202 Miles Of Scooter Therapy

[90GTVert]

I've been in a bad mood since my neighbor kicked my door in, and there's a trip I've always wanted to take on a scoot. Someone was around to watch my grandmother and with a truck just in case, so yesterday seemed like the perfect time to do it.

I went from my place in Preston, MD to Ocean City, MD and back. Also going through a few other beaches in that area. I wanted to try it once before Memorial Day, because these beaches and the roads to them get PACKED during the beach season from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Traffic wasn't bad at all yesterday.

I've never took the route I used yesterday, because I normally just follow the highway. I didn't wanna be on the shoulder of the big highways, so I found this route. The section I've never been on before was actually very cool. A bit of twisty roads through a woods.

On one section of windy road, I learned what all the fuss is about with "road snakes" (those black squiggly tar lines on the pavement). I've seen them plenty, but they never bothered me. Well, I've never seen them like this road. It was ridiculous. I could feel the scooter getting loose every time a tire touched one. It's a really unnerving feeling when you go into a corner you don't know faster than you should and then run over some snakes.



I think I was riding from about 3PM to 10PM. The only stops I made were fro gas (averaged about 50MPG) and the bathroom or a brief leg stretch or photo. I coulda rode more, but it was getting chilly to the point that I was shivering at times the last 50 miles. I took some extra gear for the temp drop at night, but not quite enough I guess.

I took the GoPro and filled it with 21GB of video. Went to load it to the computer last night and all the files are corrupt. I can't watch a single video. I tried repairing with some free programs online and nothing. If anyone knows of a good way to repair MP4 video, lemme know. Thought I'd be able to cut a vid together, but it looks like I wont. Sucks. It's a really cool area.

I did get a few pics, but not much. I never anticipated any issues with the video. Never had a problem with it. Figures it would happen on this trip.













With all the gadgets it's starting to look like a Harley dash. lol Oh well. It's really nice having a GPS for a speedometer and just in case I get lost. Gotta love the stereo on the long stretches of road, especially on the way home at night.

[90GTVert]

Almost forgot. I did see a few other scooters. Mostly in the opposite direction. Passed one on the way down like he was standing still. The other I caught in traffic and whizzed passed him revving it up at him. lol I beat every car at every red light without even gassing it hard. I don't usually get to line up with 2-3 cars side by side where I ride so I had to try. Granted, no one actually tried to race me... but I was having fun so whatever. ;D

[stepthrutuner]

So glad you got out of the house and away from your troubles for a very nice ride. I bet you'll figure out a way to access the vid files (at least I hope so). Also glad your scoot ran great and provided you with some great times. Scooters can be great inexpensive (well, sometimes ) therapy.

Great pictures, BTW.

[90GTVert]

Thanks Reg. I'm ready to go again. lol There was one spot where you can drive on the beach. I didn't have the balls though. I thought, "Reg would probably do this". I just didn't wanna tear something up trying to get a scoot with narrow 10" tires in super loose sand when I'm that far from home. Woulda bee a cool shot down by the ocean, but it would not have been cool to call someone and say I need a ride and I'm 2hrs away.

I added it up and for all that time, nearly 7hrs, I spent $15.67 on premium gas and $1.25 on a bottle of water. Now that's cheap entertainment. I dunno what a therapist costs, but I'm pretty sure it's not $2.42 per hour.

I've tried 5 vid fix programs so far. One ran all night for just one of the files. I had a great hope for it and nothing. Tried 2 data recovery programs thinking maybe its a memory card error or something. No luck. I'm gonna try an MP4 splitter/joiner and see if that does anything. From what I read, MP4 files (all the GoPro does) can be ruined if just one bit of data is lost.

[Reign]

Can I ask what you're using to play back the MP4's? I've had luck using VLC to play back damaged or incomplete videos downloaded from the internet. Normally something like WMP will just completely stop the video when it reaches the damaged/incomplete portion of the video. VLC just keeps playing, albeit a black screen for a few seconds when it hits those portions.

[90GTVert]

I started with WMP. That says :

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

Switched to VLC immediately after that and it won't play. THe player comes up, but there's no spot for a scree and video length is 00:00. More bad news there is that VLC is supposed to be good at playing a file if it's at all salvageable.

[Reign]

Yea, usually if it's at all salvagable, VLC will play it. What are you using for storage on the gopro? I've had issues in the past with SD cards messing up files if you don't format them everytime you remove an old video.

[Fox]

Glad you got off the anger bus and hopped on the fun train. You sure have a lot of accessories on that thing. Will it make coffee? ;D

[90GTVert]

No coffee. lol Not even enough room to carry a bottle of water with me with tools and everything else.

I'm using a Transcend Class 10 32GB card. It was brand new. One video from the batch worked. Of course that was just the first video of it mounted on the scooter making sure it would turn on and record while hooked to 12V power. None of the vids I wanted worked. I recorded a quick vid after just deleting the files and it worked fine. My normal card is a Class 6 16GB Transcend card. Never had a bit of problem with it. Never formatted it or anything. Film, transfer, delete, repeat.

[90GTVert]

I've tried some more programs and I'm getting nowhere. 21GB of useless "video".

[190mech]

Looks like a great ride Brent!!Reminds me of the old series back in the 70's"Then came Bronson" where a guy toured the country on a harley..Made us all dream of "getting away"!!! :thumb:

[2strokd]

Very nice :riding: :thumb:

[Goosey]

I once had a problem with files from a camera , the transfered files to the computer were all corupted, turned out that the files still on the card were fine. Sucks when you lose all that ireplacable data though. Maybe it was just meant to be, LOL, took your mind off other issues for a while Looks like a great ride! I can see the point of getting hooked up for the GPS so you can enjoy the ride and not worry about getting lost. You can even find gas stations and food easy. I may just be rigging an adapter myself...when I have the time this summer.
I call those snakes, Road Boogies, and it is a very uncomfortable feeling when you hit them. A lot of that in this part of the country :scared:

[90GTVert]

I checked on the cam and they were no good there either. I think I'm gonna try to test and see if connecting and disconnecting the GoPro form external power makes a difference. Maybe there's just enough of a glitch when it goes to charging mode or something that it screws with the file? I dunno. There should have been segments there that were all battery or all charging, but I'm out of ideas otherwise and I'd like to prevent it from happening again. Only other change was that I had the camera set to 720 instead of 1080. Can't see why that would matter though and it's filmed like that on other occasions. I gave up on the vids I had and just deleted them finally.

It's very reassuring just to know I can look at the GPS. Really never needed to, but it does make a really cool speedometer and trip log if nothing else. Kinda cool being able to post the data and such. The 12V receptacle is easy, just get a marine unit to be safe. The handlebar deal I got is really easy to install and works well. You can get extra handlebar mounts too so it's easy to transfer just the case from scoot to scoot or just get the whole deal for each scoot.

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The GPS came with a car charger, but to do multiple things at once, this should work for most modern stuff.

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[90GTVert]

I think the 32GB card has some bad sectors or whatever. I dunno. I was using it in the digi cam to take some pics and a couple of quick little vids. On one vid it said there was an error writing to disk. Recorded OK after that on another attempt and took a few pics. That would be enough of a glitch to ruin my OC trip vids though I'm sure. I guess I'll contact the seller and if they don't wanna replace it I'll try to scan it and fix errors. I guess that will work on removable media just like a HDD?

Oh, and I did format it before using it this time just to see if it mattered.


EDIT : OK, upon dl to my PC some pics are unable to be viewed too. Says they may be corrupt. Sent a msg to the seller. Scanned for errors and it says there are none. I hope the seller cooperates.