My Freewheel video

BentMikey

http://www.skatevideoslive.com/cycling- ... -2007.html

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graeme_s-2

What a great video Mikey, it looks like a brilliant event! Is the little boy you appear to be following Little Mikey by any chance?

There are heaps of photographs on flickr as well:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=london% ... heel&w=all

Edit: I particularly enjoyed all the kids (and probably half the adults) shrieking as you went into the tunnel near the beginning

BentMikey

Thanks!!! Yes, that's miniMikey. What a great day out!!!

boncey

Excellent, what time of day was this?
We went around at about 1pm and it seemed a lot busier than your video.

Awesome day though and your video really captures the spirit of it.

fossyant

Shame we don't do that in Manchester !

BentMikey

It was between 12 and 1, roughly.

peejay78

it was busy when i got there. i saw some skaters behind some kind of wheeled boombox contraption thingy.

a fun day was had by all.

ChrisLS

...what a fantastic day it must have been. Although I live out in the sticks I will make the effort to get into London next time...excellent film Mikey thanks for posting it

Totalnewbie

I looked for you Mikey but none of the skaters I saw were you I don't think. I had an excellent time rattling along on the old bike.

Could not believe the attitude of one motorists though as I rode to the route in one of the hub rides. It was a convoy full of little kids, but didn't stop him leaning out of his window, on his phone, and telling us repeatedly that we were all w***ers who should 'buy a car'. I really wanted to shout something back but nothing came to mind that didn't involve four letter words and I was thinking of the children...!

whome

It looks excellent - it took me ages to figure out whether you were on skates (high shots) or a recumbent (low shots). Very confused, and then I realised that you had the camera on a stick!! neat. Is that just the helmet cam part on the stick and recorder part elsewhere, or small solid state device?

graeme_s-2

whome wrote:

It looks excellent - it took me ages to figure out whether you were on skates (high shots) or a recumbent (low shots). Very confused, and then I realised that you had the camera on a stick!! neat. Is that just the helmet cam part on the stick and recorder part elsewhere, or small solid state device?

I went through the same thought process - bicycle, recumbent, skates, camera onna stick!

BentMikey

LOL, sorry! Yes, it's just a standard DV camera, an old Sony PC110, on a manfrotto monopod.

whome

You are pretty good at aiming it for the "odd" shots - Could you see the screen showing the picture?

BentMikey

Thanks! It's more luck, you should have seen the cutting floor.

helz

I was at this on Sunday as well - it was so much fun! I hope it becomes an annual thing. I enjoyed the London Bridge to Buckingham Palace bit so much that I did it twice. The atmosphere was great and it was excellent seeing so many kids and families on their bikes. I enjoyed the free sandwiches and other freebies at the festival as well

helz

Oh yes and I saw Boris!

neslon

That looked tremendous - They should organise one of those every day to the middle of the Great Wen, down a different route. It almost made London look not horrible!

rockhoppergaz

Great video why cant every day be like that?