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Blog or Brag?

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I do sometimes think that some blogs are a chance for the writer to brag about themselves. Perhaps those should be called 'Brags' not 'Blogs' :lol:

This is neither, just me having fun. I don't have a dashcam and although I could buy one for under 20 quid I thought how much more fun to create one. I had a suction cup from an old satnav and as the X10 is a relatively light camera I thought I would see what I could do. Well, with a little bit of wrecking of the cup mounting I managed to mount the camera and decided to try it out with a short drive along the road.

It is a bit jumpy and I have work to do but to continue my Brag, I would hope to do some short clips of driving the streets of my home city to show you around. As most of the city is pedestrianised I would have to either, get up very early or, get out on a Sunday morning. Just need to improve the system first.

This is my short drive almost to the paper shop that I visit each morning......just for fun. :lol:

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Smoooooth cam work grandad ;) :up
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Post by LovelyLadyLux »

Heyyyyyyyyyyyy super neat idea!! And I more than enjoyed your wee drive! Super great idea Grandad! And it really wasn't jumpy at all, at least not the kind of 'jumpy' I was expecting when you first started out. Might have to try that myself ;)

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Great idea Grandad :up it's amazing what you guys can make up :) & I didn't think it was jumpy at all :)
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That was really good, Grandad. I dont like your streets with the bits sticking out, you have to put your foot down before another car comes, very boy racer.
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Jayway wrote: I dont like your streets with the bits sticking out
I don't like them either Jay. Supposed to be 'traffic calming' but I call them 'suspension crunchers'. I have actually seen two vehicles hit the jutting out kerbs and smashed their front suspension. One was a very nice Jag :(
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Post by LovelyLadyLux »

Talking about the jutting out bits - I think they'd be super annoying. I can't see anyway they're supposed to be calming.

One good snow storm here and they'd be totally covered until your front bumper fount it under the snow! To me that is just cluttering up the streets.
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LLL, they are typical of the crap that our idiotic councils get away with putting everywhere in the name of traffic calming measures, just a bloody nuisance :x
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I went out to try a bit more dashcam video but it was so shaky I dumped it and decided my lash up hol;der was not up to it.
A quick check on ebay found a much more robust holder, here is mine on left and the ebay offering on right. I have ordered one.
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Oh! Forgot to say, the ebay one comes from Hong Kong, total cost including delivery £1.35. How do they do it? :lol: :lol:
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You'll soon manage a run around Canterbury Cathedral............just for me ;)
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You do have to wonder Grandad :ni: the only problem is they can take a while sometimes, but if you're not in a hurry, its fine. :up
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No hurry Horus, I have loads of time.............I hope.................not holding my breath :lol: :lol:
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