May
2023
May has been a busy month with the London Classic Bike Show, the LE Club AGM, 2CV Club meeting, a Funeral some repair jobs on the El Cid and making useable brackets for use with my cheap action camera filling in the month nicely. I’ll begin with the funeral of our 2CV friend Keith we have him pictured with his Charleston he was a man of many parts involved in sailing, scouting and his favourite, bees.
After many years and having the exhaust blowing all the way back from Barcelona it turned out that it was the cross box that leaked the most. It has now been replaced with the one from the van. Four hours to do the job with crawling in, under and around the El Cid propped up on axle stands to make enough room to extract the cross box from underneath. I must be feeling a bit better to be able to do that job.
Having bought this waterproof action camera years
ago and used it on my trip to the seven highest motorable passes in India, the
highest at 18,300 feet there is an urge to have more of my motorcycle travels
recorded. To do this properly good kit is required none of which I have and not
wanting to waste money if it doesn’t work out but still wanting to try it I
needed to do some testing for the Buell. One problem from the outset is the
positioning of the camera. Mounting it in a suitable position on the handlebar
at a strategic point is problematic. Outside the screen gains wind noise but
within the screen has poor vision. My first efforts had too many little
connectors and the camera would move on bumps in the road. I could not get the
screws tight enough to balance the weight of the camera. I found that 2mm hard
rubber sheet was great at gripping on the handlebar brackets and the screws did
not have to be too tight. Steel brackets marked the paint finish on the
handlebars. I wanted the camera easily removable and used the clip bracket
supplied which has an adhesive pad on the back. I made an aluminium stalk for
the LE and Valiant to see how that worked.
Testing the brackets. Buell
Valiant
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