Ghost HD mount on Nolan N102 helmet with GoPro mounts

[janx101]

Got a Ghost for fathers day ... Love my Nolan helmet .. but the N102 being flipface presents problems with the Drift mounts that i could find locally... and being impatient (usually) .. i looked for alternatives... saw a vid on here or YT? .. about mounting a GoPro onto a flipface helmet... which caused me some thinking! (darn it hurt too!) ...

The following also includes a modified mount setup i want to use on my Suzuki GS500F fairing/s

I like the extra versatility of the GoPro hardpoint mounts... so i toddled down the street and picked up the 'Spare Parts Grab Bag' .... had a bit of a fiddle with ideas... oh ... plus a drift shoulder harness mount, a hard carry case and a external mic .. :roll: (the things kept on jumping into my arms!!!)

Warmed up my Aussie Bush Mechanic skills :roll: (aka Redneck Engineering) ... and came up with the following...

Starting with the top half of a Drift handlebar mount (not pictured anywhere as an entire unit i just realised) .. i selected my intended items


looking at the 'helmet mount' .. and seeing that the multi leaf elements are not directly compatible... hmmm


so .. some hectic 'hightech' tools and careful application of principles ....would be needed



not many seconds later i was on the way!


followed by some careful and precise shaping!!



a bit of hand sanding to make it 'neat' .. (not pictured) .. and i could join my items together



then following the basic idea of the other flipface vid i saw..




and it clears the open face nicely... plus .. with checking the little screen on the ghost .. i get just the top edge of the helmet in the bottom of shot... i will possibly add more elbows to it later if the helmet dome annoys me


now without running through the whole process exactly for the fairing mount... i just repeated what i did with the helmet mount..






not having the bike with me today .. i cant pix the placement of the mount yet ... but with a few more GoPro sticky pads (curved and flat) .. plus probably a few more Drift ones also (cant have too many mount options eh? ... for the long term!) .. i should be set i think

next item i want to buy is the Drift Universal "On the Go" power pack... or maybe just multiple batteries? .. possibly another memory card too

hope this is useful for future reference... and hope i havent covered something already done! ..

Cheers Vloggers!
Janx

 

[janx101]

it was just pointed out to me on a bike forum that i could have got one of these

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121169939620 ... 1438.l2649

.... and i agree .. much simpler!! ...

i'm impatient!! ... and wanted to 'play' with my idea...

woulda had to wait DAYS and DAYS for that little widget to turn up from Hong Kong!

ah well... live and learn!! :lol:

 

[DSN]

Good work Batman.

 

[janx101]

I don't know if being batman is a good thing or a bad thing :lol:

... I will admit now a newbie error though ... In the photos above I was careful to have the camera all lined up nice and level pointing forward on the helmet ... :roll:

Didn't really think about the angle the helmet sits on my head ... Didn't do a quick test shot either!!

Did my first 30 min run with microphone other day ... Pulled up at a shop for a coffee and review of how it came out...

29min 52 secs of the view centred in my handlebars and about 3m in front of the bike :ugeek: with me chattering away about all the amazing scenery.... And a few seconds of the actual road ahead when I had looked up at the sky to comment on the cloud cover!! ..

:lol: ... Genius!!!!

So just bit the bullet and wiped it....

Valuable learning though! ... Always test and check your shot/audio/mount stability !! .. I feel clevererer already! :mrgreen:

 

[Mr AusAdventure]

Very nice mod mate. I was scratching my head figuring out how to get a more central POV on my flip top helmet, in the end just went for the side so I could ride with either the face open or closed.

Does the front of the helmet obscure the view from the camera when it is flipped up? In the photo it looks like it does.

I have another helmet that is full faced, I was thinking of putting a GoPro mount on that on the chin. I quite like that POV. Only thing is that helmet is too small and I get a headache after an hour. Might do for short rides though.

 

[janx101]

with the alignment of the camera in the photo .. yeah the flip face went straight into the view... however in my above post i mentioned discovering that the alignment i used gives a fabulous view of the handlebars! :| :lol:

i havent actually thought to flip the visor itself or the whole flip face up with the now usable camera angle... that particular helmet is a flip face but not one of the new 'modular' styles... to be legal i have to have the face down and the chin bar locked into place... structural rigidity etc .. so the flip face will never be able to block the view for on the move videos

the new modular style ones can have the chinbar out of the way over the back of the helmet and still road legal so i believe ... of course to flip the chin bar up and back would mean having to be stopped with helmet off to shift the camera out of the was in the meantime.

i will test a bit with the visor open and the 'vps' sunshade up too... i dont think they are going to impinge on the view area though .. not quite high enough... plus i rarely ride with the visor full open .. i dont like getting much wind in my eyes.. most of the time and even in the heat of summer i'll have the visor open a maximum of 2 clicks... just enough for a little cooling air.

the original in photo orientation meant i could see about the top 2cm of the helmet dome in the bottom of shot... having it lined up to actually see 'what i see' means its the usual 20-25 degrees up angle? so well in the clear