Greetings from Hell (Greece).

Roaf Beast

Roaf Beast

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Recipe for disaster :

New rider : check.
Bad motorcycle : check.
Bad roads : check.
Bad drivers : check.

Anyway , I don't think there are many people in Greece that have a helmet camera to show how motorcycles are treated.

I have been riding for a exactly a year with my (t)rusty Chinese Honda Wave knock-off while saving money for a proper motorcycle and proper riding equipment. Most people in Greece barely wear a helmet and I'm sitting here scared to death to go out without it.

I live in one of the bigger Greek islands. The weather is always humid , hot and sunny (except during winter which is cold , humid and sunny). It takes 3 hours to go from one end of the island to the other (lengthwise), about 10 minutes to cross the town centre during rush hour and 20 to get to the nearest beach. It's a small city and it's really easy to meet the same person twice in 1 day.

When I first bought the camera ( a mobius camera) I never thought about uploading things to Youtube (I would only use the footage in case of an accident) but seeing as not many Greeks are uploading videos for the English speaking crowd I decided to have a crack at it , mainly for fun. Only thing I needed to convince me was finding out who RoyalJordanian is and what he posts.

Not much of a moto-vloggger since the mobius doesn't have a mic port. I plan to make a "Riding in Hell" series where I will post all the dangers one might encounter on the Greek roads. So far I only have experiment videos to see which camera and render settings work best and what method of silencing the wind noise works best.

Feels good to be part of this community.

And remember : don't hate , I'm only 20 , still learning.

ps : Sometimes I write too much.
 
Yassas file, (thats pretty much all the Greek I know along with a few other basic words) welcome aboard! Which island are you from and what would your channel name be?
 
itsatruestory said:
Yassas file, (thats pretty much all the Greek I know along with a few other basic words) welcome aboard! Which island are you from and what would your channel name be?
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I believe this is it:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXp5NYeVlGYITuxtGYyJ0Eg

It's pretty cool seeing Greece like this :) ... I never really have seen the cityscape before :o . I believe the Athens Olympics were on when I was I was living in China... and Chinese TV didn't show much of what I saw here :p . Your downtown is pretty :) ! One question... what are the flashing double yellow lights on the traffic lights for :o ??? I believe they allow you to turn with caution :o ? Something different to see and learn ;) . Also, how do you in the dark like that >< ??!

A couple suggestions... I'd raise your camera to view things just a little higher (see a little too much of street I think) and that mic-wind noise... yikes :p ! Ahh well, it's all part of the first growing pains of motovlogging ;) .

Pretty cool :D ! Subbed ^_^ !

Do you know who the actual person RoyalJordanian is, btw :o ??? If you do, impressive ;) !
 
The double yellow lights mean that you can turn but if a pedestrian or another car is passing you have to let it go first. It's really common here.

I wish I knew RJ in person. I am working on camera angles but I can't do much since I only have a piece of velcro on the top of the helmet.

As for the wind noise I am experimenting with things like duct tape. I tried recording sound with my phone while riding but no luck. So far I can only use clips where I am going slowly (~15mph) which is the limit before wind overpowers everything.
 
Thanks for the explanation on the lights ^_^ ! They are starting to incorporate something similar here for left turns, but it hasn't made it to my city yet :p ... it will be the future of permitted left turn lights, though :) .

No biggie on the camera angle, etc ;) . I have my camera attached to my helmet using the super velcro stuff (3M Dual Lock - works great :D !). Also, if you need to readjust or take the camera off, it's real easy without any blemished :) ... preferred for a helmet in my opinion ;) .

Ahh well, good luck on your future vlogs in hell :p ^_^ !!!
 
Sweet! Hack that Mobius and put a external Mic on it. We like to hear Jibber Jabber! Well....Some of us do.

It's very easy to do on that camera and even with a cheap Mic they sound great!. I still cannot post any links on the forum yet but if you do a Google search for "Mobius Teardown" you can click on the images link and you can see a teardown of the Mobius camera. The condenser Microphone is right next to the lens and is super easy to clip off. It leaves a good base to solder two leads to a external Mic Jack. The Cheap eBay mics with the wind guards on them work great on these cams when doing the mobius external mic hack.
 
Thanks for the images but to be honest , despite studying electronic engineering (and taking classes in circuitry and all that) , I would never trust myself with a soldering iron. Or near delicate components of any device. I will however try to silence the damn thing by adding some cotton or cloth in front of the mic inside the case , since it has so much room in front of it. If that doesn't work I'll temporarily record sound using my phone ( I found the correct settings) until I can afford something like a Zoom H1.
 
No way! You can do this. It is very easy. Get a cheap soldering kit and practice on some old electrical components. It is fun and you can learn a new skill. . The mobuis is very easy to do this mod to.
 
I just spoke with my father. He used to work in an arcade. Turns out he has everything needed to do some soldering. Now I was thinking ; since the mobius mic has excellent quality , should I just strap a cable on it and put it in my helmet? Alternatively i thought about sticking a female mic jack but I am not sure what to do with the mobius mic. Any thoughts?
 
Just get a head phone extension and cut and strip the male end off of it. Clip the original Mic off with a pair of tiny side cutters and throw it away. Have that end of the headphone extention that you stripped soldered on the original Mic connections. It's just two leads.

You can cut a small hole in the case to allow the extention to poke out. Then hot glue around the whole for a seal. And glue a short section of the cable to the case so it isn't all floppy. I found a 10" headphone extension that I like using on them as Mic extension. The cheap lapel mics on eBay work great as well.


You could just solder the lapel Mic leads right to the board but I would do that. Using a extension allows you to try different mics.
 
Edit : I would not solder the Mic directly to the board. Solder a extension to it that way you can plug and unplug different mics.
 
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