How to destroy a GoPro
Wed, 14 Mar 2012That scraping sound you can hear is a mixture of a knee slider and the GoPro camera housing grazing the tarmac at Mugello.
The footage was shot on-board the BMW Motorrad France Team Thevent machine ridden by Hugo Marchand, in testing ahead of the 2012 Endurance World Championship. He managed to wreck the housing that holds the GoPro camera after only three laps.
Speaking to Ian Wheeler at the test, team member and motorcycle racing journeyman Damien Cudlin made a great assessment of Endurance racers: "They spend ages adjusting their levers by millimetres, only to go just as fast after a crash when the bars aren't even straight anymore..."
By Robin Goodwin
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