Ninja Mount Launches a GoPro Mount for your Instagram Stories

 Why is this happening????

 I expected nothing, and i'm still let down.

 Join the campaign... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo

 Me too: can't believe they deleted March & moved straight to the April fools jokes!

 This is truly the darkest timeline

 Just what the world needs, more look at me selfies and more social media.

 This could be great. We will likely see people's knees, chins, and hydration hoses more. Woohoo.

 @bananowy: Wow, take a breather sir, you know we're on a Pinkbike comment section right?

 @GSuperstar: yeah exactly. It's a social media comment section full of knobs trying to flex how fashionably anti social media they are to get social media upvotes next to their comments.

 @bananowy: Too much internet for you today I think, go ride your bike and relax Just don't forget to record it in portrait mode.

 Once again a sensible, correct comment downvoted to oblivion. That's pinkbike for you.

 Same here! Just stupid

 It’s stupid and I judge people who use it.

 I kind of works for POV riding though

 @me2menow +1 Incognito Tab

 @haentz: I'm a millennial and I also strongly dislike vertical video.

 It makes sense if your eyes reside in top of each other

 @haentz: ok dude who doesn’t understand how human vision works....

 @TypicalCanadian: Except go pro footage is a fisheye and your focus when riding should mostly be what's in front of you

 Depends on the platform. Most people just post instagram clips now so it makes sense to use an aspect ratio that uses as much screen space as possible. Vertical video also allows a larger vertical field of view allowing you to get both your bike and the trail ahead in the same shot.

 Amen!

 Seems like user error to me. At least you got back on track, though.

 Couldn’t agree more with this!

 Username does not check out

 Same with Strava.

 @gafoto: dumping strava was one of my best MTB decisions ever.

 Same could be said for your entire life. Imagine making decisions based on your own personal preferences, thoughts and ideas......And NOT what others may think

 Underrated comment right here!

 

 Would need a ring light attachment to do that.

 What about the nuts, the tooling for the 2 grams of plastic, sourcing, logistics, customs and taxes, etc.?

You would probably get it for 2 usd on aliexpress but that doesn't say a lot.

 *ColOmbia....

 I'll 3D scan it and print it in the 3D Printer for 10 cents for anyone that will want it

 @theoskar57: Sold!

And of course it comes with the nuts included and free shipping, like on Aliexpress?

 #behumble

 @Dropthedebt: I was wondering if anyone would get it!

 @Woody25: Dude... My favourite female shredders all in one video. The bit at the end in the play park, when Steffi is hula hooping, cracks up my kids everytime.
It's still their most quotable video when we are out riding.

 I bet there are a lot of stress points to deal with on that thing. 3d Printing a piece of plastic is easy, 3d modeling and printing something robust is a lot harder. I'm sure @brianpark can comment on this one with his recent projects.

 Imagine selling something for a profit. Disgusting.

 To be fair, this doesn't look like an FDM 3d print. FDM is the crappiest type where plastic filament is extruded to build layer-by-layer. These prints aren't equally strong in every direction, and are prone to failure along certain planes - like tearing apart a croissant. They also leaven ugly texture. If this mount is 3d printed, it looks like SLS, which creates more uniformly integral parts by fusing powder together. Designing and testing something like this to the point of having a marketable product shouldn't take more than a day in total. The only real time would be waiting for new iterations to print before breaking them. I would imagine a small business might also be using 'questionably acquired' design software to speed up testing with FEA in SolidWORKS or Inventor.

The price for this is probably to offset the high cycle time, where one mount could take 2-3 hours to print, and multiple machines (at ~$1000 each) are needed to keep up with demand, but tooling for injection moulding is too big a risk or investment. Speaking as and Engineering Technologist, a product like this could be pulled off in a week of lunch breaks.

 @micahaalders3: The high price is due to people that will buy it this much.
Holding a gopro with FDM parts isn't even a challenge, I did a dozen of parts to film at different angles for different applications, 0 issue even with my shittiest yellow PLA. They all looks ugly tho, you're right about that part.