I gotta get an external mike…

It takes a long time to make a good video.   I can tell you it also takes a long time to make a bad video.  One thing about our CSC videos…folks either love them or they don’t.   Every time I post a video, somebody will comment that I need to do this or I need to that.   The last one I posted made a guy tell me I needed to get an external microphone.   He went on to say a bunch of other less-than-flattering things (it’s that online disinhibition thing again, I suppose), but he might have been right on the external microphone.

Anyway, take a look at this…

On the other hand, we also get a lot of comments from folks who love the unpolished nature of our videos, and the fact that we don’t hire models or professional speakers. All you get is me.  Eh, please some folks, annoy others, who knows?

I shot a ton of video yesterday on a long City Slicker ride.  I was battery-powered to the max (an electric motorcycle, a battery-powered Go Pro camera, and a battery-powered cell phone to control my Go Pro).   Guess what happened?  The Go Pro ran out of juice before the motorcycle did.  That’s kind of funny.

The City Slicker video challenge is going to be sound.  Comments I received on my other videos (the TT250, the RX3, and my CSC 150 Mustang) sometimes centered on folks telling me to shut up and to kill the background music.   They wanted to hear the motor.

You can guess where this is going.

When you ride the City Slicker, one of the very coolest parts of the experience is that the motorcycle is absolutely silent.  There’s no engine sound.  Zip.  Nada.  It is an exhilarating and liberating ride.  Read the blog below and you’ll see what I mean.

But when you do a video on an electric motorcycle…that’s another thing altogether.  I watched all of the video I recorded on the road yesterday.   All it had for sound was my narration and my heavy breathing (I wore a mike inside my helmet).  Hmmm, I thought.  Boring.

Experiencing an e-bike ride first-hand is ultra-cool.   Experiencing an e-bike ride through a video is ultra-boring.  That’s going to be the next challenge:  How to make a motorcycle video interesting when there’s no motorcycle sound.  Steve and I joked about it yesterday. He said maybe our first accessory should be a baseball card and a clothespin…