STeaveA wrote:
Looking for a front and possibly rear camera for my bike with long enough battery/record time for a 6+ hour ride.
Does this exist in a simple, not crazy expensive package?
Answer: No.
Honestly it doesn't Even the Cycliq doesn't really do what you want, it loops around in really short clips intended to store a crash or incident as opposed to recording a full ride. Note that in reality you woudln't want to do that as no-one would ever want to watch a 6 hour ride....
What I did do for up to 4 hours was use a gopro, with a 3rd party (Wasabi) piggyback battery that was set to take a time lapse image every 10 seconds. When stitched into a video at 30fps then it turns the ride into under a 1minute video. Gave enough of a flavour of the ride and I also got the stills of pretty much any incidents.
But was still 'dicking about' as the backpack added to the size and weight of the gopro, and stopped the use of the factory cage which then meant you needed to unscrew it to be able to charge/download.
So this is the same as the 'tiny still camera for when running'. 20+ years ago a colleague had a 480pixel digital camera that was the size and thickness of a credit card. Was early days of digital cameras and I thought this was witchcraft. But all these years later there's still not a 'clip' style camera that I could use to just grap a snap of a sunrise, etc for a strava post. And mobile phones have grown in size/weight from the days of the Motorola startac so despite having cameras embedded means I don't bother at all.
/ranty old man