Possegal--good we can commiserate together on the SNAFU's of filming from a moving bike. My first video was of sky only. I had accidentally bumped the camera when I started it.

For the mounting, I bought 2 Ultrapods ($16 each at camera store, a bit cheaper online.) They strap very easily with velcro to a rack but it's best to pad them with about a half-inch sheet of spongy foam to absorb vibrations. They have an articulating head so the angles can be adjusted to level easily. Some people, the anal retentives, suggest buying a level to get the leveling precise but really now, how much of the time is your bike perfectly level while it's moving. Besides, you learn to level by eye and there's always the software that you can tweak to level it out. Actually I was surprised how forgiving the video is. If you are anywhere close to level, the viewer's eye accepts it and adjusts to it.

Like any recording device, the camcorder will pick up high range sounds more strongly than low and midrange sounds. Even the shifting of the bike can sound like a train roaring by for an instant. Some of this can be adjusted with audio tweaking but you'll find that you end up deleting the natural sounds in many segments because they are so distracting.

I shot film in a restaurant and the sounds of the combined voices and clattering dishes was deafening while a person standing next to me speaking in a alto type voice was nearly inaudible.

You can't get rid of all vibrations without going to a really expensive and/or complicated setup. They way I have it, you can whip the cameras off and on the rack in seconds. Currently I leave the ultrapods in place on the rack and attach the cameras when I'm ready to film.

The funniest video I've shot was riding over a loose gravel road. 999.9 on the Richter scale vibrations. And the sound of the gravel is deafening.

You'll find you need to shoot a lot of film and do heavy cutting and splicing. It's also good to film anchor point backgrounds with the bike not moving that helps to keep the viewer from getting seasick.

Unless you buy a very good camcorder ($700 to $2000 range) the quality of the video produced is limited in size. Who wants to risk a really expensive and bulky heavy camcorder on a bike? So you settle for less clarity with a smaller cheaper camcorder that is quite passable for the Youtube type screen size. You loose detail even on still shots when blown up to full computer screen mode.

Finally after you've spent hours or days tweaking a video then you have convert it to a flv file which takes me about 15 minutes on a very fast computer. But your not done yet. Then you upload it to a file-hosting site (I have a Pro account with Photobucket) and that takes another 15 minutes of upload time for a 4 minute video.

So naturally if you find a typo in your text or something else that needs to be edited, you tend to ignore them rather than face all that converting and uploading time again.

It's a sickness really. I see you have the virus too and will, like me, be spending 16 hours or so cutting, splicing, adding audio, and tweaking a mere 4 minute video. But what a hoot it is.