Up before dawn Saturday for 15 miles of awesome MUni at Backbone trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. Awesome views with 7.3 miles of continuous climbing and about 2,000 feet elevation gain. Then back down woo! To parahrase Pick Floyd, I was "UNcomfortably Numb" after the long, physically demanding ride! :o
I thought this time, for one last POV idea, Iād try mounting my camcorder directly to the Muni frame, specifically, the seat tube/post. I used a super wide angle lens to get as much in view as possible. Getting the camera safely and securely attached was a challenge, not to mention keeping it out of my way while pedaling! Interesting result and it really puts the viewer in the riderās seat!
Nice old tunes. Iām Always eager to see a new Unigeezer clip
The Bad:
It gets a bit redundate watching a tire go round, and your legs go up and Down. You really donāt get much of a idea what the trail is really like
The Ugly:
CLEAN UP that kitchen,
On another noteā¦I thought I was the only one that kept his camelbacks in the fridge. I do keep mine in a garage refridge, not the one in the main kitchen. My wife would blow a gasket if I did.
Yeah Iām with you on count 2 & 3! And I really need to hire a house cleaner lol! And yeah, I always try to put lots of variety in my [usual] vids, but this was really just something to try mostly as a visual experiment. I really contemplated whether to make a video from this footage at all, since I had a total of about 30 minutes of this pov stuff. Not much variety in that lol, so I whittled it down by a huge margin, and a little still goes a long way.
From here on Iām back to more familiar territory.
Yeah me too thatās why I went with the fist one, even though the Beatles are awesome, it just didnāt fit as well. But some may still prefer it to the first one-or hate both, haha, but thatās ok too. Everybodyās different, but thatās what makes the world go 'round!
Yeah, itās to block the sun. I tend to get a bad burn on my neck, even with sunblock, so it helps.
Interesting perspective. I agree with Enoch on the redundant part, but I still enjoyed watching it as itās not something that Iāve seen done before on a MUni.
Question thoughā¦ just how buggered are you after these longer rides (seeing the last piece in your car) ? I find that if I do say a 3hr MUni ride Iām so tired I need to sleep for a few hours in the afternoon after the morningās ride. My heart rate averages around 140bpm for the 3 hours.
Thanks yeah I thought the perspective would be interesting. This is the longest and consistently steepest MUni ride Iāve done to date, and it definitely pushed me to my total limit. I routinely ride 9 miles with elevation gains of 1,500-1,700 feet, but usually the uphill climb is fairly steep, but gradual, with the steepest sections coming only in the last mile.
I did have a lot of discomfort on my sit bones from this ride for the first time, and it continued for a good 12 hours after the ride! I had never really experienced this pain from any MUni ride before. Anyway, I look forward to this ride again soon, and below is my garmin gps graph showing the elvation and distance, although I accidentally turned it off for about a mile, so it only shows a total of 14 miles.
Quite impressive Terry. I would love to use a GPS to track the route and elevation that I ride. Although itās probably nowhere near what youāre currently doing
Did a ride last night, was around 12kmās (about 7.5 miles) ā¦ half of which was straight up the side of the mountain.
IMO the camera is too much āin the seatā. Gives me the feeling like youāre sitting on my head:p:( Iād mount it lower or zoom it in a bit.
I like it, a bit better than the sequal, āEldestā. (I got them both in paperback at a used bookstore for like $3 each) The third of the trillogy is coming out Sept. 30 (hardcover).
I wish I could ride all the way up I did end walk some of it, probably about 1km. In the area I go riding weāre lucky enough to have jeep track that goes around the forest and up the mountain, so riding it is just physically tough. But then I take all the single tracks on the way down.
Whereās Manitoba St. Malo? In Canada right? Sounds like a beautiful place to ride for sure!
