GoPro Mount Flight Test Takes My Attention Off The Pedals Biking to Huffman
I thought I might start earlier on today’s bike ride but it didn’t happen. The Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike and I began the ride at 9:38 AM on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. This is the route I ride the most and today marked the 22nd time this year. I added a couple of extra streets to the ride and ended up covering 34.06 miles. I want to get to at least 70 miles for the week and this ride put me at 71.16 miles and 452.14 miles for July.
Heat was the headline for today’s weather with another heat advisory. While the heat doesn’t bother me that much I wanted an early start to get back before the hottest part of the day finishing the ride at 12:25 PM. Weather at the start and finish: start 88 (74% humidity, 78.5 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 9 mph. Finish 95 (57% humidity, 77.1 dew point), partly cloudy, wind variable 5 mph. wind wasn’t much of a factor in the ride except when I rode west over Lake Houston.
My new GoPro camera setup got a test and issues surfaced. I concentrated my attention on the setup rather than maximizing my biking effort. Some things that came up: the GoPro kept falling forward because the bolt was tight enough. I stopped and tightened it twice. The mount started rattling until I noticed the screw on the T-bracket was loose, once I tightened it the rattle left. A side problem I did not notice until I stopped to tighten the bolts was the GoPro was on waiting for me to push the record button rather in the QuikCapture mode running the battery down. I caught it in time so the battery lasted the whole ride. Another thing to check before riding. Next ride I will use the GoPro wrench to tighten the bolts to keep the camera from falling forward. The new position removes the brake levers from field of view and the camera turns a few degrees right and left. Hopefully on tomorrow’s ride I can concentrate on biking and not fixing the GoPro.
Even with my concentration on the camera Strava reported “This was consistent with your usual efforts.”
This graph compares mileage biked over 2011 through 2020.
