Twice in one week sounds like it's time for the action cam. Start reporting them to the police and take the *******s off the road one at a time. Sooner or later motorists will hear the stories and give you a wide berth.

Not really that worried...but if it's my word against someone else's, it is sure nice to have proof.

We have a 3' bicycle clearance law (yeah, right!), and it's nice to have video to back up your claims...in the event something happens.

I have sent copies of video to the Corporate offices of a few trucking companies showing how their drivers are behaving. The folks in charge of corporate litigation will usually jump right on it.

Most law enforcement folks seem to take it seriously, too....helps with the dog chases,too.

However, I have it on my handlebars, and usually forget it's even there...

DPN

Which camera do you use? I am thinking of a lightweight one for cycling, but not for this reason.

What part of the country are you in?

+1

Tons of road mileage here, as well, riding some fairly tough roads around Baltimore. You have control the things that you can. You have to communicate, be predictable, and much of the time, assertive.

Arkansas

DPN

Oregon Scientific...very cheap, and not the best, but good enough for what I want...uses AA batteries and SD cards...



DPN

Cool. Just what I was looking for. Catching bad motorists might be a helpful side effect as well.

First of all, use a MIRROR. I ride roads where there are no shoulders--- and swear by one.

I have found road rage to NOT be taken seriously at all when reported by a cyclist and where there were no injuries. I was repeatedly harrassed by the same motorist on my commute (same route, same time, same location) and ended up posting his plates on craigslist to get has address. I never had trouble after I knew his name, where he lived, etc.... cops would not do anything.

I have one of these.

Don't try to use it with your helmet. If you are paying attention to traffic, your head is on a swivel making for some rather fast panning video, enough to get viewers motion-sick when reviewing it on the TV or PC.

I mounted mine next to the headstock, because there's less motion there, even when compared to a handlebar mount.

The audio is crappy on it, but at least you can use it in bad weather, which is probably why the audio is bad--waterproof down to 3 meters.

Thanks for all the replies. I got in touch with the local sherriff's department, and they said the best thing to do was to meet with one of their deputies tomorrow.

I'll think about using a camera. Seems like it'd be a cool toy to have anyway.

Put it in perspective. The risk of n dying from being run over from behind while riding a bike, while not deminimis is very low.

Less than 1000 cyclists a year die in car crashes. The significant majority of those are kids darting into traffic, or drunks riding the wrong way after dark without lights.

Very few law abiding cyclists are killed, and of that group an even smaller percentage are run over from behind.

Thus if you are a competent, law abiding cyclist, exercising some common sense in route selection, and riding technique, your risk is very low. Not deminimis, but lower than the risk of keeping your ass planted on the sofa.

So HTFU, and learn to assess risk on more than anecdotal experience.

+1 on the mirror. I don't know why everyone is so anti mirror. They are small and light. And when I hear a car coming up behind me I can glance with my eyes only to see what they are doing. I can easily track their movements and if necessary make an emergency move at the last safe possible moment.

-D

Unless the driver is drunk as we saw just last week with that massacre in Mexico.