San Luis Obispo, SLO, Downtown Criterium Part 1

This helmet camera video is of a cycling race in the middle of downtown San Luis Obispo, Ca on August 12th, 2007. You're riding with the Pro/1/2 field racing for 90 minutes with an overall average speed of 27+ mph. There was a slight breeze with the tailwind on the finishing stretch.

The road was bumpy which directly affected the ATC2k helmet camera video so just try to look through the bumpiness.

Info about myself:
I'm a recent Cat 2 upgrade on Cycling Science. It's my second attempt using the Oregon Scientific ATC2k helmet camera in a race. It's positioned on top of my helmet, but my helmet slid down near the end of the race. Also, at some points the camera is a little off since I can't focus on my head position during the entire race. However, I did edit out a few parts that didn't show well.

Hope you enjoy, thanks for watching and please let me know what you think!

- Colter Cederlof

P.S. Special thanks to everyone out there who cheered for the "Helmet Cam Guy!" in some form or another. It truely was motivating!

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• San
• Luis
• Obispo
• SLO
• race
• bike
• bicycle
• cycling
• science
• ATC2k
• helmet
• camera
• criterium
• crit
• pro/1/2
• crash

[ccederlo]

Glad you liked it. Hope you enjoy SLO as much as I enjoyed racing there!

[lenderboy]

"ONE HOUR TO GO"? Good god, what was the length of the crit? These riders look much smoother than your other vid.

[ccederlo]

Wow, I've neglected my videos for a while. The race was 90 minutes long... it can almost get boring during some of the races because it's too smooth (but this one never got old)

[calcutta1981]

what song is this

[ccederlo]

There are 3 songs. The first one is the theme song from the video game Kingdom Hearts. 2nd and 3rd are from the video game Halo 2. (Or maybe just Halo... I can't remember)

[dtwebster1976]

Its good too see you stayed on the inside of the corners. How did you have the cam pointed on top....flush?..or pointed down a bit?

[ccederlo]

I actually have the camera tilted slightly upwards. I found during hard efforts I tend to tip my head down slightly so I tried to accommodate. I suggest just doing a bunch of trial rides to get a feel for where the camera needs to be placed. And make sure the helmet strap is tight so it doesn't wobble.

[dougeroonie]

Great video man, I was chking SLO vids to see the area better and caught yours. I haven't raced that much really. A few centuries here and there, but love riding. Looking forward to living in SLO soon, from... Tenn. My bro lives there now.

Thanks

[calcutta1981]

what song is this

[maxhs21]

Fred wasn't in the race, but I agree!

Nice job, Colter! Hope you wear the helmet cam at some collegiate races as well.

[ccederlo]

Overall, I think I did okay given my peak was about 3 weeks earlier and my performance was going down hill. Getting in that break at the end was a good result even though I couldn't hold the pace till the end. I just need more power! I ended up something like top 25 or so.