Pay Attention To The Road!

IndyJoAnna

IndyJoAnna

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Most people when they motovlog pay attention to the road. Since I have started I have found that it is very easy to get side tracked and not pay attention to your surroundings. So, as a friendly reminder making good videos is one thing, but Please stay safe when vlogging everyone. Value your life more than your videos!
 
Very true, best to get over an intersection then carry on with the vlog. It's why they invented the blade tool in editors :)
 
Well said. I came off second best nearly a decade ago in a situation like that. I got sidetracked looking around for a certain house I was meeting my brother at in a residential area. When I focused back on the road, the car that was over 100m in front of me was now stopped and indicating to turn right 10m in front of me. I swerved and only just hit him (on his exhaust tip!), nice clean dismount over the handle bars but broke my ankle.

If I'd looked back 2-3 seconds earlier I'd have stopped in time or ridden around him. That is all it came down to.
 
I had my camera set to take a pic every 5 seconds. Looked towards a great view and held my head there for 5 seconds to make sure I got the pic - nearly ran into a cliff face. Not my smartest moment :oops:
 
Not necessarily, it means you have "spare ability" so to speak, bit if you're not looking or only looking 70% of the time, that's like closing your eyes for 18 seconds each minute.
 
I've had a moment where I was sidetracked by a large group of fire engines and I turned my head to look. If I hadn't turned my attention back to the road in time, I would have merged into oncoming traffic... 'Barrassing... Great reminder, IndyJoAnna :) Better to not ruin your life while trying to capture a moment.
 
Lurch said:
Not necessarily, it means you have "spare ability" so to speak, bit if you're not looking or only looking 70% of the time, that's like closing your eyes for 18 seconds each minute.
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Well you go flat out ride to your limit you have less time for errors to be corrected.
 
Not necessarily. Rossi could get a bike across the Snake in (say) ten minutes. Even giving it every ounce youd not match it, and we'd all clock different times as flat out straight is easy enough, corners is where it takes skill, experience and training.
 
But if you ride to your level, my 100% may be miles different to your 100%, ride to your abilitys and the rule still applys
 
Just tell me where you are heading and the route. You get the coffees in and I'll be there a short while later.

We can all get diostracted for any reason, not necessarily vlogging, as Carmo stated. But some people are better at compartmentalising doing two things or more at the same time than others. I'm not one of them, unfortunately, which is why most of my vids have so little talking in them.

Then again, I'm quite happy defining vlog as a log of what is happening through video, rather than necessarily written or spoken. Bit like a photoblog I suppose. So I just turn on and get going.
 
i definitely go slower and more careful when the cam is on. just because its on and you are talking.

i always get annoyed when i look at the footage because its all so slow xD.
but i just can t operate a vehicle and speak in a second language at the same time.

I d rather get home to upload the vid, and not just record some awesome footage xD
 
My riding doesn't really change on or off the camera. Safety is more important than a vlog, but I usually don't talk during filtering because I find it hard to stay on topic.
 
I can always tell when my attention is being diverted from vlogging to riding. It's kind of like riding is the primary task and when it requires things that are more challenging for me to do, my resources get shifted from the secondary task (talking) to the primary task. At my level of riding experience this is generally anything more complicated than going in a straight line, lol. It makes for tedious editing and more content oriented videos (as opposed to riding oriented), but I always think it's a good thing my brain prioritizes automatically like that because it helps to protect me. Other people can just talk and talk while dragging their knee. They are probably good multi-taskers.

My pet peeve is when I see vloggers take unreasonable risks for the camera that they might not otherwise take. For example a popular vlogger (I won't name names) one time rode their bike home on the interstate with a broken throttle (had the cable wrapped around their thumb to use it). Now maybe they had no other choice, but I've gotta think if the camera wasn't around they'd have just called a truck or gotten a ride.
 
Even though I am in a car I tend to shut up automatically when things get too much for my brain to process. I can't even carry on a phone conversation inside a car without the other party getting the silent treatment. Driving > Everything else. I am sure I'll have way more jump-cuts when I start motovlogging...
 
Play to your skill level, when I first got started riding I wanted a camera on my helmet for saftey purposes, like if I'm hurt/ accident etc. but it really threw me off at first having the weight on the helmet and riding in wind, it was difficult, So rather than starting vlogging I focused more on learning, as I should have, and now the wind doesn't bother me at all aside from making me cold and the weight is just an after thought at this point.
 
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