Originally Posted by
sdgrannygear
I have a goPRO hero also, but not HD. Under absolutely no circumstance are you to use the handlebar mount! I repeat, do not use the handlebar mount. It is crap. I've broken two already not from crashing or anything like that, but from the natural vibration in the road. The mounts are flimsy and shoddily made. They were nice enough to send me a new mount adaptor piece for free the first time. I made the mistake of using it again and then it broke again mid ride. luckily I was able to pick it up, but the case had been scratched on the lens. I gave up on this camera after that. I should get a new case since I dropped 100+ on the camera. I say if you aren't racing, get the helmet mount. They also have a chest mount but I don't know how good that works or how it feels.
+1.
My handlebar mount broke on a pretty nice descent on the rollers at RAGBRAI this year.
I was doing about 30mph when it snapped sending the camera to the pavement and into the group of riders behind me. Luckily they were far enough behind me to see it so nobody crashed or anything. A very nice person stopped, picked it up and delivered it to me at the bottom of the hill.
I did not take video. I decided to take a random photo every 60 seconds. I captured 378 photos before the mount snapped. I turned them into a slideshow using iPhoto.
http://www.pcsincnet.com/RAGBRAI_2011_2.m4v
and
My RAGBRAI 2011 Blog.