I did this MTB video in a local trail with some friends several years ago. If you have any videos let's see them :)
Fun Trail Video
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I did this MTB video in a local trail with some friends several years ago. If you have any videos let's see them :)
Fun Trail Video
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Whoa! Here I am sitting here looking on the right side...seeing that huge drop freaks me out dude!!
This gotta be for more experienced MTB'rs!
Love it....and it was sad to see it end! :)
There is a video clip on the 'Net of my partner and I cycling.
But we didn't know we were being filmed. That's ok. It's on a public bike route in Vancouver. The clip exists as a file and must be downloaded.
It was shot in around 2004 or earlier.
Looks like a really enjoyable trail! It's a 4 minute ride and you only pedaled 5 times! A technical ride that looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing.
That was a perfect song for that trail! The few times I've put music on my videos I've tried to find the perfect song. I may have actually succeeded on this video of me descending Donner Pass Road. It was recorded from the moonroof of my friend's Honda Ridgeline, so I added music since it was 100% wind noise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdbwxY3y-Sk
Here's one from my helmet cam of a conversation mishap that happened when I caught up to a couple of cyclists on a climb.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA_TUThZ-Bg
I always think of James Brown's "I Feel Good" when I am riding something difficult.
luv2climb, With those descending skills your TE name should be changed to luv2desdend :) That is an awesome and beautiful downhill!
Thank you. :) I never thought of myself as a good descender or climber, but I LOVE climbing and the fun descents afterwards! :D
I'm working on the video of today's climb. It was a tough one! I got a working ContourHD helmet cam, so this time I'll be able to show you the scenery I saw while climbing.
OK, here's today's climb up Slug Gulch Road in El Dorado County, CA. I measured lots of grades in the teens. As usual the Garmin went nuts and showed grades that don't even exist on paved roads, so I'm going to guess that the actual max grade on this climb was 16% or 17%.
This video has GPS data overlay so you can see the speed (inaccurate at times due to foliage interfering with satellite signals), heart rate, distance, altitude, and percent grade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Q8R-t_6D0
You just have all those awesome climbs to do :eek: I bet that is a fun dowhill. I have video we did on the road I'll post it soon.
ohohohohohoh, where is this because I wanna go ride that trail!!!!! Ok, I still have a long way to go in the skills department but this looks like serious fun! How close were you to the end/bottom at the end of the video? What was the climb like to the top or did you start at the top? Inquiring minds want to know :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
I try to find a new climb every week. Now I've just about covered all of El Dorado and Placer counties, but I'll dig a little deeper and see if I can find a new road for this weekend. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
The descent was bumpy in places, with some blind corners, so I couldn't go as fast as I wanted to. It was somewhat fun.
Is called ATT (Anderson) and is in San Diego's East County. We had to cut a good piece of the top and another good part of the bottom from the video as it was going to be quite long. For the video we climbed the same way as the descend, although there is a way to do a car shuttle we like climbing it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Ps. Just keep riding you MTB and you'll get the skills. Remember practice makes perfect ;)
Sweet, and I've a sister in San Diego that I haven't seen in many years :cool: Personally I would prefer to climb it on the bike as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
OMG. Girl you are very very brave. I just don't have any words to say about such a ride. Amazing what you all do with 2 wheels.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
OMG. Girl you are very very brave. I just don't have any words to say about such a ride. Amazing what you all do with 2 wheels.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
I also really like exploring new climbs :) But I've done all the major climbs around here several times.Quote:
Originally Posted by luv2climb
Great when you come and visit I'll take you to ATT ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Thank you. Everybody can do it with a little practice :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tytbody
WOW! EEK! I can't imagine doing that. The edge drops scare me. Michigan is flat compared to this. You are a brave lady :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
It took me a long time before I could stop looking at the sides of the cliff on rides like this :eek: The video looks worst than it is anyways ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bike Writer
While watching the video I noted that there seemed to be a good amount of growth between the trail and actual edge - I would find that comforting :) We certainly don't have trails with THIS kind of exposure in central Indiana, but am getting better at focusing on the trail itself and ignoring what isn't the trail.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
At some point are you able to enjoy the scenery and still focus on the trail/obstacles? I assume the answer is yes :cool:
HOW can you if you might hit a rock? or even a branch.. ?????
