FZR1000 The Black Spur (Australia) Video

koma · Post by **koma** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:55 am

Hi guys & gals,

Well i finally got around to rigging up a rather ghetto recording system to my tank consisting of a Nokia 6280, with some elabourate electrical tape to hold it in place. Next time i might come prepared instead of the spur of the moment 'hey, i wonder if...'.

The Black Spur for those who know nothing of it is one section of the lap that takes you from Marysville to Healesville in Victoria's mountainous regions (near Lake Mountain). It's actually 2 sections... the section you'll see in the video's and then a denser forest section which isn't so friendly in the middle of winter (slimy, wet, slippery roads). The roads were still quite damp so i didn't really get to wind it out as much as i enjoy in the middle of summer... but still had a fun afternoon doing a couple of passes.

Now that i've sussed out a recording system i'll have to get some clips of my other riding haunts like the Great Ocean Road, Reefton Spur & King Lake. I've already got a few mates who are keen to get in on the action now they've seen the fun and games...

The Black Spur - FZR1000 - YouTube
The Black Spur 2 [return pass] - FZR1000 - YouTube

Enjoy.

YZFRob · Post by **YZFRob** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:51 pm

Is that the hwy that runs near Mount Juliet nw of Healesville?

dereku · Post by **dereku** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:19 pm

I don't know how you didn't get hurt...you were on the wrong side of the road the whole time!

koma · Post by **koma** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:24 pm

YZFRob wrote:Is that the hwy that runs near Mount Juliet nw of Healesville?

Mount Juliet i'm not sure about... but it's North West from Healesville and South West from Marysville. It's a spectacular road either way.

dereku wrote:I don't know how you didn't get hurt...you were on the wrong side of the road the whole time!

LOL

Yeah yeah, and i say the same every time i watch a RHS US/Canadian video.

YZFRob · Post by **YZFRob** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:38 pm

Yea its south a bit from the hwy that goes between healeville and marysville closer to healeville. I dont remember if I've been on that road (its been 16 yrs since I lived in Clayton). But I have taken my old Falcon on teh GOR many, many times.

koma · Post by **koma** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:48 pm

Well i'm heading down the GOR on Saturday with a decent sized group of riders (Netrider), so i'll see if i can get some good footage from another one of my favourite sets of twisties from Lorne to Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road. Last time i did it i timed myself at approximately 22 minutes, but that was riding rather enthusiastically.

YZFRob · Post by **YZFRob** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:31 pm

Wish I could be there riding with ya. Never rode a bike on the GOR (hell didnt learn to ride a motorcycle until I was in the states.

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Yoniboi · Post by **Yoniboi** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:26 am

Koma,

that's one of the best on-board recordings I've ever seen, and the road's a treat. How did you mount the camera?

Smooth riding too

John

koma · Post by **koma** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:54 am

Yoniboi wrote:Koma,

that's one of the best on-board recordings I've ever seen, and the road's a treat. How did you mount the camera?

Smooth riding too

John

Everyone laughs when i tell them how i recorded it - but what the heck.
It's filmed on a Nokia 6280 mobile phone, with the phone electrical taped into a pouch, then the pouch suspended between the tank stay (the Y shaped bit that the tank bolts onto).

I went down the Great Ocean Road yesterday and tried to get some more footage, but mounted it in a slightly different way that appears not to have worked as well. It seems whenever there is vibrations going directly into the phone/camera then it does that wobble thing that can be seen in the first 40 seconds in the first Black Spur clip. The footage still came out alright, and the sound is still bloody good... but not quite up to the quality of the other ones.

Speaking of quality, those video's have been downsampled for YouTube. In the originals i pulled off the phone they're 640x480 @ 25fps - with enough detail to clearly read the numbers off the speedo and tacho, aswell as the numbers off passing road signs.

I'm actually going to build up a proper mounting system sometime this week, so i'll take some photos and post results of that.

Yoniboi · Post by **Yoniboi** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:34 am

That's great, I'll give it a go!!

Cheers,

John

Yamaman · Post by **Yamaman** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:50 am

great ride and one of the clearest videos I've seen. Well done. Most seem to break up once the rpm picks up.

We've got some good rides here in Qld too, except the cops seem to have figured them out so they've spoilt the fun.
There's about a 250km ride through the mountain ranges of the Brisbane Valley, including Mt Glorious. There's some real tricky stuff though that I'm still to get used to. I'm still not anywhere near as confident in the corners on the 1000 as I was on the 250. A lot of diminishing radius corners and a few areas where rocks can fall onto the edges of the road. Best to learn the road before you push too hard - the several memorial helmets hanging off fence posts along the ride are testiment to that. But excellent corners and some good straights in between.

I was actually going for a run in my car through Binna Burra mountain (down near the Gold Coast) actually gave chase to a late model GSXR1000 and I think a CBR600. They passed me when I was stuck behind another car, so I thought what the hell I'll see how I go on 4 wheels!! They actually couldn't shake me for the first 5 minutes or so and then the front brakes on the car turned into mush and I had to back off. We were hooking in too, I'm surprised how well the trusty V8 Commodore held on