I had a small crash today, just some scrapes and bruises. I almost lost my bottom teeth as I collided with a metal bar on a fence ... on a bridge. Just got a bone bruise on my finger and elbow and some chunks missing. I should be ok.
I was about to get onto a bridge that had a bike lane and I looked up and saw these two people in the walking lane coming the other way, thought ok. Then I put my head down for a second to pump and as I looked up this tall dude was wandering hither and tither across the bike lane and walking lane, in addition to the chick being on the right in the vicinity. It was too late to stop and I had to avoid him, but as I picked a direction he abruptly walked right into me and it was a bad crash for me. It is a two way marked bike lane that he just walked into, while on his cell phone.
I had Cycliq front and rear cams going, but there is a 45 minute gap prior to that incident. The batteries were fully charged. Both the front and rear cams stopped recording. I saw the front one was off after the crash and turned it back on if I needed any audio evidence or anything. All that is on the card is footage of me starting the ride and when I turned it back on after the crash.
Has anyone had this happen to them? I've been putting a lot of city miles on my bike recently and felt I needed the cameras to support any claim if I got hit. I put about 50miles in my city downtown yesterday (62 mi total for day) and am statistically likely to get hit every now and then. I would just hate it and be pissed that I threw down $500 bucks for this device that seems to work very well when I'm just riding around, but not so much when it counts.
Was this device crash impact rated? Can it not absorb hard hits? How can this be possible for a device like this?
https://www.strava.com/...tes/zachary_mckinney
I was about to get onto a bridge that had a bike lane and I looked up and saw these two people in the walking lane coming the other way, thought ok. Then I put my head down for a second to pump and as I looked up this tall dude was wandering hither and tither across the bike lane and walking lane, in addition to the chick being on the right in the vicinity. It was too late to stop and I had to avoid him, but as I picked a direction he abruptly walked right into me and it was a bad crash for me. It is a two way marked bike lane that he just walked into, while on his cell phone.
I had Cycliq front and rear cams going, but there is a 45 minute gap prior to that incident. The batteries were fully charged. Both the front and rear cams stopped recording. I saw the front one was off after the crash and turned it back on if I needed any audio evidence or anything. All that is on the card is footage of me starting the ride and when I turned it back on after the crash.
Has anyone had this happen to them? I've been putting a lot of city miles on my bike recently and felt I needed the cameras to support any claim if I got hit. I put about 50miles in my city downtown yesterday (62 mi total for day) and am statistically likely to get hit every now and then. I would just hate it and be pissed that I threw down $500 bucks for this device that seems to work very well when I'm just riding around, but not so much when it counts.
Was this device crash impact rated? Can it not absorb hard hits? How can this be possible for a device like this?
https://www.strava.com/...tes/zachary_mckinney