BOC collection - favourite music to listen to when driving my van...
I posted a real good film by a Boards of Canada fan in August of 2021, here is the link to the blog post incase you missed it; History of Boards Of Canada
I really enjoyed watching that and not having done much online searching for new BOC related features until recently came across this more recent Fan made docu film which is really good, it's quite long but covers a lot of interesting facts about the brothers and their music and looking at the comments it is quite obvious many people don't know where they are today.... actual fact is their a few miles of coast away from here in the Shire... but respect peoples privacy and let them be...
This is such a good documentary on Scottish band Boards of Canada, it is just a 1 minute documentary
but the full 1 hour plus film is on Youtube but strangely does not link so you will have to go searching from this link....
Was out with G a cycle along at JMCP and I set the Go Pro HERO 10 camera I recently bought to 4K settings as before but having now worked out you have to start editing your film with a 4K film clip to get the film to publish in 4K (I previously used a picture) I now ask is the 4K really worth the bother when you wait 2 hours for the PC to save the film to then wait 4+ hours (I went to bed) for the film to upload in 4K for what 60 -90 folks to watch it - yep welcome to Instagram and other phone to media uploads that the youngsters use now for instant internet publication along with hashtag `look at me and how many hits I can have` which it seems is really what it is about these days on the internet - there is a reason I follow very few other cyclists online as they are obsessed with getting viewings and ratings and free sh** to review - which is not why I cycle... believe me I love my Surly steel Fatbikes but their day is gone and they as a company have no interest in the bikes I love to cycle and this is a sad day to say this but I get a lot of emails and FB msgs from fellow owners saying this - I can only reply with saying to keep what you own and ride it as you love it... and to hell with marketing and what the mainstream cycling folk say you should be cycling...
My Fatbike is my Gravel bike....
Ha Ha had to say that- never read or watched so much bull on Youtube regarding these bikes, but you know?let folk get on with it if they think there as awesome as the marketing gurus say they are...
G and I have a load of Pugsley 2.0 Fatbikes that tick all the boxes and will keep us rolling the rest pot our cycling years, rant over... let me know in the comments if you think publishing films in 4K is really worth it for the amount of waiting time they take for the reality of viewers on here - I already know that answer and will try 2.7K upload next to see the time it takes, but prob just use 1080 as the first film I uploaded was really impressive with the quality and upload speed it took which was quick along the same time as my older Go Pro HERO 8 camera...
In other news this film made on Feb 14 - Valentines Day was 20 years since Scottish Alternative Electronic band Boards Of Canada released their album `Geogaddi` so it seems for to use a cool track from the album - `Music Is Math`
Be so cool to take the guys from BOC out a beach ride when they live locally...
A dry fine Sunday 2 weeks ago so took the opportunity to give the Jeep a drive around town and put some fuel in it and popped along to Barnes Ness and back...
Surfs up at Belhaven!, a lot of folk out, I need to get some form of watercraft to go out with G on her Stand Up Paddle board!...
The Jeep is running really good despite having sat mostly the last 2 months...
You cannot expect to buy a Jeep that is at its youngest 55 years old and expect to not need to have ongoing work to do on it, along with routine maintenance and as has excuse the pun unravelled is that the wiring is in a shocking state and while everything needed was working it was very untidy, and needing attention,
So midweek Al who is a qualified Sparky popped round and gave the wiring a once over and found a few things I would never have noticed...
Bad earths is the main culprit, but also the use of house electrical wiring! in the loom which he has now replaced along with better connectors...
Look at this connector for instance, it just came apart!, wrong colour wires that all seem to turn green or blue having started off from the firewall in a specific colour, a real mash up!
Poor earths everywhere...
I fixed a cracked silencer mount and loose exhaust silencer mounting bracket while Al worked through the wiring loom ...
We finally added some rear indicators for which I bought for £15 from a Kit Car online shop and they just needed drilling 21mm holes in the tub for mounting...
Bought this for £15 down the street and is the bizz for drilling!, I marked the 20mm with a sharpie and soon had 2 holes drilled...
I did not want big bulbous lamps on stalks like many post war Jeeps have and these will be bright enough to be seen flashing while remaining quite stealth...
While also its good to have rear indicators that are clear and bright...
On the front of the Jeep no one would know the front black out lights have in fact orange bulbs in them and be rerouted wiring for front indicators...
Connected up they were working ok after Al went through the mish mash of wiring which changes colours on the loom from the firewall to the rear - yeah really!, with loose connectors and crazy lengths of wires wrapped around the main loom which get warm with power going through them it's amazing there had not been a fire Al says in the 2500 miles I have driven in the last year!...
Lanoguard Moto Grease waterproofed the connectors of the rear indicators and I also sprayed it all after greasing with Lanoguard spray...
The rear lights and Brake lights are now also correct...
