There are nine different teams using onboard cameras in the tour this year, but they're not using Go

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If you've been watching the Tour de France you know that it's been one of the more brutal tours in recent years, with intense weather conditions and terrible crashes that have led to several sailing the grand tour book 18 top contenders abandoning the tour already. It's also the first year that riders are allowed to put cameras on their bikes —so viewers can access the firsthand perspective for the very first time.
There are nine different teams using onboard cameras in the tour this year, but they're not using GoPro: Rather, most of them are using the CM-1000 camera made by the component giant Shimano, presumably based on weight and size concerns (the Garmin-Sharp team, of course, is using Garmin cameras). Like your average onboard camera, they either hang from the handlebars or the saddle, and record sailing the grand tour book 18 surprisingly steady footage.
But unlike regular sport cameras, these babies are light: Only 3 ounces, compared to a super-light GoPro HERO3, which weighs almost 5 ounces with its housing. Still, according to The New York Times , some riders won't carry their cameras in the mountain stages—like this week's—because even a few ounces can make all the difference when you're climbing. From the helicopter, it looks hectic, but it's nothing compared with what we actually go through and what we see from the bike camera, Giant-Shimano's Koen de Kort told the NYT.
Of course, it would be amazing to watch this footage live—but that's further down the road. For now, we can access the highlights online after they happen, which is also fun; watching the sheer insanity of each stage from the helicopter or a motorcycle camera only tells you so much. Later, you can log in and find out what was really going on.
One unfortunate thing? sailing the grand tour book 18 That the edited footage uploaded to YouTube has music dubbed over it. It'd be even more interesting to hear the shouts, orders, and conversations between the riders sailing the grand tour book 18 in these intense moments. Maybe the sponsors are worried about about the colorful language?
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