how are you going today ? i've just received my second little telesin chin mount in the mail so
i thought I would do a quick video on it, and for those of you that are interested in perhaps buying
one of these, i'll give you a quick look at it and see what i make of it so this is the new
upgraded one they're calling it so i'm not exactly sure how long this one's been out
but that is the older one, both of these are purchased off amazon and they're quite cheap
they're only plastic, both of them are only plastic
so this the old one was quite good um you can see here i have an adventure helmet with quite a
pointy chin on it this is just a cheaper fly racing 2015 treker helmet
and getting a chin mount on some of these more off-road orientated helmets can be a
bit of an issue with the pointier chins on them uh no real flat surface there to attach
or to stick a mount onto so the other choices you have are the ones that stick on the side here and
sort of bend around and i wasn't too keen on one of those so i thought i'd have a look at these
cheap little strap-on ones, now this one came last week and i've given that a go
and it's not not too bad actually it does sort of
strap on there putting it on that way these two parts up here can be tensioned up
and held in place pretty well and this one here has the little clips on it as you can see it just
clips into the back there like that so it's got two of those on it
and use this one a little bit with the gopro 9 i've got the media mod on the gopro9 which makes
it a bit bulkier i haven't had any issues um the other thing this one's quite good with
is if i undo that the bottom strap on this one is elastic so it gives a fair bit of stretch
makes it a bit more versatile to get around some of the different helmets
now the new one, the differences with this one is the sides here are quite foldable so you can
sort of see that it's got little joints running down the side of it here just down through here
so there's quite a lot of movement in those that you can bend them around
now unlike the old one with the clips this one only has velcro straps
underneath here so they'll strap around
and go through these little eyelets and fold back on themselves
so this one here in terms of a fit it does actually fit quite a bit better as it
wraps around quite nicely
um fits over that little mouth vent pretty well as you can see underneath it there a little bit
there's a little bit of space under here but it does sit much flatter than the old one
so i'll strap him on and i'll give you a look at it with the camera on
so here's our first issue with this new one if i take the camera back off you can see
unscrew that so the fastener for this little bracket here is to go in this way
there's no hole in this side of the little silver metal bit so screw must go in that way now i'm
running the media mode on the gopro which makes it a little bit bulkier but on the gopro the
little groove on the bottom of the media mod here for the screw is on the other side
um so to get that in really the screw i should be putting it in from this way but
i'm having to put it in from this way now it does still sort of fit but it's
it does sort of flex the camera up this way a little bit which you might be able
to compensate for with the straps and just twist the mount a little bit on the helmet
the other way of getting around that would be to mount the chin mount upside down
um so if the whole thing was to flip around upside down
that would alleviate that problem or even flipping the gopro upside down but when i do that
there's not a lot of room to be moving the gopro and tilting the gopro itself
for the correct angle you want when on the bike so to use that one i'd suggest it's probably going to
need a couple of additional little bits stuck on so then you can get your angle and your adjustment
and get it firmly attached without any dramas
uh i did notice the little gopro feet do slip into this one nicer than the other one
they fit in there quite nicely
i'll show you on the other one here
so this one here you can see straight away well it depends which way you look at it but the little j
hook is going up that way so the screw parts on the other side so that goes in well with the
media mod and works with that nicely but these here are quite a bit
trickier to get into these grooves and you need to be quite careful it's only plastic you don't
want to snap them but they do go in with a bit of work so that's definitely a plus for the old one
but this new one definitely feels a lot snugger on this particular helmet
the other plus for the old one is this elastic strap i quite like this new one doesn't have
any of the elastic it's just a couple of velcro straps so which with whichever one i'd be using
i'd probably be putting on a couple of extra cable ties just wrapped around it as a bit
of an insurance measure uh expensive cameras you don't want them falling off as you're going along
so anyway there's a quick rundown on the differences between the old and the new
telesin helmet mounts uh quite a cheap alternative to
glueing and sticking parts on the helmet these can be taken off and stuck on multiple helmets
if you're not using your camera they can be taken off and you've got your helmet without any big
mounts stuck on it, so i hope you found this useful a bit of a quick look at the new and the old one
cheers