A better Brass Monkeys Video

Matt has a trick HD camera. Best if you pause the playing and let the download get ahead a bit.

Loyalty

Alternatively, if it will stream properly for you, you might get a better view here on Vimeo.

Snow 19 Dec

New MTB Shirts

Brand new shirts, same old flats.

Thursday Night MTB Ride

You would think that given a floodlight and a spotlight that a movie camera could sort out some night pictures.

Well. I chose to lend the flood to a mate whose main (and only) light had developed a habit of cutting out at random points.

So - no v good pictures as it turns out.

Just listen to the relaxing music.


Thursday Night MTB Ride - The most amazing home videos are here

12:12 Torq in your Sleep

An unscheduled dismount quite early in an endurance race.

Note the audience of small boys, they were highly amused.

Yes, yes ... ha bloody ha.

1212 Torq in your sleep from atc5k on Vimeo.

Overexposed.

You may know that a USE Exposure cycle light is one of those insane luxuries that a keen cyclist might treat themselves to. They cost more than a cheap bike. This person has 4! On top of that there are 2 helmet mounted USE Joysticks. Current retail total a smidge over £1400 on lights. It would be pretty well night into day. Remarkable.

TwentyFour12 - looking back

Loads of fun. Except for putting back on a cycle jersey soaked with gone-cold sweat, in the middle of the night; that was not fun. Oh - and falling off. Twice.

Here's a handlebars-level view of bits of my first lap.

There's some inadvertent footage of a racer in a bit of bother - I left it in by way of reportage.

TwentyFour12_ShortEdit from atc5k on Vimeo.

TwentyFour12 - looking forward

Off in a team of four mates to take part in a wee bike race this weekend:



Link to pics from last year. Don't look for me, I wasn't there: 2008 Gallery

I'm imagining the same - except frequently tipping down with rain. The aim is to finish, that's a start I suppose.

Cycling Routes

Used many times in this blog already:



www.bikely.com

Routes can be downloaded to your own GPS - they come as .gpx files, you might need to translate them, perhaps using:



www.gpsbabel.org

EspressoBak

The Wind Cries Mary

No smarty pants reason to use this song, I just like it, that's all.

Local Bluebell Wood

Bluebells only just starting - but new bike tyres needed shaking up.



Clicking the HQ button will reduce the pixellation.

New Bike

I'm assured that it *is* possible to have too many titanium bicycles. I stuggle to accept this.

Sat 14 Mar MTB Ride from atc5k on Vimeo.

A nice walk

Hints of Spring

Wheels

I found a way of getting a slightly higher quality video - watch someone else's.

You can also get a slightly better version of mine by starting the video - then clicking on the moving picture - this will take you to the Youtube page proper - where you can click on the "Watch in high quality" link under the pic.

Cold was the night, hard was the ground.

Gustard Wood

Another one ...



A bit pixelated - if you can convince YouTube to allow you to copy the original file it's a bit better. KeepVid.com will steal a better quality MP4 format file from YouTube for you.

My Christmas present.

A wee video camera - not the world's greatest resolution, but rugged enough for mountain bike handlebars. Or helmet if you can bear the ridicule.

I took it on a very cold Saturday morning ride. Drinking water froze quite quickly, camera batteries froze too after the first hour.

Here's a ham-fisted bit of Windows MovieMaker-ism.