Making a film with my buddy (125)

[Cpryd001]

My buddy 125 and I plan to make a film. But since you are all familiar with Buddy 125s, let's talk about me.

I am a new rider, with about 5 months worth of riding experience. I took the motorcycle training course and have a little M on my license now. I clocked a total of 650 miles on my Buddy, and had 2 very minor incidents (both involving potholes. No injuries. No harm to the buddy. I blame Philadelphia roads) And so, I'm pretty confident in my riding abilities.

I plan to make a film where I ride from Philadelphia to Vineland, NJ.
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I plan to have a camera-mount on the scooter, as well as have a friend drive his Pathfinder to film me from different angles.

Any tips on the process?

[Lostmycage]

I'd get some more riding experience under my belt before attempting a longer ride, especially one that's going to be filmed. If you know you're going to be filmed, you're going to be more aware of the camera... that means you're going to be focused on what you perceive the camera shooting. That's a lot of your attention span that's not focused on the road and your surroundings.

600 miles is pretty much nothing in riding experience. That's barely the break-in oil change recommendation for most manufacturers.

That's both you and your bike that's potentially unready for such an undertaking.

Having said all that, I'm a trial by fire, live life while it's available to live kinda fella. So if you feel you can do it, and you've planned your route and the bike checks out OK, Go for it. You've got a support vehicle ready. Adventure is adventure. There's pretty much nothing else in life that's going to make you feel alive like the fear of dieing. Do the safety checks and all that. If you feel it's unsafe or against your gut feeling to continue on a certain path, pull over and wait or re-route.

Either way, good luck!

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I ride around with cam stuck in my helmet (I vblog) wait awhile get some miles under your belt first having a camera is another distraction you will have to get used to. right now you have to learn how to watch out for stuff in the road and people trying to run you over oh ride safe and enjoy

[Cpryd001]

I've been doing some test runs at various parts of the day, trying to build my highway legs.

Did you build your own Helmet cam? I would love to see how you did that.

[Vic]

what is the nature of this road that you are planning to take, is it mostly rural and not a lot of traffic-particularly large truck traffic? Are these roads familiar to you?

650 miles of experience and 5 months of riding experience during the winter is different than 5 months of summer riding. I would definitely suggest that you get some more experience before adding another distraction to the process.

To be honest, someone with less than 10k of experience and a couple of accidents saying that they feel confident about their riding skills is what scares me the most.

I understand that you feel that the roads are to blame for your accident, and I don't know the details of these accidents, but this also concerns me.

I am not trying to tell you what to do, it is totally up to you, of course.

-v

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I've been doing some test runs at various parts of the day, trying to build my highway legs.

Did you build your own Helmet cam? I would love to see how you did that.

pm'd you check your inbox

[ericalm]

Video mounted to the scoot only works well if you have something with very good image stabilization. I use a DIY mount strapped to my chest and even that's very shaky. You'll probably want to experiment with it quite a bit.