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Where did you get your cameras? Would you recommend them to a fellow cyclist?

by afc 5y ago

Lio 5y ago
I use https://cycliq.com/ https://cycliq.com/ I think I would recommend them but they're definitely not perfect. I have had some (rare) reliability issues and I really wish they had removable 18650 batteries for long night rides. The radar is a https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/698001 https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/698001 which is useful to let you see and know the speed of cars approaching from behind. These are great. Simple bit of kit that works well.
- thematrixturtle 5y ago
  Cycliq looks amazing, but buying both a front and rear cam/light would cost more than my bike! Any clones or alternatives out there?
  - tokai 5y ago
    Upgrading your bike seems like the most obvious move ;)
  - joeblubaugh 5y ago
    Not really :-/. I suppose you could rig a cheap dash cam with a battery, but you lose out on the headlight, which I use all the time.
  - petre 5y ago
    > Any clones or alternatives out there? Cheap chinese action cams without integrated tail light.
  - ndsipa_pomu 5y ago
    There's some cheaper ones around but with varying quality. I use Cycliq front and back and they're not perfect (the app is rubbish and it's surprisingly difficult to get both cams showing the same time), but they're currently the best for ease of use (e.g. overwriting old recordings automatically on the microSD card).
    - Lio 5y ago
      Yeah they're pretty good on balance. I've not seen anything else that gets the core features so right. The only thing that really drives me nuts about them is that they have a tendency to come out of Airplane mode by themselves. Bluetooth gradually drains them flat if I don't keep them constantly plugged in. Since I've never really got the Ant+ networking to work reliably either I could probably do without any wireless features. Oh and I got mine on sale for about half what they normally go for ...and put the savings towards another bike obvs. (n+1) (s-1), etc :D
  - acomjean 5y ago
    For a while a long time ago I used the monoprice action cam (discontinued). It looked like a bike light, didn’t have stabilization but had an easy to use big switch on the top. Worked well enough but along with my bike light it was another thing to charge and I didn’t have time to go through all my footage. Recently I’ve attached my go pro and it being much newer is better and digital stabilization but the battery life isn’t great. So I usually ride without. But I have a cell phone in my pocket..

Where did you get your cameras? Would you recommend them to a fellow cyclist?

by afc 5y ago

Where did you get your cameras? Would you recommend them to a fellow cyclist?

Lio 5y ago

I use https://cycliq.com/ https://cycliq.com/ I think I would recommend them but they're definitely not perfect. I have had some (rare) reliability issues and I really wish they had removable 18650 batteries for long night rides. The radar is a https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/698001 https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/698001 which is useful to let you see and know the speed of cars approaching from behind. These are great. Simple bit of kit that works well.

thematrixturtle 5y ago
Cycliq looks amazing, but buying both a front and rear cam/light would cost more than my bike! Any clones or alternatives out there?
- tokai 5y ago
  Upgrading your bike seems like the most obvious move ;)
- joeblubaugh 5y ago
  Not really :-/. I suppose you could rig a cheap dash cam with a battery, but you lose out on the headlight, which I use all the time.
- petre 5y ago
  > Any clones or alternatives out there? Cheap chinese action cams without integrated tail light.
- ndsipa_pomu 5y ago
  There's some cheaper ones around but with varying quality. I use Cycliq front and back and they're not perfect (the app is rubbish and it's surprisingly difficult to get both cams showing the same time), but they're currently the best for ease of use (e.g. overwriting old recordings automatically on the microSD card).
  - Lio 5y ago
    Yeah they're pretty good on balance. I've not seen anything else that gets the core features so right. The only thing that really drives me nuts about them is that they have a tendency to come out of Airplane mode by themselves. Bluetooth gradually drains them flat if I don't keep them constantly plugged in. Since I've never really got the Ant+ networking to work reliably either I could probably do without any wireless features. Oh and I got mine on sale for about half what they normally go for ...and put the savings towards another bike obvs. (n+1) (s-1), etc :D
- acomjean 5y ago
  For a while a long time ago I used the monoprice action cam (discontinued). It looked like a bike light, didn’t have stabilization but had an easy to use big switch on the top. Worked well enough but along with my bike light it was another thing to charge and I didn’t have time to go through all my footage. Recently I’ve attached my go pro and it being much newer is better and digital stabilization but the battery life isn’t great. So I usually ride without. But I have a cell phone in my pocket..