One of the main reasons I came to YouTube in the first place ways to open up people's
minds on how things work by pushing all sorts of stuff to its limit and filming it in a
way that allows us to see things we normally cannot see.
so when I got the viewer request to mount a GoPro inside of a tire and drive the car
around I was all in and it was absolutely perfect timing because I was just about to
change the tires on my car I'm not going to waste any time I'm just going to jump right
into it and get it done.
for this I'm going to be using a GoPro hero 7 a USB cable an external battery pack and
a light these are all things that are going to be essential 12 hours to see what's going
on inside the tire as I drive around Chicago.
the only issue I'm running into after I gathered all this stuff together is that this is all
the stuff so I'm not really sure how I'm going to mow and all of this inside of the tire
yeah
Let's go get the car
I have the car up in the air now I just have to figure out how I'm going to get this camera
inside of this tire because I don't know if these are considered low profiles or not but
the tire is only about two and a 2-1/2" tall the GoPro with the case is about 3-3/4" Tall
What's all that water in there
I think this is going to work because of this reinforcing rib I'm going to try to mount
the camera right about here in this direction because this is the right front wheel and
this is going to be moving forward which means whatever is happening is going to be coming
towards the camera
This actually came out really good the GoPro mounted really nicely
And I have the battery right back here for the light
I'm going to see if I can get the tire on this rim with the camera somehow
I have the GoPro all mountain inside of the tire I'm going to be mounting the tire on
the rim and since this is the first time I've ever had a GoPro inside of a tire I figured
I might as well record mounting a tire from the inside because that's something I've never
seen before either here it goes let's see what this looks like
The next thing I'm going to do is fill up the tire to 35 PSI I'm going to fill it up
with air and I'm going to roll the GoPro
And that's it let's put it on the car and get on the road
It's really cool as I roll out watch the screen
you can see the tire dent in and you can see
stuff flying around
First thing I notice is like those little glitches
It's like a connection issue and I'm pretty sure it's because it's mounted inside of the
tire
And if you watch it it's really cool
All right well let me get on the road with this thing and see what it does this is the
front tire maybe I'll do it again in the back tire.
and one thing to remember is the perspective
is just a locked perspective because the GoPro
is not moving in relation to the rim
I'm going to drive through the alley now and see how this looks
all right so that look pretty cool just driving
through the alley fairly slow I mean you can
see the tire kind of conforming to
all of the imperfections in the road and there's
a lot of cracks in this alley
Now I'm on a nice smooth Street
I'm just going to drive up the smooth Street and just see
what it looks like inside the tire on a smooth street with almost no bumps
One thing I want to do before hitting the turns
is I want to back-up because I saw the tire
do something really cool when I backed up earlier
That was actually really cool the tire was
kind of like dancing I don't know if it has
maybe some toe-in or toe out
as the car is backing up but something's going on where
the tires are kind of sliding on the pavement
and these tires are shot anyway so
That's it for that one let's go hit some turns
and see how they look and this is probably
going to be the last take because once I hit some turns really hard
it might deform the tire
enough that it hits the GoPro
Let's see what happens
well that went really well a lot better than I expected
and although that seemed kind of anti-climatic in my book
I think that was a really cool
look inside of the tire that was definitely a
different perspective so thanks for that
viewer request and I was going to do some crazy stuff
but I figured what's the point I mean
it's just a GoPro it's not like a high speed camera or anything
and even when I was driving
on that smooth road doing like 10 or 15 miles per hour
that was getting a little bit too
fast for the camera because it was just passing the camera too fast
and it didn't catch any
action I didn't see too much value there
Some moving on I got some ideas from this episode
and the nice thing is the battery
didn't explode the GoPro handle the pressure
I put about 40 PSI in that tire the second
time so that was pretty impressive
so thanks again for the viewer request I'm going to
end this video right here tell me what you think in the comments below and if you have
any other cool or crazy ideas even if they're off the wall like this thanks for watching
see you next time