Help need with fitting a bullet cam to R1200 GS

[advancedbiker]

I an struggling a bit......

I have just bought a 2008 R1200GS and I am presently kitting it up like my Honda VFR 800 which had bullet cams fitted front and rear for my Advanced Motorcycle Training. I have been looking at the BMW all afternoon and I am at a loss to find a suitable place to mount bullet cameras. It looks if I will have to revert back to a helmet cam.

Anyone any tips, anything welcome.
Bullet cams feed into camcorder in tankbag - This is sorted,

Regards

Nigel

 

[MikeP]

I have a two-bullet camera set-up on my GS but it's an 1150. One is a fixed, forward facing, the other I sometimes mount on my helmet and sometimes use as a rear facing.

I can't really help you much more than say that for the forward facing one I tried a variety of mount types and locations. A Dogcam rubber suction-cup mount provided enough damping to avoid any wobble or vibrations destroying the image but it wasn't secure enough, or particularly useful because it needed re-aligning each time it was mounted.

What I did find is that the Boxer harmonics at certain revs were difficult to avoid with any fixed mount. That may be less of a problem with a 1200 but I doubt that it's eradicated altogether.

In the end I have found that the bullet camera mounted with a P-Clip to the guard of a Micro DE fog-lamp puts the camera at the right height, allows a corner of the beak to be just in-frame to provide a reference and as the Micro DE bracket has some in-built damping to prevent the light from wobbling like mad, it gives me a very steady image.

 

[Marks adventure]

Bit like this i guess

 

[advancedbiker]

Thanks Mark, I thought of a light bar... Where can you get these P clips from, other than E bay ?

 

[Marks adventure]

Thanks Mark, I thought of a light bar... Where can you get these P clips from, other than E bay ?

Mine came with the cam, but do a search for P Clips and loads are available in the net.

 

[MikeP]

Mark, very much like that (only I opted for the other side).

The "cap" is a walking-stick rubber ferrule that I found in a hardware shop. It does a good job of protecting the camera when not in use.

Thanks Mark, I thought of a light bar... Where can you get these P clips from, other than E bay ?

I just utilised the P-Clip that came with the Dogcam suction mounts.

 

[advancedbiker]

Do you get much vibration, other than the normal bm thing

 

[MikeP]

No. It seems to work very well, even on some pretty rough pistes in Morocco.

As I said earlier, I tried other places, from engine bars to screen mounting screws but in all other positions I found that the engine vibes would cause some distortion at a certain point in the rev-range.

 

[advancedbiker]

Camera fitted - Thanks for the advice and help

Well the camera is fitted and system working, well at least in the garage. Will try it out tomorrow. In the end fitted it to a new headlight guard that came today. May not be any good, but work in progress:

And it works...

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[LEGOscum]

Where can you get these P clips from, other than E bay ?

I found these:

http://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/product/321

Hope it helps.

 

[GunZenBomZ]

brilliant share Legoscum

 

[LEGOscum]

I was a bit late to help advancedbiker out though. But at least we've got a link to a cheap supplier.

 

[gsman1]

Bulet cam

go on internet and go to http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/roll-bar-cage-mounts.htm
they do a unit that fixes to underside if 08 indictaors if standard not led, brilliant I used it on my 08 GS