Al is going to make a new wiring loom to completely replace the mish mash mess and it should then be a safer set up too, more on that when he can get it made and installed!...
My 2 year old Go Pro HERO 8 Black whilst having fantastic image stabilisation has been bugged with a few recurring glitches that whilst small can be real irritating when they happen as they will inevitably when your filming with other folk and/or in weather that you don't want to be opening the side door that accesses the battery. Numerous times I have factory reset it and had updates via the Go Pro App - I even phoned the help line and had a helpful conversation with someone but the camera was soon back to its old trick of freezing and not starting up requiring the side door to be opened - which usually comes off and drops onto the beach to pull out and re install the battery...
Now imagine if you were out paddle boarding or out cycling in horrific weather be it rain or a real windy day on the coast with sand blowing everywhere?, yeah you can see the dilemma... so when Go Pro Annouced a deal on the HERO 10 of £299 if your a Go Pro member -that allows you amongst other things to store your files on the Go Pro Cloud instead of filling your PC I went for it and it arrived a few days later...
Like the older HERO 8 and previous HERO 9 the new cameras require linking with wi fi to the GO Pro App and checking for updates since manufacture. This also registers your Go Pro with its serial number so if there were any recalls by Go Pro you may/could get a new replacement. There are loads of set up how to YouTube films so I won't go into all that here, but I did buy a second battery with my order as the newer cameras have less battery life time with the increase in tech...
Finally I got to try it out after a weekend of no cycling and today with both batteries mains charged as recommended (not on a PC) I used the bar mount to carry it and mostly filmed using the selfie stick mono pod which had a diy stable stand for leaning in on logs or posts etc for point to point shooting...
1st big improvement on the HERO 10 is the raised buttons allowing operation with 3 season gloves on and you can even swipe the back screen and change function wearing gloves...
I previously switched off everything I will prob not use to help save battery life, so that's the wi fi - I never use my phone to operate my cameras, the voice control, the front screen which is for using for vlogging - I actually hate YouTube footage of peoples face all the time instead of seeing where they are - walking Vlogs are esp irritating when you want to see the scenery or trails!, anyways with all that switched off I last night set my standard film mode and Activity mode - again this is simple to do - again watch some of the many Youtube vids...
My Standard setting is going to probably be 4K Wide (I used to use the lower 1080 on the 8 camera), with 60 frames per second...
And for the activity again 4K Wide but with 120 frames per second for doing some slow mo scenes...
While filming mostly using the Standard setting for point to point and hand held on the mono pod , I swapped easily to Activity setting for where I wanted to add some slow mo scenes with the camera stationery on an object. I easily switched to Camera Setting and took a couple of pics, these look good, certainly good enough for using on the Blog...
So far overall the camera has been more user friendly than my 2 year old HERO 8 Black which has had continued glitches as previously mentioned, with easier to operate buttons when wearing mountain bike gloves and a larger easier to swipe back screen to switch functions...
Back home and I checked how much battery I had after doing the usual amount of filming and it was at 66% remaining, along with all the other things I doubt I will ever use will help save battery life, but they are there if I want to experiment, I prob will try 5K and see what its like but mostly I will use these settings as today as watching the film on the TV it looked good!...
Update; Unknown to me until I uploaded the film my PC did not publish the film in 4K but 1080 as it has to be 4K by 60 frames per second in the first frame and I started with pictures!, anyway here it is in 1080 and hopefully the next film will be in 4K!
So time to see a published film with cool slow speed action without any jittering of picture,
G plotted a loop around some new Windfarm tracks down the road in Berwickshire so we drove down the A1 and parked up enjoyed cycling to familiar places on new tracks, and what lovely tracks, doing some lovely old unmaintained roads _ these would be classes as Green Lanes over the border in England, and Berwickshire has loads of these.... and these old roads were linked with super gravel highway maintenance tracks past the new turbines..
Drone Hill was incorperated into the loop and despite the state of the caravan park it is always nice to pass through as look at some of the remaining structures...
Super gravel highway! - perfect for 29inch wheels on G`s bike and my 29+ wheeled Surly Wednesday...
Came across an abandoned van with a camper conversion...
A mike from the busy A1 main east era road into Scotland and it felt like we were miles from anyone up on the Moor...
Wee film from the day, Song is `Nighthawk` by Jaytech
I live in East Lothian, S.E. Scotland.
I fill my time with my hobbies, interests and passions. Often cycling along the coast here. I ride steel bikes with big wheels, I like to enjoy all interests of the coast, Its scenery, wildlife, local history, with my other interests in art and music when out and about...
I was diagnosed with Relapsing remitting Multiple Sclerosis in August 2018, it`s early days but i plan to continue to live my life as i have and show that having a medical condition like MS does not mean you need to stop enjoying your life,
Please excuse the bad grammar, i am working on it!
