JonKerr's GoPro Videos

[JonKerr]

I love living in San Diego. 80ºF in January. Clean roads, (For the most part) good friends, and barely a cloud in the sky. Sorry if I'm rubbing it in a bit. But hopefully those of you who are snowed in can live vicariously through this.

Lyons Valley on Vimeo

And yes, at 2:00 that's an RC51 going by me. You don't need to know the exact speed I was going at the time, but 4th gear pinned at about 11000 RPM. Do the math and guess how fast he was going. (Too fast is the answer. )

 

[Rookasaki]

All your video's rock! Keep them comming I enjoy watching them...

 

[JonKerr]

Thanks. I'm having fun with this thing. Obviously the riding is fun like always, but editing and trying to get creative with iMovie is a lot of fun. That last one I took some inspiration from Rat's thread about his "Winter Ride" and thought I'd post up what a fun winter ride looks like. And figured "Paradise City" would be fitting. :thumbup:

I was out this morning but the batteries died shortly after I started the camera so I couldn't rub it in more. But I do have more footage from yesterday that I'm going to put together. I had two cams running at one point yesterday. One on the fairing and one tail cam pointing backwards. I'm going to try and figure out if there's a way to do a split screen in iMovie.

 

[Rookasaki]

Split screen would be sweet! You definitly have the best FZ6R video's to date. Can't wait to see more... Love hearing the exhaust scream!

 

[JonKerr]

Here's a cool little clip that Stretch from 1904 Photography just post up on Facebook.

Videos Posted by 1904Photography.com: Jan 17, 2011 9:43pm | Facebook

 

[JonKerr]

Not my favorite video so far. Just some fairing and tail cam stuff spliced together. Couldn't figure out a way to do split screen. Plus all the really fun corners had cars or slow bikes in the way. But still some decent footage.

Dehesa on Vimeo

 

[b_who]

nice vid :thumbup:
enjoyed watching it, yea have to agree with you that it wasn't the best video of the bunch but was still fun to watch

keep'em coming opcorn:

 

[JonKerr]

Here's a quick clip from yesterday. I took a friends step son out for his first real ride in the twisties so we took it really slow. He's been commuting for 4 months but he really hasn't ridden the twisties at all.

Sunrise Highway w/ Derek on Vimeo

He's actually pretty good for 4 months but he is athletic and has good physical coordination and body control. He's a sponsored skateboarder trying to go pro. Here's one of his YouTube videos. Search Derek Elmendorf on YouTube if you want to see more of his stuff.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMCY51YyTxs]YouTube - The Mag Minute° Derek Elmendorf[/ame]

I have another video in the works from yesterday with some better footage.

 

[Rookasaki]

Nice vid... I always hate that "oh shit" feeling when you suddenly see the 5.0 I'm a cop and I still get that feeling... Of course I never ever break the speed law...

 

[JonKerr]

Here's the longer video of Derek and I out on 94 yesterday. Like I said, he's a new rider so we were taking it easy. But he did really well. He has a lot to work on form wise, but I'm lending him my Keith Code and Lee Parks books.

Jon and Derek on 94 on Vimeo

 

[JonKerr]

Not my video obviously, but if you want to see some good braking and especially rev-matching technique, check this video out from this last weekend at Chuckwalla by one of the TrackDaz guys. Not really something you need to use on the street as you shouldn't be pushing hard like that, but still very useful knowledge.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJAItrlTmog"]YouTube - Chuckwalla Race Way[/ame]

 

[Uno979]

Jon... I finally got on my Desktop to watch your Vids on Vimeo. I have to say I'm quite jealous.. :bow: you live in a playground for bike riders. Plus your vids are sweet and your well skilled. I applaud you. :steve: Can I be your best friend? :rockon:

Keep up the good work.:thumbup:

 

[Rookasaki]

Not my video obviously, but if you want to see some good braking and especially rev-matching technique, check this video out from this last weekend at Chuckwalla by one of the TrackDaz guys. Not really something you need to use on the street as you shouldn't be pushing hard like that, but still very useful knowledge.

YouTube - Chuckwalla Race Way

awesome vid... Amazing how much power and pull those bikes have. Thanks for sharing.... Looking forward to another video.

 

[JonKerr]

Jon... I finally got on my Desktop to watch your Vids on Vimeo. I have to say I'm quite jealous.. :bow: you live in a playground for bike riders. Plus your vids are sweet and your well skilled. I applaud you. :steve: Can I be your best friend? :rockon:

Keep up the good work.:thumbup:

Awe Shucks!

Really, Thanks. I really am lucky to live so close to some of the best twisties around. And I do enjoy sharing it with others. And I've been very lucky to meet some good riders and good friends who've helped teach me a lot in a short amount of time.

 

[JonKerr]

Here's a new video.

Palomar in January on Vimeo

Finally got some good footage of a run up the hill on Palomar. Only about half way up though. The top half was really dirty and didn't really make for exciting video. LOL. Here's a couple of pics from that morning as well.

 

[dart1963]

nice... looks like there's only a couple of blind turns, most give a pretty good view around... and very little traffic!

 

[Rookasaki]

Thanks for the new vid..

 

[JonKerr]

That's the wide angle lens doing it's magic. Most of those turns are actually pretty blind and VERY tight. That's why we usually will scout it slowly at least once to make sure there's nothing in the road that we're not ready for. After making that video, I realized that if I wanted to run that hill really fast I really should be in 2nd gear. I'm bogged down around 6000RPM in 3rd coming out of some of those corners and it really slowed my exits down a lot. But I'm lapping it plenty fast for street riding and 3rd is a lot more comfortable than 2nd. Plus I don't want to have to shift into 3rd on a few of the straights and have to down shift again to 2nd within half a second to slow down for the next turn. I'm thinking a -1/+2 gear would make 3rd gear perfect for the hill.

Here's a map of the road.

 

[JonKerr]

Here's another quick one I put together. Coming down Palomar is much less comfortable for me for some reason. Probably because my two closest calls were coming down that hill and it is so steep, it's easy to enter too fast. So I tend to over compensate and enter too slow. So the footage coming down is just a chill cruise until the last few turns. The music kind of matches that too. Enjoy.

Palomar Downhill on Vimeo

(It's still converting as of the posting.)

 

[JonKerr]

Sunrise Highway on Vimeo

One more I just put together tonight. This is the bottom five or so miles of Sunrise Highway coming down from Mt. Laguna. This is the kind of road our bike is made for. Fast sweeping twisties. The turns are tighter than the video makes it look, but nothing like Palomar. You can run this road in 3rd gear wound up in the powerband and 70mph+ through these turns easily. Our stock gearing is just off for this road. 3rd gear you're pretty much wound out a bit beyond the peak powerband at the end of the straights but good for coming out of the turn at around 8500-9000. But 4th gear is a little too high and going down hill you tend to cary a bit too much speed into the turns and then get bogged down a bit. Running in 3rd is good for me because I'm not one to run 100mph in the straight even if I could and I like being right in the powerband coming out of the turns. Not a knee dragging road really (you'd have to be running WAY TOO FAST to need that kind of lean angle) but probably my favorite road in the county.