this is how to build out your helmet for camera and microphone mounting for vlogging
now before actually mounting everything to the helmet the first thing i had to do is figure out
which components i wanted to mount i use a gopro helmet so for a long time i've had one of these
helmet side mounts where i use my gopro it keeps you at the proper height for your eye height but
obviously it's very off-centered from your center i picked up one of these moto mounts chin mount
that would go right on here be down a little bit further than my eyes but it'll be a lot closer to
center as far as the center line of the helmet as far as getting sound of the gopro there's multiple
things that are required before you can do that you can't just plug a three and a half millimeter
jack into the gopro cameras so the first thing i had to get from gopro of course which means you're
paying for the name was this converter which takes a 3.5 millimeter jack and converts it to the usbc
to go into the camera before you can do that you have to get the pass-through door for the gopro
which has the little window down here and that's where your connector goes in and connects to the
camera while keeping your door in place we'll go ahead and install the moto mounts for the
front of the helmet the first thing you want to do is degrease the area which means you can use
anything from acetone to an alcohol wipe like this or even just good old dish soap and water
and you just want to clean that area real good all around there to make sure there's no grease
or oils that's going to jack with the adhesion give that a couple seconds to dry while that's
drying we'll go ahead and pull the release liner off of the mount and you can see it's on there at
kind of some goofy angles that's just the geometry they had to create to be able to match the helmet
notice i did not touch the surface of the helmet because i don't want to get oils from my skin back
on it now before we actually attach this we want to heat up both the gummy surface and the helmet
surface with the heat gun just a little bit to soften all the adhesive so it sticks really well
now while both surfaces are warm we want to apply this super carefully because you get like one shot
i want to be perfectly centered and level so i'm basically going to make the bottom edge even with
that trim piece on the bottom ideally i should probably find some kind of a clamp to use on this
i'm going to put as much force as i can with my hands first to get it to bite every direction
it's not pretty but i found an old welding clamp that'll probably work for this
let's make sure i don't damage the helmet somehow so you can see there it's centered as far as the
mount is centered on the helmet and then if you look at the bottom the edge of the mount
rides right above the lip of that and this is on a showy 14 and then you can also see that the
camera mount is a little bit offset to the right which when i get the camera on there it should
make it so that the eye of the camera is closer to center line of the rider and you can still kind
of see that the eye of the camera is i don't know half inch or so off from the center of the helmet
but it's fairly close so they've done what they can by offsetting these mounts to get it closer
to that yes you can do one of those big wrap around brackets that's a little bit bulkier
but this is a way to get it in the front a smooth slick design for mounting that does get you
pretty close to being at the center now you have a little bit of flexibility obviously in that mount
so i'm gonna have to play with that to see what works for me because remember your helmet isn't
always going to be straight up and down while you're riding it's going to be angled like this
so i want to take it out and do a little bit of test rides to find the proper angle
for my style of riding you basically pop this down and you simply pop off the door
and you will pop the new door on that has the pass-through window down here for the adapter
and once that's down plug it in and there you go i've got it tilted in the most
leaned back position so that when you're riding down like this it's still fairly straight as
you can see from the video it actually got pretty good balance between the ground and
the sky above it wasn't like staring into the clouds and it wasn't looking way down either
so i'm pretty happy with that arrangement and again it's not perfectly centered but it gave
a pretty good perspective i think on viewing i liked it better than the side mount over here like
it was plus it's not something hanging out real bulky here that i'm going to catch on stuff or
hit with my coat or something since the scent is already mounted to the left side of the helmet
and i'm used to having the gopro over on the right side i'm going to mount all this stuff
for the vlogging on the right side it makes more sense too because i'm coming out of the gopro
with this adapter and the first thing i need to do is mount that to the helmet that can be super
easily fixed with a little bit of dual lock just going to cut a little bit of chunk it doesn't take
much of this dual lock again i've got an alcohol wipe i'm going to wipe that area down there
after trying it on a ride yesterday this gopro adapter didn't last long at all stuck
to the dual lock the dual lock on the side of the adapter came right off it was already
starting to come off yesterday despite wiping it down with alcohol and when you feel it
it's got kind of a greasy feel to it so i don't know if that's mold release or what exactly it is
regardless it needs to be attached again so this piece of dual lock is trashed because it's got
fuzz and dirt and stuff on the side so i need to cut a new piece of dual lock to match that
one so there's the new piece of dual lock for it now what i have to do is properly prep this piece
so what i'm going to do is take some scotch brite and some actual acetone to try to scuff this up
and clean it as much as i can and just to be real sure it sticks i'm going to put super glue between
the adapter and the dual lock as well i don't want this thing falling off all the time during riding
while that's drying i'll start taking this backing off the dual lock with a razor
there's a bunch of super glue on it and there is the dual lock right in the middle and i really
don't want to fasten the adapter right to the helmet because if i do a track event of some kind
a lot of times you're not allowed to put a helmet cam on and it has to be on the bike and secured
so this way i could put an extender cable out here and still use this vlog capability
just have it wired to a camera mounted elsewhere all right i'm going to let that sit for a minute
i'm just going to get it about even right there i'm going to put pressure on it and hold it that
way for a while and kind of rock it around okay so that's in place all right so we've got the cameras
already mounted we've got our adapter goes to that little block now we got to do is put the
microphone from inside to out there so i'm going to take the cheek pad loose and it just unsnaps
get the strap out i don't know if you can see it or not but i've already got some cords in here
that snake their way around for the speaker that goes from the cena so that's already in there we'd
like to do somehow get this to come out the side so first what i'll do is i'll mount this up front
i'm gonna put the microphone
right up in the front kinda right next to where the current center microphone is
right there i'm gonna put it right off to that side so i wiped it with the alcohol pad
and what i'm gonna use for that is a little bit of this body tape double sided tape i'm going to
stick this side to the actual microphone and then i'm going to carve away the edges with the razor
and now that i have the double-sided tape on it i'm going to peel away the liner it's easier said
than done sometimes sometimes a razor blade helps separate the two this might be a little bit hard
to see but i'm basically putting it right there right next to the microphone from the center
and now we have our cord that we can tuck behind the cheek pad and if you notice if you pick up
the cheek pad it actually comes out of there and so you can actually go through one of these
so you got to kind of look at your length and say all right it's going to go through this far
and then come around go back into here
coil up a little bit so it's coming from far back so what i want to do is go through one of these
last ones i'm going to kind of force the cable through it and i'm going to
connect these again through the back side of here and i'm going to plug
this into here and then i'm going to shove that cheek pad
back into the helmet and it might be a little bit unhappy about going in where that cord is
all right now that i've pushed the cheek pad in and remember like this particular for a shoei
it's got that split you have to put on that knob so make sure to get that right and then this all
plugs in so that's happy and you can tie this down if you want we may do that later
and then as far as the cord in here goes all you have to do is kind of lay it off to the side
bring your strap back through
snap the cheek pad back in place
okay so once your cheek pads snap back in the cords contain you've got a pretty clean
outside surface here a lot better than if you had 10 feet of cable hanging out there
and this is back in business and you get your microphone right up front side note the gopro
11 just released so i've got a couple of those on the way but for right now this is how you build
out a vlog motorcycle helmet with a gopro the adapter and this is using the cina microphone
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