An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot worse..

[Cagerontwowheels]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

About the loss of gopro footage:

I had the same, what happened is with the hit on the ground, the gopro sd card jumped out of the socket. This is with the GPro1 and 2.
On the gopro3 you have that little "door" that prevents the card from jumping out.
My fix for that, after loosing valuable crash footage (which saddled ME with the repair costs) was to tape a folded business card in front of the sd card slot. This way, even if the hit is hard enough to make the sd card jump out, it wont come out far enough to break contact with the reader, so it keeps on truckin'.

Looks hideous, but works.

 

[avowuntohisown]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

About the loss of gopro footage:

I had the same, what happened is with the hit on the ground, the gopro sd card jumped out of the socket. This is with the GPro1 and 2.
On the gopro3 you have that little "door" that prevents the card from jumping out.
My fix for that, after loosing valuable crash footage (which saddled ME with the repair costs) was to tape a folded business card in front of the sd card slot. This way, even if the hit is hard enough to make the sd card jump out, it wont come out far enough to break contact with the reader, so it keeps on truckin'.

Looks hideous, but works.

Ah great, thanks for the tip!

I had a weird icon on the screen when I looked at the GoPro immediately after - did you notice that too? Can't remember what it looks like now...

 

[crackthepipe999]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Just looking at your Ducati now whils getting tyres, poor thing


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[Cagerontwowheels]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

About the loss of gopro footage:

I had the same, what happened is with the hit on the ground, the gopro sd card jumped out of the socket. This is with the GPro1 and 2.
On the gopro3 you have that little "door" that prevents the card from jumping out.
My fix for that, after loosing valuable crash footage (which saddled ME with the repair costs) was to tape a folded business card in front of the sd card slot. This way, even if the hit is hard enough to make the sd card jump out, it wont come out far enough to break contact with the reader, so it keeps on truckin'.

Looks hideous, but works.

Ah great, thanks for the tip!

I had a weird icon on the screen when I looked at the GoPro immediately after - did you notice that too? Can't remember what it looks like now...

ye. that is a motocross dude icon.
It means the gopro is trying to fix (close) a corrupted (broken due to sd card slippage) file.

What I did (wrong) was turn off the gopro, then open the case and notice the sdcard was out. What I should have done was open the case, reinsert the sd card, and hope the 1minute of buffer mem would get written.
But I was too shaken up - I had just crashed on a very busy highway, hit head-first the center divider, coudlnd get up and all I could do was squiggle over to the divider so I wouldnt get run over. I did say the license plate of the truck that made me panic brake and crash... but no footage. :/

Which gopro you have? 1? 2? 3?

 

[avowuntohisown]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Ah that must have been what happened to me. I did the same thing - turned it off immediately!

I have a GoPro2 (although fancy upgrading to a black!)

 

[AndyB365]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Avowuntohisown, I watched the video yesterday and I must say, that was one hell of a place to crash and it's a good thing you're ok, but one thing that I noticed in the video was that Ashpark kept calling you avoo unto his town, I mean, now I'm confused, it's a stupid question but it's pronounced A vow unto his own right?

 

[avowuntohisown]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Just looking at your Ducati now whils getting tyres, poor thing

Meh, screw the bike, I'm on AutoTrader

Avowuntohisown, I watched the video yesterday and I must say, that was one hell of a place to crash and it's a good thing you're ok, but one thing that I noticed in the video was that Ashpark kept calling you avoo unto his town, I mean, now I'm confused, it's a stupid question but it's pronounced A vow unto his own right?

Yeah, you're right - I think he was a bit confused

 

[crackthepipe999]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Avowuntohisown, I watched the video yesterday and I must say, that was one hell of a place to crash and it's a good thing you're ok, but one thing that I noticed in the video was that Ashpark kept calling you avoo unto his town, I mean, now I'm confused, it's a stupid question but it's pronounced A vow unto his own right?

Don't worry that was the first time meeting him and I was referring to him as Avon town


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[AndyB365]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Haha, I thought that might be why. You guys seem a good laugh as well, I think I might join you on a ride when I get a few more horsepower on tap Seems a lot more fun than anything you could do in a car (that's legal, of course )

 

[crackthepipe999]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Haha, I thought that might be why. You guys seem a good laugh as well, I think I might join you on a ride when I get a few more horsepower on tap Seems a lot more fun than anything you could do in a car (that's legal, of course )

Your more than welcome even if your on a 125. (I'm using my phone so I can't read what I ride, sorry)

And yes had more fun in a 15hp 125 than I ever did in a 160bhp mini


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[AndyB365]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

At the moment I'm still waiting on getting a 50, but I'll be getting a 125 for my 17th in May next year, which is a long time away but it'll be well worth the wait I reckon,. Just because I'm new to the biking world I'd like to ask any of you guys if I can get a provisional 125 license (A2) whilst I'm still 16 as long as I have a full moped license (AM)? I doubt I can but if any of you know if I can that would be awesome.

Sorry I am going a bit off topic for the thread really.

 

[ashpark208]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Avowuntohisown, I watched the video yesterday and I must say, that was one hell of a place to crash and it's a good thing you're ok, but one thing that I noticed in the video was that Ashpark kept calling you avoo unto his town, I mean, now I'm confused, it's a stupid question but it's pronounced A vow unto his own right?

ahha yea, went I first saw avow on youtube I spent about 15mins trying to figure out how to pronounce his username and still got it wrong :S

It was literally as I was uploading the video that it finally clicked but at that stage I couldn't be bothered to go back and re-record the whole thing again so I just stuck a message in the description :S

 

[AndyB365]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

I desperately need to start reading the descriptions more :roll:

 

[avowuntohisown]

Re: An expensive weekend that's about to get a whole lot wor

Ducati is sold!

Now onto the next one :twisted: