The 1lb Gorillapod on the Scoot

[Coffeejunkie]

I wanted to start adding some vids of my rides to my blog, and was curious if anyone had every used a Joby Gorillapod to mount their camera to their scoot. Heck if you look at the home page of their site they're doing just that, but it's clearly not a Buddy. (link below)

http://joby.com/

[rsrider]

When you get it in place, zip tie it down so it won't fall off. Those things will not hold in place once you start hitting bumps, and if you zip tie it, you probably won't lose it off your scoot. Either get a hard mount, or a helmet cam mount just to be safe.

[Coffeejunkie]

Thanks, you can never underestimate the power of the zip tie.

[UnionZac]

I filmed myself on a '66 Raleigh Sports using a Gorilla Pod. The problem you may find is that the joint that the camera toggles on is not terribly secure. So once you've lashed down your tripod, while you won't lose the whole camera, it will probably bounce and move to some other crazy angle.

Have you checked these out, they seem pretty cool for the money.

http://www.goprocamera.com/

[ericalm]

I suspect that once attached tight enough not to move, it'll have the same issues as my RAM mount for video: too much vibration.

What kind of camera are you thinking of using?

[illnoise]

I've found that hanging the camera around your neck works best, your body absorbs a lot of vibration, and it's nice to see the headset in the shot, it gives you more natural footage, more like what you see when you're riding, when you lean the bike, the camera doesn't lean with it, etc.

[brape]

^^ what he said, or get a helmet cam. I susspect that if its just for internet viewing you might get away with a somewhat inexpensive one.