(BCF) Return of the Tank Cam!

[Korn]

While I was in bed with a sore throat on Monday my helper monkey saw the lovely weather outside and, unable to stop himself, stole my video camera and the keys to my bike and set off to terrorize the poor motorists of the south east.

He returned (in one piece, it has to be said) with 60 minutes of footage which frankly scares me. Bad monkey, bad! I've cut out some short clips, they're available in 3 formats:

• The DivX videos are the best quality, but you'll need the DivX 5.0 codec to watch them (which you can download from here)
  
• The Mpeg videos are also good quality and they'll play on everybody's computers (but are larger than the others)
  
• The Wmv videos are the smallest, so if you're on a modem these are your best bet - they'll play in Media Player 5.0 and above.

And here are the videos:

• Down into the valleys - 1:10 minutes - DivX (9.06 Mb) - Mpeg (11.5 Mb) - Wmv (6.00 Mb)
  
• Tree lined road - 0:39 minutes - DivX (5.41 Mb) - Mpeg (6.53 Mb) - Wmv (3.43 Mb)
  
• High speed sweepers - 1:06 minutes - DivX (8.41 Mb) - Mpeg (10.08 Mb) - Wmv (5.65 Mb)
  
• Twisty madness - 0:59 minutes - DivX (7.62 Mb) - Mpeg (9.99 Mb) - No Wmv yet
  

Update: Here's 4 more clips:

• Bumpy road - 1:10 minutes - DivX (9.54 Mb) - Mpeg (11.76 Mb) - No Wmv yet
  
• Dodging traffic - 1:05 minutes - DivX (8.49 Mb) - Mpeg (10.86 Mb) - No Wmv yet
  
• Scratching - 1:10 minutes - DivX (8.98 Mb) - Mpeg (11.69 Mb) - No Wmv yet
  
• Rolling hills - 1:40 minutes - DivX (12.88 Mb) - Mpeg (16.67 Mb) - No Wmv yet

He also wants me to mention that no monkeys were actually harmed during the production of these video nasties, though some traffic laws may have been bent just a teensy bit.

[rs125]

Does anybody else have problems watching these vids?

[retrofly]

hi
ermm korn it aint working it just say's "connecting" at the bottom and nothing happens, and yes i have downloaded divex. whats up korn?

Luke
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[Korn]

What you need to do is right click on the download links and choose "Save As" then save the file to your desktop, and open it once it's done. Otherwise if you just click it as usual windows will try to play it live and most probably screw up.

[rs125]

done that. You can see the video but its covered with flashing green & yellow lines. The video doesn't play, you can only see the first frame.

[retrofly]

Hi
ok i got the first one but downloaded it just as the window and not saved to my computer, is that why its very jurkey?

Luke
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[Korn]

[rs125]

Download, still dont work. Probably my computer.

[Korn]

That's odd, I tried it here at work with DivX 4.0 and it gave me just the first frame, downloading the upgrade fixed it though. Maybe you need to give your computer a reeboot?

[rs125]

Nice vids.

Some dodgy overtakes & some dodgy lines through the corners.

[Dan]

works for me cool vids

[Korn]

[retrofly]

Hi
yeah korn it works now, dodgy overtaking that coach though i cant belive u would do summin like that

Luke
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[Phil.]

Some nice vids there korn, should keep em commin.

That was abit of a dodgy over takin past that coach...but the peg scrapin round the round a bout makes up for that

[minesweeper]

very nice skills, but dont overtake on corners! especily multiple overtakes and a coach! crazy you would have had a head on with combined speed around 100mph..... ouch

matt

[Korn]

Perhaps I'd better explain that one, the bend with the coach nearly goes back on itself - you can't see if from the camera's viewpoint but when you're riding it all you have to do is look to the left across the field and you have a clear view of everything up to the sharp left following it and a few hundred meters beyond that as well.

That's why the monkey decided to overtake the whole queue at such a silly speed, 'cos there was nothing coming for about 2 miles.

[Scooby]

You ain't told em bout that green Subabru behind the bus with 2 rear view mirrors and flashing blue lights in the grille that the monkey got away from Korn.
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[Korn]

Shuuuussssshhhhhhhhh

[Scooby]

Was it the monkeys sliders that touched the deck or just the pegs Korn???
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[TiN]

Nice vids Korn...just out of interest, how fast were going along that "treelined" vid?...I don't think that the video reflected the true speed...

Tin

[Zimma]

top of fifth.. 130ish
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[TiN]

Cool...cheers Zim...

Tin

[Korn]

Unfortunatly the camera's mic didn't pick up on the kneedowns because monkey only had plastic sliders which don't make much noise, so you can't hear them, but in the downhill video the monkey gets the peg down as well as his knee[1] round the big roundabout and you can hear the metal scraping quite nicely.

Aso he tells me he's particularly proud of having his knee down round the last right hander in the sweeper video at 130mph...

[1] Do monkeys even have knees?

[Scooby]

No go jumping the gun, wait for Korn to ask the monkey first.
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[Mole]

Kin...............El Korn, still shitting myself watching the Vid's

Your bike sound great! makes mine sound like a bag of spanners

Gota get a race can, my Honda standard one sounds like shit!

By the the way, aint broad band great! downloaded all the Vid's at the same time in a few mins!

Mole, (Still recovering from the watching the Vids)
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