Jul

California Chopper Motorcycles Ride

California Chopper Motorcycles Ride 360° Video

This video was filmed with an Insta360 One X camera. Custom choppers ride to downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter for the last day of the huge Comic-Con convention.

Eight custom chopper riders leave from the North Park area of San Diego for the short ride to Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter. Read more

Jan

Chopper Motorcycles

chopper motorcycles

This is a little video retrospective of some of the chopper motorcycles that I’ve owned over the years.

I grew up on the East Coast and that’s where my passion for high-powered chopper motorcycles began. Actually my first motorcycle was an old 1950 something Harley-Davison with a suicide shift.

Sep

Motorcycle Accident Close Call

Motorcycle Accident Close Call This video shows a couple clips of a motorcycle accident close call. For best possible viewing results, change the resolution of this video up to 4K and full-screen, if your device can handle it without buffering. If you have a problem, just lower the resolution until it plays back without buffering.

Riding my 2006 American Ironhorse Texas Chopper in San Diego California on Highway Eight, heading west around sunset. Read more

Aug

California Chopper Motorcycle Ride Insta360 One

California Chopper Motorcycle Ride

This is part two of our ride from San Diego up to Mount Laguna and then over to Julian California. From Julian rewrite over to the famous Dudley’s bakery in Santa Ysabel, CA 92070 for lunch. if you missed the first part of this ride, here’s a direct link:

https://www.sandiegocustommotorcycles.info/chopper-motorcycle-ride/

This is the first use of my new 360° VR camera to video a motorcycle ride. the camera is a Insta360 One, that records in 4K resolution. For best possible viewing results, change the resolution of this video up to 4K and full-screen, if your device can handle it without buffering. If you have a problem, just lower the resolution until it plays back correctly.

Riding up to Mount Laguna and Julian California is the most popular San Diego motorcycle ride. If you look closely at the video when we’re riding into Julian you’ll see a large amount of motorcycles parked on both sides of the main street. Read more

Aug

Chopper Motorcycle Ride

This chopper motorcycle ride departed early from College Avenue and Highway eight in San Diego with three chopper motorcycle riders. One of the riders, Jose, came down from Oceanside California. We left early in the morning to avoid the August hot weather. Because of the hot weather, we chose to write up the Mount Laguna and the old gold mining town of Julian California.

So, starting at a couple hundred feet elevation, we ended up going up in elevation to 4,226 feet! once we got up to Mount Laguna it was just perfect blue skies with a couple of clouds and great motorcycle riding weather! Read more

Apr

Motorcycle video tip

Make your next motorcycle video much more entertaining! I’m sure you know about VR 360 videos, this motorcycle video tip is how to use a 360° video to provide your audience scenes that you preselected from the raw 360° footage and then converted it into a regular ‘flat’ video. Motorcycle video tip:

Using this technique, is almost like having a passenger behind you filming your motorcycle ride at various angles, all from one small stationary 360° camera that is attached to your motorcycle helmet. Read more

May

American Ironhorse Tejas Model

When new, this moidel sold for approximately $28,995. Don’t get too excited, American Ironhorse went out of business in 2008. Because most of their bikes look like one off custom machines, they still remain in high demand in the resale market. I believe a huge factor in their continued high demand, besides their ultra-cool look, was the fact that they chose the American-made S&S engine to power all their motorcycles. Many other motorcycle manufacturers and custom builders went with imported V-twin engines, that most bikers consider way inferior when compared to the S&S engine.

This bike like most of the American Ironhorse line, came standard with the 111-inch S&S engine. AIH offered two other options: a 117-inch ($1,000) or a 124-inch ($2,000) motor. American Ironhorse opened for business in 1995. American Ironhorse was the largest factory producer of custom motorcycles in the United States until production ended in 2008. Read more

Sep

San Diego Chopper Motorcycle GoPro Ride

Riding my 2006 American Ironhorse Texas Chopper on a really hot day in San Diego California.

The camera I am using to film this video is a GoPro Hero 4 Black and I’m shooting at 1080, 60 frames per second super wide angle mode. The camera, is mounted on the right side of my helmet.

If you’re using your GoPro camera to film your motorcycle rides, as long as it’s mounted on your body or your helmet you really don’t need a stabilizer to get good footage. But if you decide to mount the camera directly on the bike, the handlebars or the frame, it really pays to use a three axis gimbal to get your best shots. Read more

Sep

California Texas Chopper Motorcycle

Eric’s 2004 American Ironhorse Texas Chopper motorcycle. when it comes to factory manufactured chopper motorcycles, it’s my humble opinion that the American Ironhorse Texas Chopper and the Big Dog K-9 are two of the classic and best built chopper’s!

We did this video in front of San Diego Harley Davison on Marina Boulevard here in San Diego. many other motorcycle riders and most of the general public when looking at the Texas Chopper believe that it is a rigid frame model because of the low seat position and no visible rear shock absorbers. Read more

Jun

San Diego Motorcycle Babe

This young lady is just starting her career as a photo model. This video was taken at the Cajon Classic Cruise Hot-Rod and motorcycle show that occurs every Wednesday through the end of October in downtown El Cajon California.

Not only is this show free to the public but it’s also free for those who want to enter their vehicles. Naturally, there are trophies for the best motorcycle and the best hot rods in the show. If that was not enough, there’s even entertainment at the award ceremony. Read more