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I finally got the last of my issues sorted out yesterday and took her for a test drive.  Came back home with a ridiculous grin on my face.  I drove her to work this morning even though it was crazy windy and in the mid 30's F.  This week I am doing an oil change and then she's all set for the riding season. 

As for the house, they just started on it this week.  I need to get in touch with the contractor for more details.  I will keep everyone up to date on both the road adventures and the house progress.  Thanks for all the well wishes and for those of you who think the back end of that tow truck driver needs some dents, you should have heard what my wife and 9 year old daughter had to say on the matter.  😆  The insurance company took care of all the damages though so I took the high road and focused on getting my VFR back on the road.  Crest Road take 2 this weekend after the oil change!

Sorry.  I didn't upload the photos correctly but they are all there now.  Unfortunately they are in the reverse order so start at the bottom and work your way up if you want to follow chronological order.  🙃

Such awesome scenery and no lack of adventures on you trip. It's killing me as I haven't gotten to do any real riding all last season. Thanks for sharing.

I was planning to do that this trip but that would have ment another day or adding 200 miles on top of 500. Nobody else wanted to do it with me.

Not true! But that would have turned a 1 day ride into 2 and my kitchen pass wasn't long enough. :goofy:

I had a great time regardless of the 40 miles of crappy chip seal. :musik20:

As for making you take the lead I figured you had the radar detector, the Zumo, and had been down the roads we were taking before (where I had not) so I figured it made the most sense to let you up front. I dropped to the back and road sweep to make sure we didn't lose anyone. :fing02:

We will have to try that again except maybe I will sneak down that way before hand to make sure we don't fall into the gravel trap ahead of time. Thanks for joining us and doing the ride report. I have been so damn busy between work, school, and home that I can't even remember what day of the week it is most of the time! :goofy:

Great job on the reports. It never ceases to amaze me the level of quality people that can be found on this site. :fing02:

Now I am glad I canceled the ride for that weekend. I am hoping the traffic will die down as well when I head out near the end of this month as well. Some awesome photos. Thanks for the preview of what is to come! Even in the rain that Black Canyon ride looked incredible and now I am will have to add the Cotechetopa Canyon to yet another ride next time I am going through there. I wasn't sure I was going to like the perspective of looking at the back of your knee but it turned out pretty nice once you got moving and the shaking was hardly a distraction to me. Great job of making my wait until the end of the month even worse. :goofy:

I dont have a clue which version I have, its pretty basic how it works, I used the low setting with the wider angle and 60fps, Yes all I got was wind noise too, I was gonna figure that one out. I mounted it behind the windsheild for one run and I got more engine sound but it was buzzy and well I did not record the best parts.

I rerendered the Lovelandpass video - trying to make the HD off more simple and less resource intensive and made the HD version render at higher resolution bit rate, so the oposite. The loveland video is easier to view on slower connections or slower computers. I basically uploaded it to vimeo hosting service then took the mp4 files from the brower cache then analized them to see how they rendered them, then copied the settings for the loveland video and rendered it in sony vega with the same settings as vimeo used. JWplayer will play mp4 files so I uploaded it the vfrd server and viola HD vfrd video!

Sounds like you got the 2nd generation. My ContourHD renders HD into a .mov file (Apple format) and it's a PIA to convert to an AVI format and the quality loss is quite noticeable. The Contour has a new firmware update that allows you to set the dB level of the mic which might cut down on the wind noise but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. You can also vary some other settings to alter color balance and lighting as well. And you are definitely right about being easy to use. That's one of the many reasons I chose it over other models out there. You should check this site out if you want some good reviews on helmet cams:

Helmet Cam Central

Again, once I get my video editing software I plan on getting some of the footage from the Summer Summit meet up but there is not point right now if all you get is wind noise for a sound track and a poor quality conversion from MOV to AVI. :dry:

Seeing your videos though definitely gives me hopes of what the results will be. :fing02:

Did you get the 1st or 2nd generation of the ContourHD cam? I have the first one and it's pretty sweet. What quality were you recording at? I just leave mine on the highest setting but the 60fps doesn't work well for editing. Of course all I have is crappy free ware editing software which I hope to fix here pretty soon. The microphone sucks as all I get is wind noise. There is a way to cut that out but wrapping the camera in Styrofoam seems a big waste of time if it is going to be on a helmet.

Regardless, both the videos were cool. I am so itching to get another shot at Colorado!

I am attempting to get ZiaVFR to follow me through southern CO sometime here in the next few weeks and this story with those pics are killing me! Great to hear you are loving the Veefalo though and I love the poetic justice ending for the idiot cager. :fing02:

Great job. Looks pretty darn good and if you sell it someone will have the joy of a VFR to run around on. One of these days I may attempt something similar just because it's fun to learn about the VFR without having to give up the riding time. :fing02:

Man... I feel your pain.

Let's open a poll as to the "reasons" work does NOT get done on the bike. One of the items must include "put a hole in the ceiling". :)

Is this the pain you feel:

Cause I do!!! Softball sized bruise on my leg, now a nice black color.

Daaayammn.... Sorry to hear about that! I actually got everything I wanted to get done on the VFR this weekend for a change. :blink:

Just goes to show you...size isn't all that matters after all. :goofy:

Lol.... and here I was going to give you crap about falling in love with Radar's mirrors. :goofy:

It's what happens when you get a mix of riders reading your adventures. ;)

Great views...now post up some close ups of your ride so I can see the gory details! :P

Looks good from there though. :thumbsup:

Let me know when you get the Flaf back...I so want to have an excuse to make a run at Colorado! And next time you are driving through New Mexico PM me...

89k miles...I love the sound of that. :thumbsup: