General topics » Mounting GoPro

Hi
Apologies if this was covered in the old forum but I finally lashed out on a GoPro camera for my upcoming Spanish tour
I have had the bracket mounted for some time as per a reccomendation on the old site which is a bracket I got from Italy mounted off the fairing on the near side indicator
I had a quick trail run last night and I noticed that it was shaking quite a bit
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Hi SB,

I have had some success mounting the camera on the wing mirror, at the point where the mirror connects to the stem. I use either a handlebar tube mount packed out with some rubber spacers, or I have a GoPro clamp, which works quite well too. I also recently tried mounting the camera on the side of my helmet, and that works surprisingly well and doesn't cause as much wind drag as I had originally feared. I'm thinking of getting some engine protection bars, or fog lamp mounting brackets, purely to give more options for mounting the camera.

If you come up with any better ideas, please share them.

Cheers,

Paul

This mount is available from Nippy Norman's
https://www.nippynormans.com/gps-accesso...lc-2015-onwards

I used the mirror arm last year but just stuck a pad mount on the base of the screen this year. You obviously don’t capture any of the bike in the image but get a great view. It doesn’t seem to have suffered from vibration and I use a remote to start and stop the image capture (no longer called filming so the kids tell me) so no problem with reaching the camera to start and stop.

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Hi Holger,

I did have a cheap plastic holder (£1.50 from ebay) that fits standard handlebars but as the RS doesn’t have normal bars I just strap the remote to the bar mount using the Velcro strap that comes with the remote.

This is actually a better option IMO as you can adjust just where it sits and it’s very quick to remove. I have just put a small piece of rubber on the back so the precious BMW emblem doesn’t get scratched🙈

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Zitat von Holger im Beitrag #9

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This is too dangerous for me to make adjustments during the drive.

With my bracket (I could reach from the handle, see photo) I actually wanted to switch from foto to video and start / stop, but even that was not as easy as desired.

Now I do almost only pictures and have auto recording (every 2 sec. a picture), that is at home a little more work, but I hardly miss good motives.|addpics|ktl-4-6c38.jpg|/addpics|

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I had really good results by mounting my cameras to the panniers. They're far out enough that you can see most of the front of the bike (and rider), but a good portion of the road in front of you. The footage was also pretty steady, so I was very pleased:

Here's a short piece of unedited video from the Pyrenees, that I put up to answer a similar question:
https://youtu.be/ffIfIyWHNAY

If you look at the photo from my profile banner, you'll see how my Contour +2 was attached to the pannier with a rotating surface mount, and secured with a lanyard.
I had a similar mount on the other pannier for a rear view with my other Contour Roam.

Although I'm using the Garmin VIRB X, the RAM mount can be used for most camera's. I thought it was quite a challenge finding a proper spot and finally I'm using the screw of the mirror. The Garmin Virb remote is attached to the clutch reservoir.

Oh, sorry for all the dead flies. Should try to clean the bike someday.

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Zitat von Holger im Beitrag #14

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But it can already be controlled with the BMW Navi VI.

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I bought the screw for the mirror like TenCats, but not installed it yet. Now I use an old RAM handlebar mount I had laying around, will test it next weekend to see now many vibrations get through.