Video - Summer 2011 - [TASF]Overkill and I spend 7 days in Colorado

MaverickH1 · 10-18-2011, 04:44 AM

Video tribute to the beauty of Colorado, and the awesomeness of seeing it on 2 wheels on a 7 day trip with your brother. Best watched with audio turned up on a good sound system, in my opinion.

Engineer Pass, Imogene Pass, Cinnamon Pass, California Pass, Corkscrew Gulch, Hurricane Pass, Owl Creek Pass, the Black Canyons, the road to Silverjack Reservoir, Montrose's 4th of July Parade

, and more.

Untitled from MaverickH1 on Vimeo.

This is really my first try at a real video. Windows Movie Maker absolutely killed the quality. I will never use that program again. It took me a month to stitch the pieces of the video together, 2 months to get Movie Maker to actually save the thing. Cameras were a GoPro Hero HD, and a Samsung TL320 point and shoot still camera that also takes bad movies.

GSteve · 10-18-2011, 05:59 AM

Excellent!

[TASF]Overkill · 10-18-2011, 06:49 AM

Thanks Mav. :-) Good times. Good. Times.

We try to take a one week trip every year on the bikes. I've been doing it for 3 years, we've been doing it as a brother team for 2. Not sure where next year will land us, but I know there's still a lot of Colorado to see!

Oh, oh, also... I took a KLR with a blown out shock to Colorado and then loaded it down with all of our luggage. I probably should have done a write up this year, too.

SillyGoose · 10-19-2011, 09:06 PM

The video was awesome. I'm sure the riding was even better.

MaverickH1 · 10-20-2011, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SillyGoose

The video was awesome. I'm sure the riding was even better.

Thank you, m'lady.

Skippii · 10-19-2011, 09:23 PM

SplitLanesLikeMOSES · 10-20-2011, 04:16 AM

That was GREAT!!!!

badguy · 10-20-2011, 04:39 AM

Around 3:50, did you stop to look over the side, or did you stop to pull the seat out of your butt after almost taking the quick way down?

lakota · 10-20-2011, 04:14 AM

nice job - thanks for sharing

gdelasheras · 10-20-2011, 05:31 AM

Great video edit and fantastic scenery!

Michhub · 10-20-2011, 06:32 AM

Hell Ya! Well done.

[TASF]Overkill · 10-20-2011, 06:38 AM

Badguy, I'm hoping he'll post some of the unedited clips of interesting bits at some point. That was definitely one of them. Since I had a blown out shock, that first bump sucked away my momentum... Then the second one stopped me dead. I'd been bottoming out the suspension linkage on things the whole way up, so was trying to be careful. When bike started tipping, I did the usual kick-the-foot-out move, my foot slid an inch or two on the loose stuff... When everything settled and I looked over, I was seeing the rocks I had displaced skipping down the mountain. I didn't say anything.... Then when I looked forward again (over the bike to bike communicator), "My recommendation is to stay on the left."

Mav was right behind me... we went maybe another 20 feet and he said "Tyler, I think we should turn around." "Me too, now." Turning the bikes around was a little stressful for me, but I've got long legs. Mav was skeeeeeeered. He contends I would have just gone straight over the edge, I'd like to think the instinct would have been to scramble over the bike... to hell with where the bike lands. Either way, eesh. It's hard to watch the original video in HD... Quality on that one sucks because I screwed up saving it when I edited my weiner out... took a leak further down the trail and forgot I had helmet cam on. :-)

The great part is that it was snowed in at the top anyway, and we knew it. :-) We just didn't want to go back the long way to Ouray, agh. We ended up having to do that anyway.

badguy · 10-20-2011, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [TASF]Overkill

Badguy, I'm hoping he'll post some of the unedited clips of interesting bits at some point. That was definitely one of them. Since I had a blown out shock, that first bump sucked away my momentum... Then the second one stopped me dead. I'd been bottoming out the suspension linkage on things the whole way up, so was trying to be careful. When bike started tipping, I did the usual kick-the-foot-out move, my foot slid an inch or two on the loose stuff... When everything settled and I looked over, I was seeing the rocks I had displaced skipping down the mountain. I didn't say anything.... Then when I looked forward again (over the bike to bike communicator), "My recommendation is to stay on the left."

Mav was right behind me... we went maybe another 20 feet and he said "Tyler, I think we should turn around." "Me too, now." Turning the bikes around was a little stressful for me, but I've got long legs. Mav was skeeeeeeered. He contends I would have just gone straight over the edge, I'd like to think the instinct would have been to scramble over the bike... to hell with where the bike lands. Either way, eesh. It's hard to watch the original video in HD... Quality on that one sucks because I screwed up saving it when I edited my weiner out... took a leak further down the trail and forgot I had helmet cam on. :-)

The great part is that it was snowed in at the top anyway, and we knew it. :-) We just didn't want to go back the long way to Ouray, agh. We ended up having to do that anyway.

Yikes

I'd love to see the full quality video of that climb. Seems like it would be sort of like that video of the guys on the goat trail in the Alps...

I bet the dong footage was a hell of a surprise later on

Gunner45 · 10-20-2011, 09:38 AM

Great video!

Thanks for sharing. You got a love pre 08 KLRs in thier natural enviroment.

Gunner45

HBN · 10-20-2011, 01:32 PM

Love the video RR. Great filming!!!

