What's the best way to film on a bike?

risi thing is the results are really not all that great, considering the amount of time he must've spent making it.

It's not a real steady cam. There are no counterweigths and no dampening. Springs alone don't help that much.

Actually I didn't see the little movie link when I posted that - and yes you are right the results are not great for what looks like quite a bit of work, a lot of the vibration has gone but it still swings all over the place.

I would call anything that stabilizes camera motion a 'steady cam' (of sorts), the Coen brothers use a large plank of wood with the camera in the middle and a bloke on either end to stabilize the camera for moving shots in a lot of the their films.

Here is a hand held steady cam thing I made a couple of years back (counter weights and all) - without the camera mounted. It is mainly from skips, old bike parts I had lying around and general rubbish people had thrown out - the main base bar is a an old spirit level, the centre pole is two stanchions off a dead manitou suspension fork held together with seat post clamps, a 1-1/8th stem for the hand grip, a old crutch for arm support etc etc - the only thing I bought was the little monitor for something like £40 from Maplins. I even made my own counter weights by melting roofing lead in a pan on the stove and pouring the molten lead into ingots.

Jesus fucking christ, didn't I have anything better to do ! Still the results were great, I might think about designing a lightweight bike mount (??)

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