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May 2023

 

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.

In his honour we managed to get a few of us together to give him a send off with a 2CV, Van and my Burton. His death had been quite a surprise from diagnosis to funeral in just a few months and he managed to sell his car in between time. He will be sorely missed as a stalwart of the club.

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.

Types of bracket: An alternative mounting of the clip bracket. The one with too many connectors.               
The Stalk mounting of the clip bracket.

Testing the brackets. Buell


Valiant


Still a little bit bouncy but not bad for a first effort.




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