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Old 05-21-15 | 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by WheresWaldo
@ItsJustMe, I am sure you will likely print up a new mount for the Fly6, would love to see it when you are done.

I still think the Virb is a bargain.
I probably will. The seatpost mount for the Fly6 is utterly useless except on a seatpost and there aren't any other options. So if you use a rack trunk bag as I do, you're SOL.

Also, the seatpost mount that they provide is basically impossible to get off the camera. I'll cover it in my review when I post it, but every time I take it off (twice so far) it takes a couple of minutes and I wind up skinning a knuckle. I don't think it's possible to get it off on the bike, I have to take the rubber bands off and remove the whole mount and everything.

Short review time, there's something to be said for a cam that's designed to work on a bike. The incident mode sounds great; if the cam tilts more than 30 degrees for more than 5 seconds, it kicks into incident mode, where it records for one more hour then shuts off. With the included 8GB card that means it should have at least an hour (probably 2 or 3) before the incident and an hour after. Also if it doesn't move for 15 minutes, it assumes you forgot to turn it off and it shuts itself off.

The light is OK though nothing to write home about. A little better than a Cygolite Hotshot, not as good as the Pulse60 (I do an utterly unfair comparison to the DS500 in my video which was, at first, intended to just be funny but having watched the video, I think it is informative.
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