time did you get?

rochie · *by **rochie** on Fri 26/Jun/09 5:17am*

Excellent vid. Always looks so slow and relaxed on film, seems a lot more intense and chaotic when you're racing!

OldCrank · *by **OldCrank** on Fri 26/Jun/09 7:01am*

radiusq wrote:Out of curiosity, what ballpark time did you get?

I'm not really pushing myself during this series, so that was just under 55 minutes.

It's not quite so hectic down the back of the field

I was pretty happy with the video output, considering it's night time and completely
dark out there. I'm lucky that the lipstick cam is so sensitive.

LittleMissBikeRider · *by **LittleMissBikeRider** on Fri 26/Jun/09 9:13am*

My 30seconds of fame!

Does look SO SLOW! Although you see me passing someone on a climb which is great.

kender · *by **kender** on Sat 27/Jun/09 10:44pm*

Thanks for posting that great vid.
Quite a few people I know seem to think that I'm mad for racing round a forest at nighttime, and it's good to be able to show them vids like this and watch their faces :lol:

RHR_Rob · *by **RHR_Rob** on Tue 14/Jul/09 3:24pm*

The further back in pack you get the bigger the rucksaks get! maybe i will turn up with a bob trailer and genny with some seriously big lights....

OldCrank · *by **OldCrank** on Tue 14/Jul/09 9:06pm*

RHR_Rob wrote:The further back in pack you get the bigger the rucksaks get! maybe i will turn up with a bob trailer and genny with some seriously big lights....

That's cos we're so slow down the back that we might have to camp out for the night ....

I'm just finishing off the Final race video, it should be ready in about an hour or so - it's a bit more exciting than this one.

RHR_Rob · *by **RHR_Rob** on Tue 14/Jul/09 10:34pm*

Your not allowed to camp in the forrest :sly:

so complete your (4hr) solo lap

OldCrank · *by **OldCrank** on Wed 15/Jul/09 12:06pm*

Ok, here's the final race in the series. We attached the Helmet Cam to Rob Soothill's helmet (Number 1 Vet 2 man) - placement was a bit of a guess, that's why some of the footage is down a bit. Audio was left alone with no music track.
It was difficult to squeeze a whole race into a file size that's uploadable, so the framerate is a bit lower than I would have liked.

Anyway here's Rob in action - you'll notice some of his dodgy lines and overtaking moves :sly: