Kit For A 10 Day Euro Tour? Advice From The Experienced Please!

Shifty

Shifty

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If you have experience of this and not just an opinion I would like your advice?

I am taking the bike through Europe in May 10 days.
I have a Drift Ghost S
  1. I would like to video all day (to capture the unexpected)
  2. Store the videos each night
  3. Edit when back home into 10 minutes each day
What kit do I need and what settings?
  1. How do I store this each night?
  2. What size Card do I need
  3. etc etc etc
 
I did a 3-day, 500 mile enduro last fall with the same camera.

- You'll want at least three batteries, assuming you're riding 6-8 hours a day. Four would be better. I use the 1900mAh batteries from Wasabi Power-- work great. Also consider more than one charger as they take a while to charge.

- I get an average of 120MB/min at 1080p/30fps/normal bitrate. So for 8 hours you'd need a 64gb card, which is what I use. I recommend several cards given that they can occasionally fail, and after 8 hours on a bike, some nights you may just want to crash rather than dump video. I had a card for each day plus a spare for my trip.

- Remember to bring some method for charging the remote if you use it-- a USB power stick, laptop or phone charger will work fine.

- Note that if you're using external audio, the camera is not waterproof with the back cover off-- I captured audio on another device as the camera audio is mostly useless at speed.
 
Leon Loco said:
I did a 3-day, 500 mile enduro last fall with the same camera.

- You'll want at least three batteries, assuming you're riding 6-8 hours a day. Four would be better. I use the 1900mAh batteries from Wasabi Power-- work great. Also consider more than one charger as they take a while to charge.

- I get an average of 120MB/min at 1080p/30fps/normal bitrate. So for 8 hours you'd need a 64gb card, which is what I use. I recommend several cards given that they can occasionally fail, and after 8 hours on a bike, some nights you may just want to crash rather than dump video. I had a card for each day plus a spare for my trip.

- Remember to bring some method for charging the remote if you use it-- a USB power stick, laptop or phone charger will work fine.

- Note that if you're using external audio, the camera is not waterproof with the back cover off-- I captured audio on another device as the camera audio is mostly useless at speed.
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Really helpful @Leon Loco thank you very much, I will definitely take a few 64 gb cards instead of down loading and buy some spare batteries too.
 
I will go and get a 1tb drive, I was hoping to get one that doesn't need a computer and backs up micro sd cards. However they are not very common.
 
Yea that's a tough one, not sure how you'd do it without a computer...

Maybe android based using something like File Commander? Definitely would take some testing
 
Would love to hear how you get on with your equipment.

I'm doing a 10 day Euro Trip in August, so facing the same issues.
At the moment I'm planning to bring my MacBook :(
 
Take 2-3 large memory cards and a laptop

Everynight you dump the data onto the drive and a spare USB drive if possible.

While i was riding I charged powerbanks and rotated them between fuel stops. The power banks were stuck to my helmet using velcro so swopping them was easy.
 
I have brought 4 x 64GB Sandisk cards and a USB 500GB hard drive that connects to mac by USB. So will allow me to download in the evenings.
  • Mac Book Air
  • Hard Drive
  • 4 x 64gb cards
  • HD Ghost, permanently on USB on the bike to save recharging. Camera mounted on bike.
  • No remote as I have too much other gear.
  • Will use a locking mount on my sat nav, to save me having to remove it whilst having a coffee stop.
  • Senna S20s brought for me and my mate to intercom.
  • An extension cable (5 ports) as hotels have limited sockets, with cables already plugged in for phone, watch and Mac, Senna headsets, So I don't have to keep finding sockets and cables.
Clothes
  • T shirts, I will put a clean one on in the evening after shower and then use it on bike during the day. too Need circa 10.
  • Light weight shorts for evening, no trousers, don't need them.
  • 1 hoody
  • 12 pants and socks, worn evening then next day on bike?
  • Trainers....
  • Will use rain jacket from rain oversuit for evening over hoody, if needed.
 
I'd do yourself a favor and come up with a system to tag good clips during your ride. Maybe like a clap or something after a good section
 
Honestly. I could do an entire day of recording on my 64gb card and just transferred the data through my laptop to my external HD (3tb).
Other than that it took 3 extra batteries and a powerplug charger to get me up and running for all of my 7 days of eurotrip. I did have a backup SD should the one I was using get full before the end of the day, or should my other SD card fail. I think back-up's on small things such as SD cards are very undervalued for how usefull they will be when you need them. I did use the remote for my drift aswell, charged it through USB port on my laptop.

Clothes I packed way to much, I pretty much could've done with just a couple of sets of clean undies and socks. Just make sure you have something to wear after a blizzard, is what I've found. Always pack some bars or bisquits and enough water to last you for a while and you should be golden.

I took a tankbag and a backpack for everything I wanted to bring along and still ended bringing way too much.

Just in case you might also want to check if you have spare fuses on/in your bike in addition to the standard toolkit. I didn't bother with a tyre repair kit, although I think it would've been mighty handy to have just in case.

Finally, remember to bring things like reflective jackets and a hazard triangle to certain countries as they are required by law. Some countries have very disproportionate fines for these offences.
 
just remember even if you think you have enough gas to make it to the next city if your running a bit low you dont just trust me on this one ik from experience
 
+1 to what Arctic Pride suggested, since you record whole day and after 10 day ride you would simply have too much footage (I personally wouldnt be able to edit that much footage!) tagging seems like a brilliant idea. if you choose this method (clap or otherwise) you need to stop the video after the clap and start a new one again, so that later when you view them at home, you can directly skip to the end of each video and see if there is a clap and you can thus easily pick the good ones.

Chcknstrps said:
Finally, remember to bring things like reflective jackets and a hazard triangle to certain countries as they are required by law. Some countries have very disproportionate fines for these offences.
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Which country needs warning triangle for motorbikes? :eek: That seems ridiculous though. I have heard reflective vests are mandatory in France.
 
CodeNameAB said:
Which country needs warning triangle for motorbikes? :eek: That seems ridiculous though. I have heard reflective vests are mandatory in France.
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Reflective vests are indeed mandatory in France. Fine is around 160 euros if not enough surface is covered. (Or so I've been told). As for the mandatory warning triangle. Fine was 280 euros in Luxembourgh. I challenged the fine and lost. I wasn't pulled over just to check however. I was pulled over as I didn't have a left hand mirror, which is mandatory.
 
Thought bikes were exempt from carrying triangles?

Where do you put one if you don't have panniers?
 
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