The other morning I woke up and thought to myself: "My cycling isn't nearly nerdy enough. Sure, I've got the spandex. But what I really need is an enormous rear-mounted selfie stick on the bike so I can capture footage of my rides and the city." So I searched around and found a seat mount rig from Insta360 that looks like this (please note that the stick extends to 1 meter):

Now, I don't have an Insta360. I've heard they're fantastic. I have an old GoPro Max that is, well, okay. I find it has terrible dynamic range. The sky is often blown out. It also shuts off constantly when I'm snowboarding due to the cold. It's suboptimal and at some point I'll likely invest in an Insta360. But for now, I used an adapter to connect my GoPro to the mount.

Below is what the photos/videos end up looking like. As an aside, captured on the right is Good Gang Ice Cream on Annette, which my friend Chris Spoke (of Toronto Standard) tells me is top.

And here's a video from Instagram.

The way these 360 cameras work is that, as long as the camera is perfectly aligned with the selfie stick, then the entire apparatus disappears in the videos it captures. But if the camera gets misaligned because, for example, things start bouncing around, then it can show up. I'm not exactly sure what's happening in the above, but something is getting in the way of a clean 360-degree stitch.

I'll keep working on it.

The other morning I woke up and thought to myself: "My cycling isn't nearly nerdy enough. Sure, I've got the spandex. But what I really need is an enormous rear-mounted selfie stick on the bike so I can capture footage of my rides and the city." So I searched around and found a seat mount rig from Insta360 that looks like this (please note that the stick extends to 1 meter):

Now, I don't have an Insta360. I've heard they're fantastic. I have an old GoPro Max that is, well, okay. I find it has terrible dynamic range. The sky is often blown out. It also shuts off constantly when I'm snowboarding due to the cold. It's suboptimal and at some point I'll likely invest in an Insta360. But for now, I used an adapter to connect my GoPro to the mount.

Below is what the photos/videos end up looking like. As an aside, captured on the right is Good Gang Ice Cream on Annette, which my friend Chris Spoke (of Toronto Standard) tells me is top.

And here's a video from Instagram.

The way these 360 cameras work is that, as long as the camera is perfectly aligned with the selfie stick, then the entire apparatus disappears in the videos it captures. But if the camera gets misaligned because, for example, things start bouncing around, then it can show up. I'm not exactly sure what's happening in the above, but something is getting in the way of a clean 360-degree stitch.

I'll keep working on it.