Here's a video of my ride on the Dragon's Tail this weekend

[JTidwell44]

http://youtu.be/5cNc1RbgKgw

 

[CaptainKyle]

Nice video one day I am gonna get a camera on my bike but I have been saying that forever

 

[Tex85]

Still itching to do this ride, looks like a good time was had by all.

 

[COP RUNNER]

i AWESOME ! .. I MISS RIDES LIKE THAT !

 

[ninjaneer]

jealous! you used a jvc adixxion? what made you choose it over its competitors? how'dya mount it? the ride's been on my bucket list for the past couple of years now.

 

[JTidwell44]

jealous! you used a jvc adixxion? what made you choose it over its competitors? how'dya mount it? the ride's been on my bucket list for the past couple of years now.

I had been debating between the JVC and the GoPro but when I went to BestBuy they had a JVC that was an open box item marked down from $299 to $169. So that pretty much made my mind up for me. Plus you can view your videos off the LCD screen on the JVC but you have to purchase a bac pac viewer for the GoPro.

The Only issue I have with the JVC is the wind noise you get off the mic. I am currently toying with different methods to reduce the noise. As of the moment I have a piece of tape over the mic which works pretty well. It reduces the wind noise but still picks up audio.

As far as riding the Dragon's tail, I highly recommend putting that on your bucket list. We made a 4 day trip out of it and probably averaged about 6hrs of riding each day.unk: Most of the roads are in very good condition, LOTS of curves, and you can't beat a ride through the mountains. I've got several pictures of the trip that I'll try to post up later.

 

[JTidwell44]

Oh and I mounted the JVC on the handle bars. JVC sells a handle bar mount but all BestBuy had in stock was a suction cup mount and a roll bar mount. Which the roll bar mount worked just fine on the handle bars and I also mounted in on the engine guard which was a pretty cool angle for some video footage. The camera also comes with 2 or 3 sticky mounts that you can put on your helmet. I'll post some pics of the camera on the bike so you can see how I mounted it and I'll post another video with the camera mounted on the engine guard.

 

[JTidwell44]

Here are some pics of the camera

 

[JTidwell44]

Engine guard mount

 

[jfeagins]

Nice video. Thank you for sharing.

The gal in the office across from mine asked me if I was watching another ride video - guess I was getting into those corners a little bit. lol

Wish I could make it to the Dragon area more often.

 

[JTidwell44]

Here's the video with the camera mounted on the engine guard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5PIqEQtM_Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[XXXMAX]

Mark Hickman took a video of me going thru the Dragon. You tube: Vmax run thru the Dragon 2012.
This years meet is the weekend of Sept. 13th at Deals Gap. Come on to the event we have a ball every year. Found some new roads to ride on last year. We burnt them up too.
That JVC does good.