glenn forger
Guest
Noticed how the driver's fannied about with the reg?
If I was to buy a helmet cam ...
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bicyclos
Part time Anorak
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Just ride your bike and get to work.....no need for a camera if you ride your bike properly.........
Black Country Ste
Senior Member
- Location
- West Midlands
I ride my bike properly. It didn't stop a thug from using his vehicle as a weapon before dragging me off my bike with punches. Lucky I had a camera, eh?
Leodis
Veteran
- Location
- Moortown, Leeds
Tell that to the numerous hit and run around Yorkshire, I take it your bike is easy to replace. That has to be one of the daftest posts I have read on here for a long time "no need for a camera if you ride your bike properly", so what happens when a driver mows into you, is that the cyclist fault as well?
glenn forger
Guest
According to some estimates, 93% of all accidents are caused by driver error.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
What are you on? Yes they make some mounts but so did contour. The difference is that GoPro has produced the camera with the best quality image for some time. I highly doubt that in 3 years time the likes of Sony and JVC are going to produce a better camera (including mounts) and take the market lead away from GoPro.It will take a huge amount of money to do so.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Be warned, on a recent ride (a long one I'll grant you) two of my groups Go-Pro bike mounts failed and dropped the cam to the floor into traffic.
Both failed in exactly the same point, just above the bracket. it seems vibrations kills the plastic and causes cracks.
Hopefully the RAM mounts I use dampen some of the vibration.
It is one of the negatives of a GoPro and Sony the lack of lanyard attachment in case of mount failure.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I did have a picture but cant find it on my phone, the small black arm that turns the cam from right angles to the bar mount, to 90 degrees, just sheered . on mine ... then two days later sheered on another guys. We' d each only ridden 100 or so miles with them mounted and were on tarmac roads.
I was very disappointed.
I don't use the go pro any more for cycling, the files are too large, the formats too incompatible and the files don't offer edit points so you end up having to watch a lot of footage to find the bit you want.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
400bhp
Guru
Any update?
Better than I expected.
If there's street lighting it comes out OK, otherwise you just get the headlights showing up.
Blurb
Über Member
- Location
- Somewhere on the Edgware Rd.
The Sony has a small "eyelet" in the waterproof case which I thread a thin cable tie through and connect to a re-usable cable tie on the bar as a backup to the Minoura mount. Haven't had a problem with the mount, but Sod's Law the one time I forget to connect it something happens.
Roadrider48
Voice of the people
- Location
- Londonistan
Nothing actually happened to the cyclist in this clip! It just goes to prove the point of pointless YouTube uploading and this particular camma going out just looking for something to film. So a van undertakes a few vehicles. Why do you feel compelled to upload this when it has bugger all to do with cycling safety?
