Video of the Abandoned Texas Hwy 87

[LaOutbackTrail]

http://www.youtube.com/v/ynsig79fPes&hl=en&fs=1
YouTube - Hwy 87
This video was taken from the clips I took while riding Hwy 87 on my way back from Mexico in July. I'm still on Mexican time...


What yall think?

 

[Maximus Ram]

Its not coming through.....:Astrologist:

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

YouTube - Hwy 87

Its not coming through.....:Astrologist:

 

[atavuss]

looks like a good ride! do you have more info anywhere about how you have your thumper set up? I bought a three month old 07 XR650L with 850 miles a couple of weeks ago. am also interested in any info about your helmet cam.

 

[RedDog]

Fantastic!:clapsmile

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

looks like a good ride! do you have more info anywhere about how you have your thumper set up? I bought a three month old 07 XR650L with 850 miles a couple of weeks ago. am also interested in any info about your helmet cam.

My $500 XR650L Build Up - ADVrider

My Mexican non-adventure.... adventure.... or something like that - ADVrider

My "helmet camera" is a point and shoot digital camera that I have set up on a RAM mount on the handle bars. You can best tell the vantage point when its pointing up at my face in the video. The shots where its looking forward in the direction of travel is again, on the handlebars. The only problem with the video is that I didnt clean the windshield that the camera was shooting through.

On a side note: its not the best idea to mount just any camera on a RAM mount. There is a lot of vibration that reaches the camera and it will eventually fail. There needs to be some sort of isolation and not setup directly (hard) to the bike. A bullet camera like what is used in most helmet cam setups dont have sensitive components like other cameras, and the recording device is usually in a soft bag somewhere else anyways.

I'm hoping to get a cheaper internal hard drive video camera so that I can take better videos, mainly because IHD cams are less sensitive to vibration than say Mini-DV cams.

 

[Martinjmpr]

Can't watch the video here at work but I love abandoned highways! Actually, relics of all kinds (abandoned roads, old abandoned military bases, ghost towns, abandoned truck stops and gas stations, etc.)

Must be the history major in me!

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

Can't watch the video here at work but I love abandoned highways! Actually, relics of all kinds (abandoned roads, old abandoned military bases, ghost towns, abandoned truck stops and gas stations, etc.)

Must be the history major in me!

Can you see the pics? Go to the link (Mexican non-adventure) in the post where I explained the helmet cam. Thats my trip report. Its also on here too.

 

[Martinjmpr]

Can you see the pics? Go to the link (Mexican non-adventure) in the post where I explained the helmet cam. Thats my trip report. Its also on here too.

AHA! I just realized where you were! I was there in May. GF had some free airline tickets and had a friend in Houston, so we flew down to visit. She's an avid fisherman so we went down to Galveston for some fishing. I caught a 45 lb Stingray! :wings:

We stayed in a Motel 6 in Galveston and the next day we took that same ferry across to the same highway. Of course, we were in a rental car so we had to turn off but I saw exactly where the road was closed that you drove down. Very cool!

 

[atavuss]

Can't watch the video here at work but I love abandoned highways! Actually, relics of all kinds (abandoned roads, old abandoned military bases, ghost towns, abandoned truck stops and gas stations, etc.)

Must be the history major in me!

you would LOVE the ghost town Bodie!

Laoutbacktrail, I just read your trip report on the ADVrider site, very interesting!