Acoustic Cancellation

A while ago I posted a video of me riding up Waimea Canyon on two motorcycle forums. The responses from the first forum, Sportbike Network, commented on how stylish my helmet ears were and how nice the road looked. The audience on SVRider was a bit of a different crowd. Everyone wanted a different soundtrack. Only one person replied that he liked my song. Sigh. And I went out of my way to find Cheap Trick's Reach Out because I remembered it from Heavy Metal.

Anyway, I decided to record my entire run without music so everyone can hear my miss-shifts and botched downshifts.

This first video starts off at nearly sea-level and goes up until a spot called FM. Why it is called that, I have no idea. Seems we have tons of weird nicknames for these places.



This second video picks up from FM and goes to the Y Junction. I normally call it the "intersection," but GSXRGrrrl insists I call it the Y Junction. Whatever. Do keep in mind that when I hear Y, I remember the old joke of, "eating at the Y."

Don't worry, I know those mountain bikers I passed.



I do have to apologize for this last video. I know I promised not to use my super-powers for selfish reasons, but my camera batteries were running low, and it was going to rain soon. I just had to make the SUV infront of me disappear.

Here is the third leg of my run. It goes from the Y to the first lookout. There's another 5 minutes or so of twisties past this area, but I don't go there. The road tends to be in crappier condition and there's no good place to stop. At the first lookout you have working bathrooms, a nice parking lot, and many tourists to practice your voyeur skills on.



You can see that I still need practice on being a voyeur.