Originally Posted by ItsJustMe

The reason I returned my VIRB is that Garmin does not understand why we want loop recording.

They think "5 minute" or "30 minute" loop recording means to record 30 minutes, then erase that file and start a new 30 minute recording. This is the worst thing they could do. What they're supposed to do is to record 30 minute clips until the card fills up, then erase the oldest files on the card to keep recording. This is how literally every single other camera on the planet does things.

They way they do it, you're almost guaranteed to lose your evidence in a crash unless you can go turn the camera off immediately.

They clearly have built this to be a sport camera for taking "rad" youtube videos, not as an evidence camera.

For rear cameras, the ONLY cam that I have found that is actually well thought out as a bike camera is the Fly6. It records for 6 hours on battery, does proper loop recording, and if it goes over I think 15 degrees from upright for more than 5 seconds, it assumes it has been in an accident and goes into "incident" mode - it records for one more hour then shuts off, so that it gets the aftermath of the incident and stops before there's a chance of overwriting the incident itself. Also it shuts itself off it it doesn't move for 15 minutes.