You do get better at looking around, but still need to keep the focus on the trail :) What does happen is that you start enjoying the trail more as you get more relaxed. One of the secrets is to look ahead, pick your line and not concentrate on the stuff that is already under your wheels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
I am working on this now :cool: Body awareness seems to be my biggest challenge right now, but that will come with more practice...and my trainer has already changed my workouts after our ride this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
side tangent - every time I see this thread I think it says "post a video of you while crying". Not sure what that says about me though. :)
I'm always taking the video, so I only have video of my family while they are cycling. Now crying, that I could get you some footage of. :D
we made a video. I have to figure out how to share it. It's just a casual ride :)
Cool :) You can use Vimeo.com just make a free account, upload your video and place the link here ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by tytbody
i'm frustrated all ready trying to change my avatar. I've made it 1" and it still will not show up correctly. The one that is appearing, I've deleated it and it still shows up. I don't get it. I have a vimeo account but never used it.
i have youtube but can't figure out how to get it uploaded. my husband put it on a DVD for me but I can't figure how to save it in my computer. And it's a mac. Sure, should do everything but spit 100 dollar bills. Ya right.
Bellissima, great video. Where is this trail? I also live in southern CA.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
Great! Is Anderson Truck Trail in Alpine, just down the road from San Diego :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ladyicon
Here's yesterday's climbs. I managed to find four roads in Folsom and El Dorado Hills that I haven't shown yet. I had to use the footage from the handlebar-mounted Kodak Playsport because of an incorrect angle on the Contour's helmet mount. It was too high and pointed to one side, which caused almost all the footage to be useless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V8aAyAhb5Q
Here's the only footage from the Contour that was viewable. This is me living up to my username by climbing a 100% grade-of the artificial rock type. :p:D This was at the Folsom Cyclebration cycling expo in Folsom City Park.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FyUksY-I0
I can finally post to this thread! I would never have expected this to be the first video of me riding, but here I am trying downhill for the first time (I'm the middle one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_e_ZqqLf44
It was an absolute blast! 6 women friends, all beginners. My dh was there too with a bunch of his friends, all beginners there too. The video is pretty un-exciting, of an easy stretch, but it was all I could convince my dh to stop and get of us. He won the camera tug-of-war.
He says I look like I'm riding a million miles an hour all the time, I say it's because sooner or later I will be :D
@luv2climb, Even with the "slower bike" you are passing riders! At least you had a backup camera. I remember one time when we climbed this really long technical hill in order to film the downhill. But when we got to the bottom we noticed that the camera died at the begining of the video :eek:
@lph You do look fast ;) Were was this video made?
Ooh, that would be frustrating to find out you lost all your great footage! :mad: I started running two cameras ever since I got the Contour. I didn't trust it, especially the first one that ended up being defective and had to be exchanged. The current one works great, but the backup camera is still a good idea due to circumstances like the incorrect camera angle on Saturday's ride.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
Yeah, that first climb I seemed to be going faster, over 10 mph on a 5% grade. The other climbs were more than twice as steep, so speeds were probably 4-5 mph.
lph, that looks like a fun downhill! I'd like to climb and descend that! :D
Here's something I posted to my Facebook profile back during the summer. This is pretty typical of the riding I do. I think I have the permissions set right for everyone to view it.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2241366597101
Nope, it's saying I have to log in.Quote:
Originally Posted by HillSlugger
Humph! I set the permission to public, I don't seem to have the file on my computer right now, and I won't be back home until Sunday :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by luv2climb
HillSlugger, I saw the video (logged in my facebook) I like the way it was taken with the wheel always turning, it gives a cool perspective :)
The camera is clamped to my drops. I tried moving it to a different place, but without the fixed reference point of the wheel, it wasn't at all interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by bellissima
99% of my riding is commuting. I put this one together to share at work about why I ride. There are a few more, which are mostly getting use to the VIO POV set up.
http://www.vimeo.com/28803665
Interesting view. WHere was the camera mounted?Quote:
Originally Posted by radacrider