Attaching a Camera to a Bicycle Handlebar

Enjoy cycling as well as biking with a handlebar camera mount. Bike through areas that offer such beautiful scenery, that you can now just click and save, and enjoy looking at  a later date.
STEPS
1. Place the hose clamp around your handlebar with the screw fastener placed away from where your will have to rest your fingers.
2. Mark the vertical top point with a permanent marker.
3. Remove the clamp and drill a 1/4 inch hole at the vertical top point.Smooth all rough edges.
4. Cut a section of old innertube to fit under the Clamp. Slide the 1/4 inch screw through the hole you drilled and secure it with one of the lock washers and a wingnut.
5. Place the assembly on your handlebar, positioning it vertically with the innertube underneath. Snug the hoseclamp down over the innertube section.
6. Place the other wingnut and lock washer on the screw upside own. Twirl it down a quarter inch to accommodate your camera’s screw mount.
7. Put your camera on and twirl up the top wing nut to secure.

Tips
* You can use “LockTite” or similar product to help hold your washer and wingnut firmly.
* You could also use a large diameter washer above your top wingnut to provide a somewhat larger base.
* This will work for smaller digital cameras, but not as well for the larger SLRs due to size and weight issues.

Warnings
* Use common sense! Using an imbalanced load such as a DSLR with a telephoto lens, or a bridge camera on this mount is a bad idea, as they’ll put undue stress on the mount point.
* Rough terrain, such as that encountered when mountain biking, jumping, or even rolling off curbs can do damage to your camera’s shutter, among other things.

Things You’ll Need
* Hose Clamp
* 1/4 inch screw. Length should equal the height you want to raise your camera up from the handlebars.
* 1/4 inch drill bit (and drill)
* Section of old inner tube.
* Two 1/4 inch Flange Washers (locking washers)
* Two 1/4 inch Wing Nuts

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