Best GoPro Bike Mount

hey folks is ray from DC america com2
I’ve got GoPros newest bike mounts this
is the first kind of action release bike
mounts for their action cameras in the
past what they had was this small called
a handlebar mount they had a small one
in a big one and it basically went ahead
and it kind of popped on there now it
was handlebar and that was actually like
a roll bar for anything it could have
been bikes or motor sports or just a
pole on the side of the street whereas
these are actually designed for bicycles
and while this was fine and kind of did
the trick it was sort of awkward you
know if you use it like this you had to
put an adapter to turn it and it just
was a lot of extra height and a lot of
bounce and it was sort of generally crap
so instead we’ve got this new one here
and a really one on a saddle there so
the first one here is a handlebar mount
and it’s designed to better rotate so
you can actually rotate it around you
can adjust the angle like this it’s
pretty darn cool
it’s not going to be for everyone but
I’ll talk about the scenario that works
best in and where it may not work best
put that back there and then next on the
back here we have this saddle mountain
so very similar to what Cage has had the
past another mount company in terms of
just having a GoPro hitting up on the
back there but let’s start off with the
front mount okay so here’s the front
mount what we have here is basically two
adjustable system technically three if
you count the actual mount portion
itself so the way this works is you got
a bolt that comes up the bottom there
and it cranks it onto there and then the
actual mount comes with four different
brackets basically small plastic rubber
spacers that allow you to put it on
different sized handlebars all of them
have to be round so if you do have a
kind of flattish aero bar type situation
it’s not going to work for you it really
has to be round and it’s it’s kind of a
little more finicky than some of the
ones that can adjust up and down forever
so just keep that in mind so you get
this first bolt that locks it on place
here it’s not going anywhere at all then
you have two different bolts the first
one controls this rotation kind of
around this axis right there to move the
camera all the way around and that’s
right here and you can use just a hex
wrench in there to go ahead and tighten
that up and you can of course tighten it
so it doesn’t move at all which is
certainly one possibility in the second
then is to go the kind of up and down
motion like
this and that’s his bolt right there so
you can see they’re perfectly lined up
this way and as I rotate it around and
then obviously I don’t why meant I can
keep on rotating it all the way around
now what’s cool about this is that you
know if you’re looking to do like photos
and stuff like that a long ride this is
kind of neat in that you can just simply
rotate this point it up towards you and
get a neat picture it’ll also allows for
some really interesting shots if you
want to have a bit more like
cinematography look to your movie or
your video and get shots for example
down on to the wheels just the pavements
going by so you would just see pure
pavement alone and then again you know
you can see braking shots here this is
going to require a lot more a lot but
certainly more attention to detail in a
movie if you’re going to use all the
different angles if you’re going to have
it just like this you can certainly lock
it down and it’s not going to go
anywhere and you may want to bring a hex
wrench with you so you can go ahead and
kind of lock this and move this on the
fly so at this point you may be
wondering why you to get this mount over
something else and it’s a really good
question there are a lot of great GoPro
mounts out there one of my favorites is
is kedge one it just simply drops the
GoPro down below the bar there so it’s
kind of a little more still forward of
these the handlebars the brakes so you
don’t go hanger those in the picture but
it’s definitely out of the way and the
second one here is a bar fly but cage
makes a very similar one this allows you
to have both your garment up top so
you’d probably ideally put it right here
that way it goes ahead in it it’s going
to have the GoPro right there the Garmin
right in the middle there and then the
GoPros drop down inference these sort of
compliments are definitely my favorite
it’s what I prefer to use whereas this
is going to be you know for a bit more
creativity and it’s also going to pop
this up a little higher you could run
this upside down if you wanted to but
it’s a little Messier because of the
cables and stuff down here and it’s
going to push this down further because
of the stack height here for that
rotation bit there Oh in the case you’re
wondering about this case right there
that is the frame case it’s one of my
favorite cases there is I always kind of
use this because I like to get basically
the the camera I would have kind of a
plastic shell in front of her or that
glass in front of a normal GoPro case
and it also allows me then to easily pop
things in and out and get the audio nice
and crisp too
so last but not least we have the saddle
mount here so this GoPro saddle mount
basically goes ahead and mounts on the
rails these are kind of standard
Universal rails below any sort of saddle
it’s got a single screw that goes up the
middle there one bolt that comes across
the side here it’s really simply be use
those go and test your case on the
standard GoPro mount they’re nice and
solid it’s not going anywhere this
particular shot is great if you’re
cycling in a group so kind of a peloton
type scenario where you’re looking back
people are coming up attacking you it’s
awesome for that if you’re riding by
yourself
generally the shots you want to use it
sparingly in your videos will get kind
of boring otherwise and then the last
scenario might be useful for is you’re
writing a traffic you want to cord cars
coming up behind you
now this mount is really similar to the
cage mount I’ve been using the cage
mount for years you can see it’s
virtually identical design the only
difference between the GoPro in the cage
the GoPro is two screws the cage or the
cage has one screw to go pro two screws
coming at the bottom the exact same
concept there really no different
honestly like I just find whatever one’s
cheapest but get one of these get one
that’s metal that’s the key thing here
is that you want something that’s really
sturdy that you can crank down you don’t
have to worry about and it’s going to
give you a nice solid shots
okay so last but not least note that you
can use it with any GoPro compatible
unit so whether that’s the GoPro Hero 4
it’s the gopro hero4 session
it’s the GoPro old it’s the GoPro
whatever you want as long as it has a
GoPro mount even a Garmin VirB XE
anything as long as that GoPro mat
you’re good to go
the other thing to note is you can also
use it with a thumb screw instead so
this allows you to kind of rotate things
up and down really easily as opposed to
having a hex wrench so if you don’t want
to carry a wrench with you you can just
use thumb screws to kind of walk in
place nice and tight and then adjust it
on the fly so with that thanks for
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