Anti Vibration Mount (camera – motorbike)

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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Can anyone suggest a sipmplish but effective design for an anti vibration mount for a video camera.

Bought a new compact today for use in the workshop. This is because I really don't wish to turn my expensive SLR all grubby and like a bar of soap with oil etc on it. lol Besides it does not shoot video.! I have been using an iphone in there and wanted something a bit better.

Anyway. I could not resist attaching said new camera to my motorbike and shooting some video. The result is AWFUL.!!! Just so, so bad due to vibration.

This is how bad. **LINK**

Anyone any ideas without it turning into a NASA scale engineering project.

I should add the bike is not 'vibey' and is quite smooth to ride. But this makes it look like a bone rattler from hell. lol

Nick

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

That's horrible, Nick

… We got better on an Armoured Personnel Carrier, with the camera on a rigid mount !

Can you please post a photo of how it's mounted.

MichaelG.

[MalcBParticipant @malcb52554]

Have a look at http://www.techmoan.com review on the Pedco camera clamp. I use one myself and am quite pleased with it so far.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by Malc Broadbent on 21/03/2015 22:11:08:

Have a look at http://www.techmoan.com review on the Pedco camera clamp. I use one myself and am quite pleased with it so far.

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That's the exact same one I used today.

Nick

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Nick, how many cylinders on your bike. I once had a Matchless 500cc single, made my eyeballs do that.

Dave

[MalcBParticipant @malcb52554]

not tried it on my Harley yet

Was faultless on my Triumph Explorer before I sold it and is now on my MV Brutale. Each time just clamped on the mirror stem and not behind a screen either. My camera is a Sony HDR – AS15.

What camera are you using Nick and where are you clamping?

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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Hi guy's and thanks for the replies.

4 cyl 600 Honda Hornet.

Camera mount was clamped to the mirror stem which is reasonably stable as its mounted to the support bracket for the fairing as close to the root of the stem as possible.

Camera is a Canon G16

I will try a different mounting point tomorrow if I get chance. Perhaps in the center of the bars and shoot through the screen. That may also cut down the wind noise too.

Cheers, Nick

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Sorry if this is the daft question of the century, so please do not shoot me down if you have already thought of it.

Have you made sure the camera image stabilisation is set to "on" ?

Edited By V8Eng on 21/03/2015 23:22:20

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

Mount it on your helmet – your body is an excellent vibe damper.

Failing that look online for Isodamp or Sorbothane materials. JD

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by Jeff Dayman on 21/03/2015 23:22:54:

Mount it on your helmet – your body is an excellent vibe damper.

You want me to drill a hole in my carbon fiber helmet and ride round with a box on my head.? lol

Being an 'action cam' to be fair was not really in the design equation of the G16. But it would be nice to have a play at that, but being honest it's not what I bought it for so it's not a major issue. It has however got my brain ticking for a solution to the vibration issue.

Cheers, Nick

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Nick, I've had several Hondas and the mirrors always vibrate, my CBR600 was particularly bad in this respect, your engine is derived from this.

You can buy a shoulder mount, a well known pirate had a parrot on his.

Dave

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Not exactly relevant, but when you get it working, run the resulting video through HandyAvi, keep very 5th or 10th frame and make a time lapse movie after the style of "London to Brighton …."

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Pinch a gyro stabalised gimble off a drone etc, might have to sell the bike first to afford one like this

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by JasonB on 22/03/2015 07:42:26:

… one like this

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Jason,

That looks an amazing little unit, and; if it performs to specification, a bargain price.

the original Heli-Tele [which we vibration tested] was a little upmarket from that.

Nick's underlying problems are the size and weight of his camera; which far exceed the GoPro for which that stabiliser is intended.

MichaelG.

[FMESParticipant @fmes]

Posted by Jeff Dayman on 21/03/2015 23:22:54:

Mount it on your helmet – your body is an excellent vibe damper.

Not good, thats what almost killed Schumacher.

[Dave MartinParticipant @davemartin29320]

Posted by JasonB on 22/03/2015 07:42:26:

Pinch a gyro stabalised gimble off a drone etc, might have to sell the bike first to afford one like this

Not sure those basic gyro-stabilised mounts will help. They can damp relatively low frequency variations in yaw, pitch & roll caused by change in the vehicle's attitude – but (unless extremely sophisticated) are unlikely to cope with engine and road roughness vibration.

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

Tere is an interesting product called zeal gel (Align do a thinner version) that we used to damp vibration in r/c gasser helis for their gyros. I vaguelly recall a video showing a sheet of similar stuff being used to cushion an egg dropped from 20 or 30 feet wthout cracking. But even with zeal gel we used to find the need for a metal plate added on top of it to help damp out some vibes.

If you knew the vibe frequency was going to be in a limited range then a nount with arms and weights might be tuned tuned for that. I;ve used similar as long rod stabilisers in target archery. Not that'd you'ld want rods of that order sticking out anywhere waiting to impale you….

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

pgk pgk,

Honda use the motorcycle mirrors as harmonic dampers, it's very sophisticated engineering, no British company did it.

Dave

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