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OldBadger

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About OldBadger

  • Birthday 12/12/1958

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    FS1E, YCS5E, RD250, RD400, R6
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    Dundee

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    Flying, cars, motorbikes

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  1. Edinburgh gives lots of options. South; A701, A702, A7 and A68 all close although A68 has too much speed monitoring. Get to these from the Edinburgh by-pass. North; options after crossing the Forth Road Bridge for a loop through Fife, use the coastal route and go to St Andrews. Again heading North from Perth you can head up the West or East paths. West is Crieff, Loch Earn, up the A82 and on to the Great Glen (glen Coe) with options for a loop around Oban. East side is up through Blairgowrie, Braemar, Ballater up towards Granton on Spey. These are bigger runs but can be done in a full day. My recommendation would be West side and if short of time make sure you do the great glen. The Sma Glen is between Crieff and Dunkeld (smaller route, roads and experience). Finally the Haggi won't cause you any problems as they will be in hibernation by then but their furry bretheren in the form of sheep and deer won't. The sheep will use the roads as they see fit as they have not worked out that grass does not grow on tarmac yet (they are often free to roam) and the deer will leap across the road with gay abandon, usually in wide open sections but they have been known to come through hedges - so keep a careful eye. Hopefully weather wil be fine and whatever you do enjoy. OldBadger
  2. Two moments for me and one for me bruv. First 1976 completely banked over scraping exhaust and pegs on a Dunstall 250 Yamaha just as plod arrive in a panda car from the other side. Pulls me over and says 'ok Agostini going a bit there weren't you' to which I replied 'Agostini, nah surely Kenny Roberts' (bike was a king Kenny replica colour job) to which he pauses and says, ' Aye ok, but be careful there could be kids out there'. Don't make them like that now do they! Follow up to this was big brother stopped for speeding few months later and when giving address the copper then stops and asks; 'is that your brother on the yellow and black Yamaha then'. He says yes and is told, 'off you go but be more careful'. Huge street cred for me with big bruv and all his pals from then on Last one, probably 82 ish, driving a taxi and get stopped for duff headlight. Gets asked if I knew there was a light out to which I reply 'no ....' Then proceed to tap the light that was broken. The not so daft copper than says 'amazing you knew which side to thump'. Not my brightest moment, but again was told 'get it fixed'. Now being a Taxi he could have put me off for the weekend but didn't. That would have lost me a weekend of wages plus a formal test at the police unit for the taxi. Cool cop really when you think about it. As I say don't make them like that any more. OldBadger
  3. Another one with a Contour Roam 2 here. Excellent camera does all I need and fairly easy to mount to helmet. Price on these was quite good but obviously Contour did go out of business although may soon be back. First thing I would say though is to understand why you want one. Is it to protect yourself against numpties who are likely to cause harm who they say 'not my fault', because if it is you need to look carefully at battery life as well recording time. Typically the Contour roam 2 will run for about 3 hours on a full charge and you can get about the same on a 32GB memory card. Is it just to capture images, maybe self learning/evaluation of performance because recording time is arguably less important here. I got mine for a bit of self learning (where could I have see if I could have done something better) as well as to have that evidence in the event of a problem with other road users. You also have to consider that having one is in some aspects a double edged sword in that the evidence recorded could be used aginst you not just in the event of an accident but possibly if stopped for, lets just say; enthusiastic riding. For me the risk of someone else doing something is the uncontrollable part and therefore what I need to protect myself from, which is why I will always try to have the camera on at all times. I am old enough now to limit my riding such that I would get a telling off or at the very worst a minor infraction but nothing that will get me a ban or jail This brings me back to recording time, to achieve the objective you need a solution that will always be there when you need it and because of the lenght of runs that I do I am still potentially at risk with a single camera. Solutions for me are; portable power charger (takes time to recharge and ok if you have a planned stop of sufficent length) or having two cameras and swapping over to extend recording duration. Now Sods law states that it will be off when you most need it unless you take appropriate steps. Hope that helps a bit OldBadger
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