Can anyone help with some suggestions for mounting the camera on the side of a motorcycle helmet so it can't be knocked off. Specifically, it is being used on a helmet for national pro level enduro racing and the problem is that even with duct tape, it has been peeled off the helmet where it holds on with the velcro circle. The riding is often in very tight terrain around and between trees where branches can swipe the camera and have pulled it right out of the place the velcro circle holds it to the helmet.
Has anyone tried gluing the whole thing to the helmet and downloading to the computer with the helmet still attached? Any suggestions are welcome - no matter how crazy they sound - if they might work. The racer can't be worrying about the camera or even thinking about it. (The tether saved the camera from being lost but if you are trying to make time, you can't stop to put it back on the helmet or into your backpack.)
Looking forward to some suggestions!
My money is attching it to the top of bottom of the visor. When we duck it usualy is visor down and we hit the top of our head or the sides of our helmet. Ive never lost a visor racing, and ive gone from green novice to top intermediate.
If your hitting small branches and such it's probably better that the camera come off. Otherwise it's going to twist you head and possibly cause an injury/crash.
kanadian probably has the right idea, put it under a visor where it'll be less likely to be struck.
I've got a how-to on flipup helmets but I don't think it applies to your style of riding.
http://vholdr.com/video/mounti...
What I have done is mounted the camera with a round mount to the underside of my helmet with the stick pad and zip ties. I did have to shim the rear of the mount up to help raise the front of the camera to keep it from pointing at the ground, and take the center out of the mount to expose the velcro area inside and drill 4 holes 1 on each corner of the velcro and attach 2 zip ties or more as needed then place the center back in the base and repeat the drill ing of the outer ring 2 or more times just small enough to fit a zip tie through, dont forget to attach the lanyerd to the visor on the helmet. It did take me abit of set up but after that your all set you should have no problem protecting it from trees and such, the next thing I'll be working on is a form of tear offs or the roll off for the lens to help with the picture. I have used it on Hare Scrambles and for Mx racing and have just started to post my videos.
What I have done is mounted the camera with a round mount to the underside of my helmet with the stick pad and zip ties. I did have to shim the rear of the mount up to help raise the front of the camera to keep it from pointing at the ground, and take the center out of the mount to expose the velcro area inside and drill 4 holes 1 on each corner of the velcro and attach 2 zip ties or more as needed then place the center back in the base and repeat the drill ing of the outer ring 2 or more times just small enough to fit a zip tie through, dont forget to attach the lanyerd to the visor on the helmet. It did take me abit of set up but after that your all set you should have no problem protecting it from trees and such, the next thing I'll be working on is a form of tear offs or the roll off for the lens to help with the picture. I have used it on Hare Scrambles and for Mx racing and have just started to post my videos.
I wanted my camera mount to STAY ON a particular helmet so I used PC-11 waterproof epoxy. You can ride with it the next day and in 7 days you would have to saw it off. I even used it under the center rail mounting piece instead of relying on the velcro snap in system that comes with it. I used oops or goof off and got off all the adhesive, peeled off the velcro and oops it then I sanded the clearcoat off the helmet where I wanted to mount it and I sanded the bottom of the helmet mount and inside where the center piece sits. Cleaned everything with alcohol. Then I filled the center piece with PC-11, - snapped it in - smeared pc-11 on the bottom - placed it on the helmet and used Q-tips with alcohol to clean up around it. You have 30 working minutes once you have mixed the epoxy. It dries white so if that bothers you then once it has cured you can cover the white with black automotive silicone. When I put this camera on my helmet it is ON and a horse couldn't kick it off.