I purchased a new action camera complete with water proof case etc. on ebay for $21 (memory card not included). I will leave this mounted on my bike and run it with continuous looping 10 minute video capture clips.
In less than 7 minutes of having this installed I caught my first idiot in a BMW cutting into my lane with about 1 foot of room to spare. The video quality is not that great because the camera is looking through the lower portion of my windshield and it needs a good polish. I may mount it is a different location later. The actual video quality of the camera is pretty good considering it was only $21 delivered. I have a 100 watt blueish high beam bulb with modulator running and in addition I wear a high viz safety vest, so if the person had looked they would have noticed me.
https://youtu.be/adIr9LVkCmg
There are two reasons why I will run a dash cam from now on.
1) Folks are too distracted with phone calls texting, and the like.
2) A lot of people are just not very honest anymore and don't want to accept responsibility for their own actions. I have seen this several times with accidents where someone is dead wrong but try to blame their mistake on the innocent party.
Had that BMW pulled into my lane and slammed on the brakes for some reason, I would have hit them and good chance they would say it was my fault, which is assumed if you rear end someone.
A dashcam is an inexpensive witness should you ever need one. There are lots of very good dashcam apps you can add on your phone for only a few dollars, but since I use my phone as my GPS etc. I have not been able to find a suitable angle to mount the phone so it can point the camera at the road and have the screen visible to me. If you have an old cell phone you are not using you can get a dashcam app for it and repurpose it as your new dashcam.
WB
In less than 7 minutes of having this installed I caught my first idiot in a BMW cutting into my lane with about 1 foot of room to spare. The video quality is not that great because the camera is looking through the lower portion of my windshield and it needs a good polish. I may mount it is a different location later. The actual video quality of the camera is pretty good considering it was only $21 delivered. I have a 100 watt blueish high beam bulb with modulator running and in addition I wear a high viz safety vest, so if the person had looked they would have noticed me.
https://youtu.be/adIr9LVkCmg
There are two reasons why I will run a dash cam from now on.
1) Folks are too distracted with phone calls texting, and the like.
2) A lot of people are just not very honest anymore and don't want to accept responsibility for their own actions. I have seen this several times with accidents where someone is dead wrong but try to blame their mistake on the innocent party.
Had that BMW pulled into my lane and slammed on the brakes for some reason, I would have hit them and good chance they would say it was my fault, which is assumed if you rear end someone.
A dashcam is an inexpensive witness should you ever need one. There are lots of very good dashcam apps you can add on your phone for only a few dollars, but since I use my phone as my GPS etc. I have not been able to find a suitable angle to mount the phone so it can point the camera at the road and have the screen visible to me. If you have an old cell phone you are not using you can get a dashcam app for it and repurpose it as your new dashcam.
WB