Go Pro HD – Dawn Time Lapse – I decided that seeing as the weather of late has been awful and i have captured nothing good on my rides i would make a time lapse and test out some of the Go Pro HD’s other less noticeable features. At 4AM i went to bed and turned the Go Pro on, setting it to take a picture every 10 seconds. It took 1380 pictures over the course of nearly 4 hours and captured what i was looking for pretty well for a first attempt. Here is the finished video:
I did promise it so i thought that i’d finally get my ass in gear to create the worst video known to man kind. It is a collection of short clips and images from my recent trip to Portugal. It serves better as a test for the Enova HD camera that i purchased last July. I bought it for about £50 ($70) and i think it is pretty good for what it is!
I’ve not posted a written article for a while so I thought I’d go ahead and update you all about what’s happening. I’ve basically been riding around with the Go Pro rolling all the time but to be honest all of my rides have been pretty mundane as of late. Hopefully I’ll be going for a blast tomorrow so if that works out then I should get some nice footage. I have snippets here and there of good stuff which I’ll eventually make into a compilation after a while as well.
I did get some new gloves the other day and I’ve done a photo shoot haha. Pretty amateurish as I did it myself but nevertheless. Here are some of the images:
The gloves look and feel amazing, I typically like the shit kicker look haha. Besides this my life has been pretty slow paced as of recent, I’ve ordered a 1TB hard rive just this minute and my 32GB SD Card should arrive tomorrow. Apart from this I’m going to a wheelie competition this Saturday and I have a chance at winning a GSXR 750 or a scorpion exhaust for my bike (something high up on my list). See you guys next time and remember to subscribe to me on YouTube.
At the moment I’m just waiting on the Go Pro HD to arrive which means that I’ve not really got an awful lot to talk about or to try and whisk into a topic. I’ll quickly go over what I’ve done recently and then talk about the modifications I want to do to the Hornet in the future. Tonight I’ve been to a car/bike show in Hope, Derbyshire and there were tons of nice bikes and cars. Loads of old BSA’s, Triumphs and cruisers but the sport bike and street bike scene were desperately under represented! Where were you guys!? Apart from Lamborghini’s, Aston Martins and loads of old cars there was also a tank there which seemed to be attracting quite a bit of attention.
Modifications:
To get onto the real topic of this article I’ll begin here. I have a Honda Hornet 600 from 2002 which was slightly modified when I bought it a few months ago. Seeing as it is such a fun bike I’ve decided that I want to modify it to a street fighter kind of level. I don’t want to go all out with a custom paint job and everything as it is the bike I use everyday in all weather to commute on, so there’s no real point in spending thousands of pounds on chrome work and flashy points. I simply want a good everyday bike which looks unique, is fun and won’t get damaged easily.
Above is a picture of the bike currently. I don’t mind it as it is but there are a few things I want to change. The bike has the following modifications currently:
Belly-pan
Rear Hugger
Radiator Guard
Fender Extender
Tail Tidy
Small Arrow Indicators/Signals
Colour Coded Side Panel
Wheel stripes
Crash Bungs/Frame Sliders
Bar End Protectors
The modifications I want to add to it are as follows:
Slip-on Exhaust (Preferably Beowulf Stubby)
Bar end Mirrors/some other mirrors
Twin “Dominator” Headlights
Stunt Grips
Clear LED Tail light
Blue Anodised Renthal Bars
K & N Air Filter
As you can see I don’t have far to go before the end product. Almost all of these modifications make the bike more practical as well as improving looks. If I had the cash I’d also like to strap a big ass turbo kit to it but that will have to wait haha. I’ve really grown attached to this bike as it is just about the perfect all rounder for my needs. I’d like a ZX10r, I’d like a KTM Supermoto but all of these bikes serve a specific purpose. I need to choose a bike which will allow me to do everything; regularly commute 100 miles (200 return), ride everyday to pick up food, be a blast on weekends. All of this in all weathers. It’s a lot to ask of a bike and I’m fairly confident I chose the best one for the task. The Hornet is “me” and I’m glad. In an ideal world I wouldn’t need this bike – I could have my ZX10, Supermoto, and tourer, but the world is not ideal and the Hornet makes my irrational world a little more perfect…
Wow, where did that come from haha. Go Pro HD soon my friends! Then you won’t have to put up with my ramblings that I write at 3 AM.
Update: I sold the Canon and am looking for a Go Pro HD to buy now. Videos shortly my friend!
You probably don’t know but a couple of years back I created a website to oversee all of my sites – like a business reception area. The site was called Outlet Media and had the name www.outletmedia.net. After I initially created the site I left it as I had scrapped one of my ideas I would implement on it. My idea was to create a hub – or Media Outlet if you will, which would be designed so that users could sign up and publish their own media, whatever it may be. You see, the Internet is very biased nowadays and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to cultivate a following or even have 10 views a day on your site. The idea was to help smaller producers of high quality media get noticed – it never really took off as the site never really attracted as many visitors as I would have liked, so I simply converted it into a business and stuck all of my websites under the Outlet Media name.
Skip ahead a few years and we are here. Outlet Media still remains but is sat there gathering virtual dust. I want to change that and have decided to keep the business aspect of the site but also provide Internet marketing strategies. My current plan is to provide online marketing strategies and advice to large companies or anyone really. I know already that I could get a few large companies interested so am not that worried about that. Even if the whole thing fails it’s not that much of a big deal anyway as I don’t really have anything to lose apart from time – which I luckily have a lot of. I’ll let you know more once I get the thing redesigned but for now this is just a small update I am writing while in Portugal. (I am back now)
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