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@tynan
It is notoriously difficult to successfully film smoothly from your bike, but you can decent results with some effort.
Here is what I have arrived at after a few years of doing this kind of lark:
Get a video camera with an optical stabilizer (not an electronic stabilizer) and switch it on.
FIlm at as high shutter speed as the camera will allow 1/2000th would be good (the reason for this will become clear)
Use as wide an angle lens as possible - if a fish eye is too much for you go for something like a x0.5
Attached the camera to your head ! There is no better stabilizer than your head.
Film in HD.
One filmed, stabilize the footage further on your computer with motion tracking software.
Each one of these steps will really help to produce a smooth flowing image. The reason you want to shoot at a high shutter speed is that when you stabilize the footage in software you have nice crisp images for the software to track and not smeared with motion blur - also the reason you would want to fim in HD is that as your image is stabilized the edges are compromised and you can crop a really decent standard definition (perhaps even 720p) image from the centre).
I have filmed from my bike with a Steadicam (a real one) and it was not as good as footage taken with the above method.