10-18-2011, 04:44 AM	#1
MaverickH1 ^OP Hummer H7 Rider Joined: May 2010 Location: Roanoke, VA Oddometer: 385	Video - Summer 2011 - [TASF]Overkill and I spend 7 days in Colorado Video tribute to the beauty of Colorado, and the awesomeness of seeing it on 2 wheels on a 7 day trip with your brother. Best watched with audio turned up on a good sound system, in my opinion. Engineer Pass, Imogene Pass, Cinnamon Pass, California Pass, Corkscrew Gulch, Hurricane Pass, Owl Creek Pass, the Black Canyons, the road to Silverjack Reservoir, Montrose's 4th of July Parade , and more. Untitled from MaverickH1 on Vimeo. This is really my first try at a real video. Windows Movie Maker absolutely killed the quality. I will never use that program again. It took me a month to stitch the pieces of the video together, 2 months to get Movie Maker to actually save the thing. Cameras were a GoPro Hero HD, and a Samsung TL320 point and shoot still camera that also takes bad movies. MaverickH1 screwed with this post 10-18-2011 at 06:49 AM

10-18-2011, 05:59 AM	#2
GSteve Beastly Adventurer Joined: Feb 2003 Location: Little Rock, AR Oddometer: 1,133	Excellent! __________________ Steve Little Rock, AR

10-18-2011, 06:49 AM	#3
[TASF]Overkill VRSATL Joined: Aug 2009 Location: Lynchburg, VA Oddometer: 164	Thanks Mav. :-) Good times. Good. Times. We try to take a one week trip every year on the bikes. I've been doing it for 3 years, we've been doing it as a brother team for 2. Not sure where next year will land us, but I know there's still a lot of Colorado to see! Oh, oh, also... I took a KLR with a blown out shock to Colorado and then loaded it down with all of our luggage. I probably should have done a write up this year, too. [TASF]Overkill screwed with this post 10-18-2011 at 06:58 AM

10-19-2011, 09:06 PM	#4
SillyGoose Wimp Joined: Jul 2010 Location: NoVA Oddometer: 153	Amazing The video was awesome. I'm sure the riding was even better. __________________ NOVA TOR Map

10-19-2011, 09:23 PM	#6
Skippii Hookers, my lad. Joined: May 2008 Location: Richmond, Va Oddometer: 6,218	__________________ "I'm half afraid Skippii's bike might actually be a giant hamster ball that he somehow powers around. With ape hangers." -GailCallsMeKarl

10-20-2011, 04:16 AM	#7
SplitLanesLikeMOSES I have OCD bad Joined: Aug 2007 Location: Lanexa,VA Oddometer: 535	That was GREAT!!!! __________________ PERU TO VIRGINIA 08' http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358151 Ryan

10-20-2011, 04:39 AM	#8
badguy Susan Joined: Nov 2009 Location: Fart Washington, MD Oddometer: 1,573	Around 3:50, did you stop to look over the side, or did you stop to pull the seat out of your butt after almost taking the quick way down? __________________ bad·guy [bad'-gi] vb (tr) bad·guyed bad·guy·ing bad·guys 1. To refuse to commit to an event, but most likely attend at the last minute. 2. To ignore an event until the last minute so as to avoid any expectations of attendance, but then show up anyway.

10-20-2011, 04:14 AM	#9
lakota Geeser Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Annapolis MD Oddometer: 2,167	nice job - thanks for sharing __________________ IBA #42016 CDR 2012 Nova Scotia 2011 Taking Molly to Atlantis Labador Newfoundland Nova Scotia 2010 Trail of an Assassin Alaska 2009 follow the ride on spot

10-20-2011, 05:31 AM	#10
gdelasheras Adventurer Joined: Feb 2011 Location: Northern Spain Oddometer: 26	Great video edit and fantastic scenery!

10-20-2011, 06:32 AM	#11
Michhub Major Medical Joined: Aug 2006 Location: Maricrapa AZ Oddometer: 3,189	Hell Ya! Well done. __________________ Mike Reinheitsgebot '07 990ADV '08 530EXCR '04 XR650L Bonsai Elephant - "Life without a 990 is no life at all!"

10-20-2011, 06:38 AM	#12
[TASF]Overkill VRSATL Joined: Aug 2009 Location: Lynchburg, VA Oddometer: 164	Badguy, I'm hoping he'll post some of the unedited clips of interesting bits at some point. That was definitely one of them. Since I had a blown out shock, that first bump sucked away my momentum... Then the second one stopped me dead. I'd been bottoming out the suspension linkage on things the whole way up, so was trying to be careful. When bike started tipping, I did the usual kick-the-foot-out move, my foot slid an inch or two on the loose stuff... When everything settled and I looked over, I was seeing the rocks I had displaced skipping down the mountain. I didn't say anything.... Then when I looked forward again (over the bike to bike communicator), "My recommendation is to stay on the left." Mav was right behind me... we went maybe another 20 feet and he said "Tyler, I think we should turn around." "Me too, now." Turning the bikes around was a little stressful for me, but I've got long legs. Mav was skeeeeeeered. He contends I would have just gone straight over the edge, I'd like to think the instinct would have been to scramble over the bike... to hell with where the bike lands. Either way, eesh. It's hard to watch the original video in HD... Quality on that one sucks because I screwed up saving it when I edited my weiner out... took a leak further down the trail and forgot I had helmet cam on. :-) The great part is that it was snowed in at the top anyway, and we knew it. :-) We just didn't want to go back the long way to Ouray, agh. We ended up having to do that anyway.

10-20-2011, 09:38 AM	#14
Gunner45 Out on the trail Joined: Jun 2007 Location: Utah, USA Oddometer: 137	Great video! Thanks for sharing. You got a love pre 08 KLRs in thier natural enviroment. Gunner45 __________________ "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast"

10-20-2011, 01:32 PM	#15
HBN plays in traffic Joined: Jun 2008 Location: Arlington, VA Oddometer: 10,959	Love the video RR. Great filming!!! __________________ Only those that go would know. - WayneJ 2001 R1150GS - 1976 R75/6 - 1975 XL250 HBurgNinja - The Thread \| HBN Boondocking the Nation \| Beards to Canada

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