Motorcycle rigs

Has anyone made one? Just curious as to A) how it would be done, and B) things you'd have to look out for in a deep leaning turn. I think it would be cool to have one mounted high above the rider looking down, or on the outside of the bike in a deep turn. Closest I have done has been a RAM small camera suction cup mount on the tank. I don't have any photos from it at the moment but they are on a harddrive somewhere.

This is an old scanned film shot from years ago...

Had a GoPro HD. Didn't use the still camera function and the videos were too much for my current computer setup for any sort of editing. I meant a typical rig shot where you would get the whole car (bike in this case) in the image.

JMartel wrote in post #11614379
Had a GoPro HD. Didn't use the still camera function and the videos were too much for my current computer setup for any sort of editing. I meant a typical rig shot where you would get the whole car (bike in this case) in the image.

Oh... Nope, never done that.

I'm not a a car shooter, but it's my understanding most of those rig shots are done at a relatively low vehicle speed and a slow shutter speed to get the sense of motion. I'd think that would be counterproductive for motorcycle photography because the slower you ride the more difficult the bike is to handle.

Correct. I'm trying to think up a way of mounting it that will make it sturdy enough to ride at a semi-reduced speed but dampen the vibrations. Not sure if it would be possible or worth the effort. I just don't want to rely on a chase car for rolling shots.

when i do my rig shots, the car is literally rolled at no more than 1-2 mph with a 3-4 second shutter.. unless you had training wheels on the bike i dont think you could use the same method with it, lol.

as far as a rig.. since the bike is so much smaller, specially if you had a nice wide angle lens, you could probably find a way to hand the cam off the side and snap a picture at a very high speed to minimize the vibration.. i would bet that at 50-60 mph with a shutter speed of 1/60 you can get really nice motion blur without having too much vibration in the image..

another way i could think of ghetto-rigging a self-motion-shot on a bike would be to do exactly what i just said to get an image of the blurred background and the rider, and then snap another still image of the bike not rolling to get some detail, and overlay the images to bring back some of the detail in the bike ontop of the blurred background.. but seems like its too much effort for something like that

Unfortunately I don't have any of the pictures I took with it, but I did have a small RAM mount for the tank of my bike. I popped my XT and the kit lens on a few times over the summer and rode it at full speed. 1/100s was enough to get some decent blur. I'm thinking you could maybe build a rig that attaches to the fork and puts the camera out in front of the bike? Wouldn't need to be too far for a wide angle lens. Attach at 2 points on each fork and it should be stable enough. Plus with it out front you wouldn't worry about it scraping in a turn.