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

the footage looks great but i would be more worried about doing myself an injury on it if you came off

the footage looks great but i would be more worried about doing myself an injury on it if you came off

A valid concern, it's a nice little spike isn't it.. I'll try and get a 2nd handy Chesty then, can probably wear it under a button up shirt or something.

Hehe. I use a variety of mounts but always find that the chesty for me gives the best results. I don't particularly like the sports bra look but a jacket, gilet or shirt can cover up most of the webbing.

Other options include under the bars facing forward or under the saddle facing backwards but can result in more shaking on the footage as there is no damping effect. Also they can pick up a bit more noise as the sound gets transmitted and enhanced by the frame/handlebar material

Oh and any ebay chesty copy that is available for less than a tenner usually does just as good as an expensive GoPro branded model

Apologies if this has already been asked (47 pages - too many to go through) but does anybody make a (rear) camera sending live video to a (handlebar mounted) phone, ie to act as a rear view mirror? could be wired or wireless.

I've done a bunch of googling and seems there are a couple of tiny kickstarter type outfits, but they all look pretty ropey.

I'm guessing the fact nobody seems to do this means it's a bad idea / doesn't work for some reason? display brightness? lag or drop out? I really struggle to find a rear mirror set up that works for me, and this just seems so obvious, but maybe I'm wrong?

Why not just use a mirror? Though really shoulder checking is fine.

Would a Garmin radar device help?

I've tried a few, but for some reason I just can't get on with them / doesn't give me confidence. Same with shoulder checking - I just can't seem to get a good (enough) picture of what's behind me from a quick glance. I should add, I am not a confident cyclist!

Thanks, but I'd really like to have a good visual picture of what's behind me - I'm not sure a little dot will give me the peace of mind I'm after

In anticipation of a recent trip to Girona I bought a GoPro 11 mini which was on offer at a decent price direct from GoPro. This is to complement my ageing Hero 4 and Session 4.

There is a slight catch in that this comes with a £49 p. a. subscription to GoPro but for this they do provide unlimited storage of your footage (until of course you stop paying).

Ignoring that for the moment first impressions are good. The camera is simple to operate although I'm still having some issues with footage being recorded the in the correct orientation even though I seem to have the correct settings. The stabilisation feature also works very well so no more shaky footage.

One of the advantages of recent GoPro models (I think it started circa Hero 8) is that when you upload the footage via the Quik app it auto-generated an edit for you.

I've seen a few of them now and some of them are a bit too long and bloated for my current liking (I have definitely produced long and bloated edits myself on the past) but here's a nice short, snappy edit using footage from the trip that I quit like. Not sure I would ever get around to editing something this well myself.

https://youtu.be/_RlV1AvDGUk

just bought a GoPro off here I'm planning on mainly using for recording commutes.
my commute bike has a pizza rack so I was thinking of mounting the GoPro to that somehow, probably centrally mounted under the front of the rack.
anyone done anything similar or is it a bad idea?
I don't really want it on the bars, and I have a bag on the rack so a Garmin mount wouldn't work for me.

I think I tried this and couldn't get it to clear the front tyre, but depends how low your rack is. Might have issues with road spray too. I figured I'd mount it below one of the parallel rails on the right, with something like this but in the right diameter. Never found the right mount though.

yeah, that's the kind of thing but not quite right.
looking at it I think road spray might be an issue as well.
there's a little tube brazed under the front of the rack so maybe I can 3d model something that uses that and get it printed?

something like the supernova multimount would be ideal but I don't think a GoPro will fit to it...
https://supernova-lights.com/en-eu/products/multimount-sa

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I had a rack mounted camera for a while, but I ended up shifting it away to the handlebars as I found there was too much vibration and the camera was missing a lot of detail. Worth experimenting with - maybe a pizza rack is more rigid than a surly 24 pack rack.

yeah, I guess the pizza rack is fairly rigid, which might make it worse in terms of vibrations?
I'm not after making any fancy edits or anything from the footage.
I think I've figured a way to mount the camera with a few bits and bobs I've got lying around (hacks and bodges thread job) so hopefully I can test it out at some point this week.

After a car pulled alongside me, and the passenger chucked a full can of beer at my head in the glorious Kent lanes last night, I think it's time to get a camera as this will be my regular commute route soon.

Ideally I want something that attaches to the bike and records on a loop and is good at night, should I just pony up for a Cycliq, or are there any other options I should be considering, would rather not Garmin but maybe the camera is better than the crappy gps?

got the gopro bodged onto the pizza rack with an old bit of angled steel and some miscellaneous spare nuts and bolts.
test commute tomorrow.

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I tested out the rack mount today.
the GoPro does an impressive job of smoothing out the footage.
uploaded a boring edit made with the built in software as a test.
https://youtu.be/CP3GkIslwIg?si=Al3wCslwxxGkghdI

Anyone got a cheapo cam for sale? That works? And is small? Ish?

^ this but 2nd dibs to casaBLANKA & preferably for collection in s.mcr or nearby.

In the meantime I bought a passpixi which will hopefully yield a bit more space with no need to sit on evidence I don't have time/ energy to submit.

Can I get third in line for something? I want one to record how shit at MTBing I am, so something with stabilisation and chest/head mountable

First ride with this as deterrent. I hate the look of it. Within 3 mins a nice wide overtake (good) preceeding immediate cut in to turn left ahead of me (and daughter). Smh.

Other than that, I think it made a few hold back where they'd try find a way through previous, hard to prove though.

Need one up front too really to give oncoming folks the same doubt message.

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Spotted this GoPro attached using a headset spacer in an article where it is not mentioned.
Suspect it is 3d printed and could be a one off but has anyone seen it for sale anywhere?

Not interested in alterantives, I already have a bodge but thought this looked neat.

https://road.cc/content/tech-news/get-fit-decathlons-zwift-compatible-trainers-more-306007