I’ve not written much recently, mainly because not much has happened! Today, however, stuff did happen, so here I am!

As you may know from my blog entry on 23 September 2008 entitled An enjoyable pair of weekends!, at the Matchless‘ MOT at the beginning of July this year (3.5 months ago), the odometer on the bike read 31666 miles. When I got home from my ride today, it read 32668, meaning I’ve now ridden just over 1,000 miles!

What a milestone!

I have also recently obtained my self-bought early Christmas present – a bike cam! This small video camera can be stuck anywhere (car bonnet, car ceiling, bike handlebars, crash helmet etc…) by using the included handlebar mount and universal sticky mounts and cable ties etc… so I did my first test run with the camera today to see how it all works.

It didn’t go completely to plan, as I had intended to video an entire 20 mile run, but I accidentally hit the stop button while putting the recording device back into my pocket, so I ended up recording none of it! I did, however, still have the bit that I recorded going from my initial starting point to the beginning of the route, so I’ve edited it accordingly and put it online, both on Youtube and Mongeese Videos:

- Matchless Classic Motorcycle Ride – Mongeese Videos
- Matchless Classic Motorcycle Ride – Youtube

The sound quality, as I’m sure you will notice, is pretty awful – this is mainly because I haven’t found a sensible place to put the microphone yet – I had it sticking out the top of my pocket this time, hence the wind noise, but I will try putting it in the pocket next time to hopefully reduce wind noise, but still capture the engine noise!

The camera, by the way, was bought from Board-Cams for the price of £129.99. I have the “Board-Cams 520 Helmet Camera & Personal Media Player“.

Anyway, that’s it for this time… so until next time, goodbye!

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