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Aidy has been riding motorbikes since just after he left university in 2003. His first bike was a 1988 Suzuki GSX-R750 bought for £1000. His second bike was a Suzuki GSF600 Bandit, bought for his adventure to Norway in 2005. Two years later he sold the Bandit to Shane (for him to learn on) and upgrade to a BMW R1200GS... which was promptly trashed one month later by a SMIDSY.

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ATC2K and a dry track

April 10th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

My new toy arrived yesterday.  An Oregon Scientific ATC2K action camera.  This gadget is a VGA (640×480) digital video camera in a rugged waterproof housing, it can record at 30fps and, with a 2Gb flash card, can record up to an hour of footage.

So yesterday evening I headed out on my R1200GS to test out the camera.  The camera comes with various mounting add-ons so it was easy to attach the camera to the engine bars.  After that it was a case of hopping on the bike and riding off to my nearest track.

So far this year my nearest track has been thick with mud, so much so that I couldn’t ride along it without binning the bike into a hedge as it slips from under me.  Last night however, after several dry sunny day, the track had finally dried up enough to be able to ride it in one go without stopping.  I did take it rather easy as I wasn’t sure if it was still slippery or not.

Any way, the ATC2K capture the whole thing and, when I got home, I edited the footage in iMovie, added a soundtrack and uploaded it to YouTube:

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  1. Comment by Matt Thornton on 25 May 2008:

    Interesting – seems like a good toy which provides reasonable quality footage. Obviously struggles a bit in low light but that’s probably to be expected. Was it expensive? I was looking into this a long while ago, and ended up going the bullet cam route. But have since sold the required camcorder so looking into alternatives (hoping to hook up said cam to my Archos 605.)

    Out of interest, what did you use to create the “Ride Around” intro screen on the film? Was that done in iMovie as well? It’s pretty slick.

  2. Comment by Adrian Ritchie on 9 June 2008:

    The camera is an ATC2000 from Oregon Scientific and was about £80 from Amazon: http://is.gd/tla. The quality is reasonably good and the camera is supposed to be fairly bomb proof. It takes SD memory cards which are fairly cheap these days and has a USB out connection so you may be able to hook it up to your Archos.

    Shane is the man to answer your intro screen question.

  3. Comment by Shane Marriott on 9 August 2008:

    The intro clip was made using Final Cut Express HD on my Mac.

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