Originally Posted by Team Sarcasm (Post 17355140)

And a rear facing camera that stops recording when you are stopped...it would be very sad if someone rear ended you at a stop sign or stop light and you have your camera set to be off. Or if you have an accident and the camera only catches the accident and none of the post accident conversation/events because your bike stopped moving. Just saying :)

Originally Posted by chaadster (Post 17358685)

True, but don't forget there are other reasons someone may run a rear mount camera other than to sit around waiting for an event which is extremely unlikely to ever happen.

I've seen some awfully cool ride and race videos with both front and rear cam views; having sync'd auto-pause would be great for matching up files. Same if you wanted to make a trainer video of an actual ride with time appropriate power targets.

Originally Posted by Gus90 (Post 17359424)

I picked up that Virb at around $100 on Amazon as well, too good to pass up. Don't think the additional features on the elite are worth it at all. I'm just waiting on my dual mount from k-edge to put it on my bike. As for a rear facing mount, k-edge makes one that attaches to your seat rails that seems like it would be a great option. If you ride with a saddle bag, you'd have to ditch it though. I haven't seen anything that mounts to your seat post, that would be a great solution depending on the shape of your post.

Originally Posted by Team Sarcasm (Post 17359665)

I think it would be awesome to have a rear camera snap pictures every 3 seconds during a marathon or race or have it recording slow motion or make a training vid or something. The point of a camera is to record, both the good and the bad. Yes accidents are the big IF, but IF someone rear ends you while you're stopped and takes off/claims it was not their fault, you will feel VERY foolish because it is far too easy to cover that base since you are already 90% of the way there.

And making videos takes a long time as it is. Saving 20-30 minutes is not worth it, to me at least. But that is all I am going to beat this dead horse.





Want to send me a PM on how you like the combo mount? I decided on the barfly mount. It works great flipped up like they have it advertised :p but flipped upside down it gets tangled in the cables. It is not very bad, just enough to slightly push the camera up at the gopro adapter joint. I have not ridden with it but I do think a few bumps may move the camera away from where you actually want it.

After looking at the pictures of the combo mount I think the mount, more or less, places the virb in the same spot and you may be hitting your cables if you have external routing on your handlebars (I have 5700 w/normal external routing bars)

Originally Posted by spdntrxi (Post 17360421)

even by using standby.. battery life is not that long on a virb (sub 3hours) For the rear I use a Fly6.. rideye ordered as part of the kickstarted campaign (been awhile). I only use the Virb (elite) when I want to record for making a video afterwords. So I will continue to use the Fly6 for the rear and Rideye for the front when it comes in...as the normal everyday setup.

Originally Posted by Gus90 (Post 17360518)

Those are very nice options and compact as well. Thanks for pointing them out. I may get that rear light eventually.

Originally Posted by spdntrxi (Post 17360546)

my fly6 is the kickstarter version... so it's a little larger then the one they sell now.. Sometimes I wish I waited. The newer fly6 has more lumens too, but @ 249 not worth upgrading.

Originally Posted by Gus90 (Post 17360604)

I picked up a few things from kickstarter for my bikes as well. That spurcycle bell for my hybrid and a front and rear set of the sparse spacer lights that I put on my single speed/fixed gear bike. Some great finds on there for sure.

Originally Posted by Gus90 (Post 17360023)

I don't have the mount yet, should be delivered Friday. My cables are routed under the bar tape...

Originally Posted by Gus90 (Post 17426503)

I can also confirm that the virb does not stop recording when you come to a stop (ie at an intersection). I think someone earlier suggested it does. Maybe an update occurred that fixed if it did before.