Originally Posted by
Slodin
Hi,
I was wondering where to mount a camera would be the best for road biking.
It's mostly to capture any accidents if I ever get into one. Last year a truck came into my bike lane and forced me to bump the curb and fell off my bike, the truck just did a right turn and left. I couldn't get their license plate number.
My camera is a contour HD which I have a flat surface mount to mount on my helmet by adhesive.
But I start to wonder which side is the best to mount it.
I was thinking about mounting on my left side, since that way it's closer to the cars to capture their plate numbers. (Canadian road)
But everywhere I look people are mounting on the right side of the helmet. So I'm not sure anymore...
Thanks
I have a GoPro mounted on the top, behind the very top of the helmet. I'm not totally happy with this mount for two reasons: it adds weight to my helmet and over the course of longer rides it adds up; and I know damn straight that the helmet is less effective at protecting my head with a camera mounted to it.
On the other hand, bar mounting the camera really limits the range of view, the helmet mount means that the camera records where I'm looking. Reference, a video I took earlier this year, with a bar mount, you'd lose much of the details of what happened here:
*** Language warning, I was 'colorful' with my words and the GoPro picked it up ***