http://www.bikinggadgets.com Biking Gadgets Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I took my Panasonic SDR10 helmet camera to Sun Valley, Idaho and made 5 videos.  Here are two of them.  Not bad for a $200 camcorder strapped to a helmet. Full downloads are about 140mb. The biggest issue with the videos is the interlacing. When playing the high quality video on ... http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2008/09/28/new-helmet-camera-videos/ Here are two sample videos that I took with my new helmet camera.  The video is pretty good for a $230 camcorder.  The image stabilization works well unless I'm in some real rocky stuff.  I put a headlamp on the right side as a weight.  The lamp is great because you ... http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2008/02/12/helmet-cameras-for-mountain-biking-part-2/ There's no better way to share your experience bombing down a trail then to have actual video footage of it to show your friends.  Helmet cameras have become very popular since camcorders and lenses have shrunk in size. I have been creating helmet cameras since 2001 and the one thing I've ... http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2008/02/07/helmet-cameras-for-mountain-biking/ I never liked the way the CamelBak reservoir dryer worked.  It always seemed to leave a tiny bit of water at the bottom.  We usually dry our cups and glasses upside down, so I thought why not do it with the reservoir. Here's a better way to dry your reservoir.  Use a ... http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2008/01/25/a-better-to-dry-your-camelbak-bladder-reservoir/ Sometimes during our mountaing biking trips across the country there may be a situation where you will have to leave your brand new bike inside the car.  We've come across this situation a few times where the hotel would not let us bring our bikes inside our rooms.  At first our ... http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2008/01/15/portable-security-system-for-your-biking-vacations/ How many times have you gotten up from the ground after a short rest and wondered, "Why is there a puddle of water on the ground?"  Hopefully it wasn't because of your uncontrollable bladder.  Most times it was likely due to your Camelbak laying on top of your bite valve.  While ... http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2008/01/15/camelbak-ergo-hydrolock/ One of my favorite downhill videos.  Don't have too much information about it other than the original youtube poster got it from GoHuckYourself.com. http://www.bikinggadgets.com/2007/12/01/downhill-mountain-biking-video/