Or maybe not.....

I've been riding around with cameras (GoPros and clones) on my bike(s) for about six years and have never had a mount (OEM or otherwise) break....until earlier this morning.

Was out for a ride and had my Hero4 Session up and running. Had just come up a bike trail overpass and was starting down the other side. Where the bridge portion of the path met the rest of the path, there was a small bump/gap, or at least I considered it small, but the camera mount must have thought it was a gap as big as the Grand Canyon. I hit the bump doing probably 8mph or less, but as I hit it, my Session goes flying off my handlebars, bounced a few times on the path and then came to rest in the grass/weeds alongside the path. It was a clean break, and I was both pissed that it broke and concerned about the condition of the camera. As far as I could see, there was no physical damage to it, but wouldn't know of any internal damage until I got home.

Well, when I got home and popped the SDcard into my computer, I found that the fall must have corrupted a few of the files on the card, including the file that had the camera coming off the handlebars. I was really hoping for a cool video of the camera taking flight, but that's not going to happen. I did put the card back in the camera to see if it would record okay, which it didn't do, at least until I reformatted the card, then it recorded okay. Since the Session is the only camera I have at the moment, I breathed a big sigh of relief that it wasn't damaged in the fall.

Looks like I'm going to be checking out some of those better mounts that people provided links for earlier on in this thread. I have a crapload more of plastic mounts, but it's time I get something that won't break the next time I hit a bump or two.

Here's a (not so good) pick of the broken mount. The casing is larger than the regular Session case because I was using my EcstaPro extended battery with the camera....