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skitzo2121

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So a friend of mine totaled his bike today just 5 weeks after he gets his new FZ8. A guy ran a stop sign and my freind Tboned him of course no insurance and he told the cop that it was my friends fault. Luckaly my friend wasn't hurt to bad just a broken coller bone and some swelling. We'll at that point the cop starts to let my freind have until my freind pulls out his go pro and shows that the idiot caged ran the stop sign. So after this i will be going to get a gopro tomorrow as now I believe every motorcycle rider should have one so we can prove that we. Where not in the wrong
 
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Cerebus

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I'm rocking a Replay XD 1080 on my helmet for just this reason. It's retarded the number of people who try to kill me in a month's time.
 
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Scott_Thomas

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skitzo2121 said:
So a friend of mine totaled his bike today just 5 weeks after he gets his new FZ8. A guy ran a stop sign and my freind Tboned him of course no insurance and he told the cop that it was my friends fault. Luckaly my friend wasn't hurt to bad just a broken coller bone and some swelling. We'll at that point the cop starts to let my freind have until my freind pulls out his go pro and shows that the idiot caged ran the stop sign. So after this i will be going to get a gopro tomorrow as now I believe every motorcycle rider should have one so we can prove that we. Where not in the wrong
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Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Every time I see a video of someone being pulled over or getting in an accident. I don't wanna make YouTube videos, but for my own well being I may get one.

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skitzo2121

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It's just crazy I always heard the story's about cagers blameing accidents on motorcycles but never thought anything about it till today is always figured the cops would look at all angles and not just assume that it was the motorcycles fault but I was wrong. Not that I'm trying to say all accidnts between cages and bikes are the cages fault by no means
 
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BoneJj

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helmet cams are a very important item anymore...

I keep one cam on the helmet or one on the bike when I ride anymore. A few batteries and plenty of sd card storage and I'm good to go.

I use the Sony AS30V on the bike as it has image stabilization built in. Makes for some really good video...
 
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I would love to ride with one on my helmet, but I don't know if my state allows them. Some states don't allow anything on the helmet.

As an alternative, I suppose I could mount a camera to the swing arm. That's not the best view though. I could attach a camera to the front fork through. That wouldn't be so bad.

By the way, how did your friend show the cop on the scene the footage from the GoPro? If we're all on a motorcycle, we'll have no way of viewing the footage till later.
 
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FastFreddy

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If a car got T-boned from pulling out from a stop sign, you'd think the cop would immediately know what happened, he was probably assuming the motorbike was speeding.

This incident reminds me of the time I bought a cheap car for my girlfriend at the time and drove it for 2 weeks to make sure there was nothing wrong with it. Because the car was non-descript compared to my normal turbo sportscar, you could drive like a madman way above the limit and in and out of lanes and no-one would give a stiff, but in the sportscar, you go within 15 km/h of the limit and people start looking and tsk tsk'ing thinking that you are driving like a demon just because the car looks fast. Similar with motorbikes possibly.

I've thought about using a GoPro on the ride to work, but there's at least 3 incidents every 10 kms, it'd be a full time job just to video edit all the incidents in a 15 km ride every day. You can't even drive 5 km without some thug culture numbskull wanting to intimidate the motorbike these days. If I see a badged Golf, I pull over and stop completely, they are very dangerous drivers I"ve found don't go near badged Golf's whatever you do.

Some days I get my own back, like when a chinese lady forced me over onto the mud in stopped traffic while I was filtering, so therefore one mud rooster tail coming up straight for your spotless Audi, I'm gonna have to clean the rear wheel area now.
 
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BoneJj

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SampsonNation said:
I would love to ride with one on my helmet, but I don't know if my state allows them. Some states don't allow anything on the helmet.

As an alternative, I suppose I could mount a camera to the swing arm. That's not the best view though. I could attach a camera to the front fork through. That wouldn't be so bad.

By the way, how did your friend show the cop on the scene the footage from the GoPro? If we're all on a motorcycle, we'll have no way of viewing the footage till later.
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Take the card out of the camera and put it in your phone... playback possible.
 
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BoneJj

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FastFreddy said:
If a car got T-boned from pulling out from a stop sign, you'd think the cop would immediately know what happened, he was probably assuming the motorbike was speeding.

This incident reminds me of the time I bought a cheap car for my girlfriend at the time and drove it for 2 weeks to make sure there was nothing wrong with it. Because the car was non-descript compared to my normal turbo sportscar, you could drive like a madman way above the limit and in and out of lanes and no-one would give a stiff, but in the sportscar, you go within 15 km/h of the limit and people start looking and tsk tsk'ing thinking that you are driving like a demon just because the car looks fast. Similar with motorbikes possibly.

