Cycle Cameras / Helmet Cams (GoPro, Drift, Veho, Contour, Fly6, Fly12, SJCAM, Apeman, 1080p, etc.)

£80 would be worth it, even if you'd be buying a new one each year when the charging ports & battery went fubar.

£200 though. Lozzles.

^ this. £200 is nearly GoPro money.

they break really easily

Thanks.

This is not what I look for in product reviews. I'll pass.

Exactly. I thought £80 was steep, considering I got the Apeman front camera for £25 but it has performed so it's probably borderline ok. But 200 quid for the tech that should be getting cheaper is fucking lunacy.

I imagine they are aggressively protecting IP and going after anybody else making bike / light / camera combos, entirely stifling improvements and lower prices.

They're no longer an innovator, but a VC-driven cash grab.

I hope their bike cameras record them saying something embarrassing at the traffic lights, and they cringe about it when they watch the recording.

But GoPro battery doesn't last long nearly as long.

I used to have a Fly6CE but it broke (got water in, I think I left the flap open on a very wet day). I've ordered a new one and a Fly12. I have a GoPro 9 too.

I also have a Contour Roam which replaced a Contour I smashed in a crash. Contour were my favourite in many ways, sad they folded.

But GoPro battery doesn't last long nearly as long.

True. Was merely a comparison of overpriced tech.

While mugs like me have several are they overpriced?

I assume something like a Fly6 is so much more than the equivalent tech in a phone shaped thing because of much smaller volumes to offset the manufacturing start up costs etc.

Yet the V1 model was selling new for £80 just a couple of years ago. If the RD has been done, why the more than doubling in price?

As for cost I will pay £200 for an Exposure light that I know is solid but not for a Cycliq. My missus has a Cycliq copy that came from here for a tenner and it works almost as well as my 80 quid version. I hate buying cheap ripoffs but I will not pay £200 for a Cycliq.

Cycliq's Fly 6 pricing is ridiculous (~£200 for Gen III version, whereas I paid ~£80 for the original version that's still going) so has anyone found a cheap copy that is as effective?

Have seen a few good reviews of these on FB:
https://www.chilli-tech.com/action-cameras?product_id=159

Mount one under the saddle with this:
https://www.chilli-tech.com/action-camera-accessories/bullet-cam-accessories/rear-saddle-mount-for-bullet-cam

Doesn't say anything about image stabilisation though...

I might give one a go, My Aldi Fly6 copy died and cunt in a porsche almost rear-ended me yesterday desperate to queue for some traffic lights, naturally, so I'm keen to run a rear cam again.

Aldi Fly6

Do they still do these? I think that's what the missus has.

Also, these would be rad if you could wire them up to a dynamo and have it on constant loop. 2-5hr run time is barely getting me out of town and even the Cycliq's 4-5hrs is no good for audaxes. If someone built a "wired" version it'd be sweet.

Seems they have a front one, but not a rear light/camera:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/bikemate-front-bike-camera-%26-light/p/713061512217601

Yet the V1 model was selling new for £80 just a couple of years ago. If the RD has been done, why the more than doubling in price?

Can't keep selling the old one as the parts are no longer available so they have to rework the board and the case and then add in a load of other features while they are there?

My missus has a Cycliq copy that came from here for a tenner and it works almost as well as my 80 quid version.

I have a GoPro clone (Crosstour) as well as a real one and the difference is massive. The GoPro is well worth the extra to me.

Seems they have a front one, but not a rear light/camera:

https://www.aldi.co.uk/bikemate-front-bi­ke-camera-%26-light/p/713061512217601

Looks like an og Fly12 copy, except with a shit mount. My OG fly12 is still going strong, I just run it without the lights and supplement with a good separate light to extend the run time.

Maxtek was the brand from Aldi I think. They don't appear any more.

Tredz have an ETC one...
https://www.tredz.co.uk/.ETC-Action-Camera-Rear-Light_229203.htm

they have to rework the board and the case and then add in a load of other features while they are there?

Did they though? Also, more than doubling the price for 'extra features'? All it has to do is record video and flash a red light.

Don't get me wrong. I have a GoPro. I still think they are too expensive.

I can't afford to spend £200 on a rear cam I can't use for anything else though. And the OG price seemed fine. Just north of a ton would be ok. £200 is too hefty for a one-trick pony IMO.

I bought this cam for the front too - so far so good.
Battery life is good, image is not stabilised and manual is non-existant but has survived a couple of hard drops so far

Tredz

But is it in stock though? And I mean is it really, rather than a buy-it-and-then-we'll-tell-you-it's-not-actually-in-stock approach...

Edit: just based on my own experience of a couple of purchases from them - YMMV

Yes and I've not had issues with Tredz before.

Also, more than doubling the price for 'extra features'?

The Fly6 launched on Kickstarter for 169 AUD but apparently that wasn't sustainable as the first non Kickstarter version was 169 USD. If you got one for 80 quid you got a bargain/discount somewhere. The current version is 229 USD RRP so not really double. I agree a basic without the Bluetooth features I never use would be nice though.

170AUD is ~£90, 169USD is £126

I paid £80.99 from Sigma Sport on 26/01/2018

Gen3 is £179 in their Black Friday sale.

Fair enough. Maybe I've been unlucky a couple of times then.

Tredz have an ETC one...
https://www.tredz.co.uk/.ETC-Action-Came­ra-Rear-Light_229203.htm

Looks shit:
https://road.cc/content/review/etc-watchman-action-camera-rear-light-280131

Yeah I read that.

If there really is nothing that will do the job under £200 then I'll probably just go for a proper camera out the back and use normal rear light. If I'm going to pay silly money for a solution I'd rather have an dyno light or Exposure + GoPro than some Cycliq shit.