Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Two bonnets you could've shat on there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=KKUXJqbEMCw

Finally I'm going to get a camera, I'm fucking sick of it, bad passes and what seems to be a new trend of deliberately buzzing cyclists at between 70 & 100km/h (3 out of my last 5 tours have involved that happening). Fuckers on phones drifting towards me. Today's ride had all that plus a bus pulling out on me. @edscoble ^ Is that your fly6? I might plump for it. It's a shame, I don't want to have to film everything I do and I've got better things to spend my money on but if the day comes when one of these fuckers does take me out I want there to be some evidence. I'm also going to make regular complaints to the fuzz. It's really a shame to feel like I have to do it but I'm fed up with it and at the very least I can compile a list of registration numbers of bonnets that need shitting on.

My camera cost me £120 on eBay.

I got £2600 when I had a SMIDSY. So they are worth the outlay.

What did you get?

I saw some truly dickheaded driving last night. I won't recount the tale because TL;DR but a camera would have been great. Even though I wasn't involved, I would have liked to have been able to help.

Ummm... £2600 after fees.

Oh! Sorry. Had a blond moment there...

I got a contour Roam. A bit fiddly converting the files to standard windows stuff for the police but good, wide angle and a microphone built in.

Ha! Yeah, not quite what I meant. OK. I've been thinking more and more that it could be time to invest. The question is helmet or handlebar mounted?

Handlebar mounted cameras won't get embedded in your skull, but they also won't capture what you are looking at.

Plus if you buy a helmet-mounted one you'll need to buy a helmet to go with it

(helmet thread >>>>>>>>>)

this is a big reason for me not having a camera, don't wish to wear a helmet

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/gopro-chest-camera-mount-harness/
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/garmin-shoulder-harness-mount/
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/gopro-head-strap-and-quick-clip-for-hero3/

I don't feel the need for a camera any more than I feel the need for a helmet - I'd rather avoid the situations that they are supposedly 'designed' for.

Am unclear as to what "they" refers to. I am not sure how one can avoid other people's lapses of concentration or acts of unwarranted aggression (eg punishment passes). So at times the idea of filming is very appealing.

I wonder if having a camera might be a bit like having a helmet dangling off your bars - the one time you need it you're not using it.

So much this.
Nothing ever happens when I have the camera on record.
In the last month I have followed a skip lorry that hit a bridge, watched a cyclist mysteriously fall of his bike in a straight line and had a scrote try and push a pram with a baby in it into my front wheel while hurling abuse at me. Was the camera turned on?

or the lens cap was left on ..

Thats pretty fucking rough, did he actually ram you? Them traffic calming measures and state of road would cause any road user to have to use the centre or right hand side of the road, dangerous road planning if you ask me

Had one yesterday, old duffer in an automatic Honda who thought overtake into a cross roads then left hanger to the kerb, followed by several hundred metres of brake check + squash into a parked bus was an acceptable thing to do, then tried to reverse over me. Apparently I don't pay road tax so don't have a right, but actually he was lucky I didn't pull him out of the car by his face.
So do not want to get a camera and be that guy, but now reached the level that this deliberate intention to maim with a car has become common place. Most effective thing I've found to do is when they get out of hand and start becoming violent, remove the keys and ride 100m away with them into a group of other people or police station.

That's my Fly6 and it's a cracking little camera, 6 hours battery running on a loop.

Very useful and cheap in Wiggle.

Not quite rammed, but a tap to get me to stop, I'm not stopping for anyone in a car after getting punched in the face for doing so last time, respond is good;

Dear Mr Scoble,

Please accept my apologies and ignore the message which was sent to you earlier today.

The correct location has been identified as we had searched for Albert Terrace and not Aldebert Terrace as stated.

A letter has now been sent to the registered keeper making them aware of the submission. We hope that the warning will alter their driving behaviour improve their consideration for other road users.

Please continue to report any incidents which you deem necessary in the future, although we hope your cycling experience is a safe one.

Kind Regards,

PC EL-HARRAK PC1455T
On behalf of Roadsafe London

I don't want to be that guy too, mainly because I'm afraid that I might become more aggressive responding to even the smallest misdemeanours.

That last incident however is justified to report it to the police since the driver insist on getting me off the bike to "talk" to me.

edscoble in reply to @BrickMan

Not quite rammed, but a tap to get me to stop, I'm not stopping for anyone in a car after getting punched in the face for doing so last time, respond is good;

Someone 'tapped' my back wheel once, so I got off and threw my bike on the bonnet of his Jag. Fisticuffs ensued.

Aye thats it, I'm under a lot of stress at the minute and your average bad driver incident is approaching enough to cause me to react badly to a situation, a camera strapped to riders/drivers/commercials does have its benefits but those that I know carry them seen to be involved in increasingly more rough situations. Some bravado from having the 'safe backup' of the camera seems to create it.
Right now probably not a good idea for me to have one!

Some bravado from having the 'safe backup' of the camera seems to create it.

Do aggro people choose to wear cameras or do cameras make people more aggro?