Hot Wheels Road Trip

For your amusement… a first person perspective of what it would be like to drive a Hot Wheel down a track.

Enjoy!

Ride along on the Hot Wheels car as it travels through 8 different track sections all connected by teleporting tunnels. From the backyard to the big hill to the pool and back, this track’s got it all.

Each section worked on its own from tunnel to tunnel. The cart is powered entirely by gravity at all times.

In total there are 11 cuts in the video, 7 between locations and 4 for slow motion footage. The jump section and the loop section were filmed twice, once in 30 fps and again in 120 fps, and the final video cuts from the normal speed footage to the slow motion footage for the duration of both the jump and the loop.

The cart worked reasonably well underwater and only fell off the pool track a few times. The main problem with the pool track was keeping the track connected and in place. A rock was attached to the end of the track in order to weigh it down.

In total about 200 feet of track was used, nearly all of which is present in the 4th section. Filmed with a GoPro Hero4 Session mounted on a modified 2014 Pharadox car. Filmed in California and Colorado.

SPECIAL THANKS

Anneliese Brincks, Ben Hunter, Mark Carlson, Matthew Carlson, and the residents of The Booge

 

First Person On A BMW S1000RR

Ride along on a BMW S1000RR at 299km/h (about 185 miles per hour) on a German highway.

Enjpy!

First time reaching 299km/h on my BMW S1000RR. Recorded using GoPro Hero2.

Please note this speed is legal on this (and many other) stretch on highway in Germany.

First Person On A BMW S1000RR

 

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Bear Chases Mountain Biker

Have you seen this video of a large Bear chasing a mountain biker? It may be one of the most intense things you’ve ever seen!

Too bad it’s fake.

A video that has gone viral today shows a horrifying mountain biking ride gone wrong, when a man is chased down by a big bear and is seen peddling as fast as he can to safety. Your palms sweat as you watch it and nervously await his fate, and you feel like you’re right there as the GoPro camera he uses to capture the incident makes it feel all to real.

Well, this particular footage is not real, but this popular video sure does a good job of making 1.5 million viewers believe it is. The bear is just a little too crisp when you compare it to the surroundings. The bear is the only thing in the GoPro video that doesn’t seem to suffer from motion blur. If the CGI wasn’t obvious, surely you must have noticed how stupid it would be to just get off your bike because of a little branch, jog to a tree, and just stand there staring in the opposite direction for several seconds without looking if the bear was following.

However, what is real is the original story of this horrifying incident along with the actual footage from it (shown at the bottom of this article). Apparently this YouTube user and graphic artist extraordinaire didn’t think the actual clip of the event showed enough of the bear, so he put his skills to work to make that happen.

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Bear Chases Mountain Biker

 

Eagle Steals Camera

Mason Colby was filming eagles eating salmon with his GoPro camera when one of them swooped down, grabbed the camera and flew away it.

Set up my go pro next to some salmon heads from the days catch to film the eagles eating and next thing I know, one of them swoops down and snags the camera right off the ground. It carried it up to a mile away and I lost sight of it. For four hours we searched in the rain until I finally found it and the camera was still intact. So glad I got the footage!

Eagle Steals Camera

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