I have a contour hd pro which i use as a helmet cam and never leave my house without it. I ride exactly the same as i did before I have it, but now I find I enjoy sitting down and re-living my ride out by watching the footage. The other day I went past 2 seperate police speed traps, so when I got home it was funny to show my mates them etc.
I've got one but use it less and less now. Had it about a year and it was ace fun just playing with it, but that's all it ever was. I probably ride slower and more carefully with it on the bike as I know fine it's going to show anything that I do at a later stage. I used it on track on Friday night and found watching the footage back was very useful. It was my first time doing the reverse direction at Knockhill (having done 20+ the "right" way round) and looking over the video later really helped me see what I was doing wrong and where I could try and sort it out. I didn't remember half of what I did on track so seeing it again and being able to watch it a couple of times was really useful. I've only got a couple of road videos worth watching, most are just boring and none show anything "exciting" or dodgy. At best they show a small amount of some interesting roads but so much of the drama of any scenery etc. is lost in the video that filming for that purpose is pretty much useless. Yes, you get to see the road but having tried to film some of Scotland's scenic stuff it just doesn't seem to translate onto the camera in anything like the detail that would get the message across. Where using the camera is concerned, I've been swithering between two options recently 1) Get a better GoPro and use it more or 2) Sell it and forget it. What I'll probably do is just keep it for trackdays and non-bike stuff, moutain biking and things like that. Stuff where I can't get into too much (legal) trouble. But given that I only use it on the road occasionally I think I've already found the balance of when and how to use it. If I do have the camera on the bike, I feel like it has a massive beacon flashing on it shouting "PULL ME OVER MR POLICEMAN!" so that in itself discourages me from using it on the road much. I've been thinking for quite a while about pulling most of my road videos already so I think that's what I'll do as if nothing else, there's no real need to have them on there... Eh, to answer the original question - I do ride a little differently if I have the camera on, but it's definitely slower and I make a lot more mistakes on the road as I know the camera is there. On track on Friday I totally forgot I had it on the bike so I rode just as I would always do on track. I reckon I'm going to be very careful about using it on the road though as I have already been mulling this over. It helped me when I was doing training recently though and my trainer used a Drift to show me what I was doing, which was a brilliant tool for both of us. When it comes to hooligan stuff on the road and posting it online, I'm not thinking that's a great idea at all and deliberately don't film anything like that. I don't like the busybody filming idea either, but that seems to be more and more common. I reckon being filmed by someone else and reported is the thing to worry about more than what you film yourself as it's not as much in your control. Andy
I cannot see what basis you could have for saying that. If a police officer is investigating a suspected offence, and is in a public street gathering evidence relevant to the offence, are you saying the policeman "cannot force" the owner of such evidence to hand it over? So what other evidence do you say this notion applies to? Phones? Knives? Bloodied garments? How could the police ever investigate anything, or ever gather any evidence if this were correct?
Ive toyed with getting one but the application of fate sways me from doing so. Knowing my luck id crash while trying to ride a bit more "Spirited" if you will. The lad in the first visit is asking for it IMO (primarily cos he was stupid enough to leave his name on there). I think the word stupid is justified on a number of different levels for this lad. 1. Leaves his name on the vid 2. Breaks the double white line. 3. Has a fair turn of speed on and theres a lot of risks around him...lots of cyclists, narrow roads, etc etc I think if youre going to get extensive with the throttle do it with no one else around...then the only risk is to yourself. Having said that - I think we're all guilty of doing stuff and not thinking about it (or thinking about it after you've done it). I know in the past ive done stuff and thought "fuck, I was lucky to get away with that." So, id rather not have it on video.
I think the more important question should be this: Does the existence of The Jeremy Kyle TV show encourage the people that watch it to behave in a similar manner? Further more, does broadcasting of particular behaviours through the Jeremy Kyle show make it increasingly socially acceptable among younger generations to be a complete c***?
There has always been a proportion of people whose social behaviour has consisted of lying, cheating, stealing, shouting and fighting - and there still is. This was not socially acceptable before and it still isn't. The difference Jeremy Kyle has made is to drag this behaviour out into the open and expose it to view. Watching vile people behaving disgracefully is rather like watching animals in a zoo, or lunatics in an asylum, and it is the people who do the watching who ought to know better.
