Helemet cam

burnoil

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As dorky as it may look I have been running with a side-mounted helmet cam for some time now. I use it to record everywhere I go and I do it to have evidence in case someone whacks me with their cage while I ride. The cameras are cheap and so are the memory cards.

I run a Contour Roam 1600 and a 32GB memory card. I can record on and off almost all day long, but it'll do about 2 hours straight at 720P (it can do 1080, too). It has a fairly wide-angle lens so I can even get my mirrors if someone comes up from behind.

I know it is an after-the-fact solution, but at least it is something. Cheap insurance, methinks. I did have one person at a light ask me if it was for recording myself when I break the speed limit doing wheelies...I said, "Nope, it is used to record people like you who run us off the road." I gave him a wink, but he just stared with the light coming on dimly above his head. :)
 

iridemotorbikes

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Been doing the same for a while, if something ever happens nice to be able to say "you might want to watch this"... LoL
 

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Saw a great vid from a chap on a vstrom forum in the UK, some woman did a U-Turn and took him out, I was half expecting a situation where you may have been able to see it building up ahead, but it was a proper last minute thing, without the camera you know she would have been claiming he was speeding and came out of nowhere.

I dunno about elsewhere, but in the UK many non bikers will also back up such claims and state the bike was going too fast etc.

I used to live in a village where every time I came in some old bloke at one of the houses at the edge fo the village would come out of his house and shake fist fist and shout as any bike came past - regardless of how fast they were going, me and my mates would slow right down and ride past at 15mph just to laugh at the old fool - but it shows how some folk can be very prejudiced, but the camera never lies.
 

iridemotorbikes

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Travex said:
I think I ride more then most, not so much that I worry as its just extra insurance.
40 years on two wheels-- 30+ years on the street 10 years before that in the dirt, over a million street miles and I've seen auto drivers do things no one would believe- Having video to show some other ass hat is a fault is priceless.. Also run a dash cam in my vehicle.

As a motorcyclist you are perceived as being responsible for wrecks or reckless riding contributed to the accident, just about by all-- LEO's, Joe blow citizen, witnesses...etc...etc.
So for me to be able to say "you might want to watch this video" is a game changer when the soccer mom in the suburban swears I ran the red light or was doing a 100mph and came out of nowhere and smashed into her.....

Just saying.....
 

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I'm with you in miles, time, and experience and can certainly understand your (the) use of a cam. My post simply reflects a contrarian view that too much tech is antithetical to my purpose in riding. Your points are of course valid.

Presently, your show-and-tell approach would serve well in shutting the mouth of a woman who claims that I intentionally and maliciously sped up to strike her Cadillac. I often do that on motorcycles when I feel my scapula, shoulder, clavical, ribs, ankle and C's 4-7 have been serving me a bit too well. :D
 

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+1 for the camera's. I am guessing the camera(s) also let us remember our rides no matter how good or bad they were.
 

Rasher

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The Mrs wants one on her bike, fitting a model that just auto-turns on with the bikes pwoer and loop records for the duration of the memory card, £150 all in with power kit etc. much as I prefer to ::021::

In this day and age these seem to be getting quite essential, in the UK witnesses are almost certainly gonna state the bike was speeding / came out of nowhere etc. just due to the prejudice of the public, I would guess well under 10% of UK citizens have ridden a motorcycle, and all they have to go on is the media sensationalism of how we all drive at 200mph, eat babies and have a death wish.
 

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I use a Sena H10. Intercom and camera at the same time. So long it's worked very well.
 
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