Kelly's Heros

Today saw me return to the saddle for the third epic ride of the week, when I met up with Andy, Kelly and Jason (My RideLondon buddy - still not too late to sponsor me at https://www.justgiving.com/Jonathan-Read-Bone/) for a 50+ mile ride out to Culmstock, following a route we took on last years AVP 100 miler.

Kelly's Heros

The weather, route and company was wonderful and the ride event free, no bonking, punctures or mechanicals to speak of .. who could ask for more.

As I hinted on Thursday, I took delivery of a new camera bracket yesterday and so took the opportunity on this ride to test out a new raised and forward position for the camera and real sound in place of a backing track - hoping moving the camera away from cables and the forks would reduce previous interference. In creating the final video, I also tested out an interesting piece of software from Garmin, their VIRB Edit code, which enable one to add interesting telemetry to the video, similar to that you see shown on TV during Formula 1 races. The final results were mixed .. the video quality still seems to be good, the sound a little improved but the telemetry is challenging and time consuming to add, such that you'll only see it, in this edit, in two scenes. Let me know what you think.

I may have started something with this video lark, as Kelly turned up today with a helmet mounted GoPro, more usually found attached to her kayak. So we benefit today in having two complimentary videos of the ride, with Kelly's including a few and rare shots or yours truly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VwO3BxiWTU

Oh yes.. and what's the relevance of today's blog title? Well, the AVP like to give out nicknames and on Tuesday, Buster struck on 'Hero' for Kelly, after the classic 1970's film starting Clint Eastwood. You can make up the rest. I'm now looking forward for Kelly's next video to be accompanied by the film's soundtrack ;)