I've thought about using a GoPro on the ride to work, but there's at least 3 incidents every 10 kms, it'd be a full time job just to video edit all the incidents in a 15 km ride every day. You can't even drive 5 km without some thug culture numbskull wanting to intimidate the motorbike these days. If I see a badged Golf, I pull over and stop completely, they are very dangerous drivers I"ve found don't go near badged Golf's whatever you do.

Some days I get my own back, like when a chinese lady forced me over onto the mud in stopped traffic while I was filtering, so therefore one mud rooster tail coming up straight for your spotless Audi, I'm gonna have to clean the rear wheel area now.
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I've ridden in some pretty densly populated cities and I have to say that I've not experience anything to the level you are stating. Granted on a 10-15 mile ride to and from work at the time I would get one person that was full of stupid but for the most part it wasn't that bad. It was typically the same person for a month or more at a time until they realized that I'm not going to act like a fool.

It's only when other bikers got on the road that I would act up, couldn't let them beat me to my turn off.... LOL.
 
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I'd venture to say the DMV is one of the most dangerous places to ride with all our idiots on the road, and a staggering number of them without license and insurance.

Friend of mine was riding, had a green light. A car facing the opposite direction made a left turn 90 degrees to his travel. When the car saw the bike, the car (why? we have no idea) slammed on their brakes and my friend t-boned the car in the middle of the intersection. Driver sped away leaving my friend with two broken arms and one broken leg. THAT was the day I bought my GoPro.
 
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xJoshuaDrakex

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I have a go pro hero 2 and its on everytime I ride. I have gotten so many close calls on video its crazy. Lucky enough to never have actually gotten hit like your friend. I strongly suggest wearing some sort of camera.
 
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Fizzer6R

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this is one of the reasons I only use a bike for pleasure and not primary transportation. it seems like it's only a matter of time not if an auto driver will not see you. I wasn't on the high viz. gear needed when 1st came out, but sure am now, anything you can use to increase the chances of them seeing you. some guys put flashing strobe lights on front and/or back to help them notice...

w/the cams, I know they are light, but isn't it still odd having to take off your helmet and be careful putting it down not to damage the bulky unit sticking out? we have bluetooth etc., be nice if they came out w/a helmet w/a cam built-in so they'd be more flush
 
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BoneJj

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SampsonNation said:
My phone only accepts Micro SD. Maybe with an adapter I could play it back on an iPod Touch? That'd be awesome!
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most newer camera use micro sd so it wouldn't be an issue for you at all. I do have an adapter like though, I got it off of DealeXtreme - Cool Gadgets at the Right Price - DX Free Shipping Worldwide, it was only a couple bucks. I use that with my dslr cards for when I want to post a quick picture from the camera. I just have to remember to shoot RAW + JPG when I do that.... lol.
 
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nismos14

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I have a swan freestyle cam if anyone wants something to get'em by like new, come with various extra pieces, great cam and only $90!
 

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nismos14

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SampsonNation said:
By the way, how did your friend show the cop on the scene the footage from the GoPro? If we're all on a motorcycle, we'll have no way of viewing the footage till later.
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Hero 3+ allows viewing via APP on the phone through wifi connection. Works great. OR LCD bacpac as stated below, but not necessary since you can view through android and iOS apps.

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His has a small screen on the back of it so. U can plAy it back
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Fizzer6R said:
this is one of the reasons I only use a bike for pleasure and not primary transportation. it seems like it's only a matter of time not if an auto driver will not see you. I wasn't on the high viz. gear needed when 1st came out, but sure am now, anything you can use to increase the chances of them seeing you. some guys put flashing strobe lights on front and/or back to help them notice...

w/the cams, I know they are light, but isn't it still odd having to take off your helmet and be careful putting it down not to damage the bulky unit sticking out? we have bluetooth etc., be nice if they came out w/a helmet w/a cam built-in so they'd be more flush
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there's nothing stopping an accident from happening on a pleasure ride either. A lot of times it happens in that case and not commuting. There are a number of place you can mount the cam, mine is mounted under the front mirror using an adapter and multiple connectors to get my angle right.

They do have helmets with cams for snowboarding, not sure why not motorcycling, but I know it does reduce some of the structural integrity of the helmet, maybe that's why.

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Since GoPro's use full sized SD cards, it would be an issue for most of us. I'm guessing that your Sony cam uses microSD's?
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3 uses MicroSD.
 
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