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7500 miles across America on a Honda Rebel 250

OK. Now I’m really upset. This guy is 23 years of age, and he already did a US trip on a Honda Rebel 250.

Story and pictures over here.

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Oregon Scientific ATC 2K Helmet Cam

Guys, as I promised, I’m getting ready to make some movies from my trips. I went to a lot of trouble to get an Oregon Scientific ATC 2K Helmet Cam - it was not available in Romania and I had to arrange that one of my office colleagues brought it from USA while coming back from a conference.

Now, despite some feedback from youtube, I’ve did a couple of tests and I’m satisfied with the video quality. The only thing that troubles me is how to actually mount it on the helmet. It got a lot of mounting options - Velcro , fixed mounting on the handlebar, rubber strip etc, but due to my fairing it doesn’t seem to fit anywhere on my bike in a way to actually film the road.

Also found out that is quite hard to do the filming - while on my normal miniDV camera is quite is because you can see in the viewer what you are filming, here is quite hard to aim precisely at what you want to capture. You film now, and see the results at home.

So if you have any tips on mounting the camera on the helmet - drop me a line, I’m quite frustrated. I can send you pictures and anything to show you what I’ve got. To make matters even worse, I can see now a lot of youtube tutorials on how mo make a helmet cam from an ordinary camera. Did I just spent 100 bucks for nothing???

HELP!!!!

Later edit

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I just found this video:

Now how on Earth I’m supposed to get on of these mounting systems?

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Trip to Transfagarasan - the “Highway to the sky”

I dedicate this post to the people that died building the Transfaragasan road.

Transfaragasan is definetively the most famous road in Romania. Built in the communist era, the road was more a way to show to the World the power of the Communist society than having an economical reason. The road climbs 2034 m and it’s so difficult that it’s only open around 3-4 months a year.

So let’s see how Transfagarasan looks on a Honda CBF600s:

First, you should get to the Vidraru lake. You climb a lot, but actually you are at the base of the mountain.

Transfaragarasan2008 (batch 1)