Looks like they’re at ~25% after two days with a month to go, so I hope this one makes it. Riding around central South Carolina with no shoulders, I was sold instantly. Just can’t decide if it’s better to face it forward or aft …
Just can’t decide if it’s better to face it forward or aft …
You could buy two and do both.
If these work out I would buy two. One to face forward and one to face backwards. That way if there is an issue you would see the who story and not just half. Of course the issue could arise from the left or right … but at some point it would be ridiculous to address all possibilities.
I do like the simplicity of use. Just on & off. I also like the idea that the battery would last a month. It has potential. I have a Go Pro but I don’t see it fit this niche.
Awesome. I was waiting for someone to bring out a decent bike camera with suitable battery life and recording capacity. Looks like this might finally fit the bill.
Great idea. Needs to be lighter, more capacity and have an event button so you can press charges against road ragers. I have had a couple people intentionally buzz me and try to run me off the road.
Radar for relative speed detection would be bomb. Hey, tech is cheap these days, why not build the ultimate device? Local municipalities would love it if they could issue traffic fines with them (to road ragers) and I do not see why they could not.
Great idea. Needs to be lighter, more capacity and have an event button so you can press charges against road ragers. I have had a couple people intentionally buzz me and try to run me off the road.
Radar for relative speed detection would be bomb. Hey, tech is cheap these days, why not build the ultimate device? Local municipalities would love it if they could issue traffic fines with them (to road ragers) and I do not see why they could not.
I had the same question and sent them an email. You can press the button to save things like people buzzing you.
That’s awesome. I was very close to trying to design/build one of these with some friends in the semiconductor business, but just too much going on. Glad someone else has done it. I’d ride with two full time - one front and one rear. Will share this for sure…
This is a great concept and I love that people are working hard to come up with creative solutions to making riding safer. It does kind of annoy me that to go from 4G of internal storage to 32G is a $110 upgrade to the “special edition” model (though that does include a water bottle and a t-shirt) when one can purchase a class 10 64G microSD card for less than $50 retail. If one had the option to swap out cards themselves this would be a non-issue; but obviously it would make it more difficult to waterproof the device as well as make it robust enough to handle a ham-fisted end user’s attempts to trade cards…
I suppose if it were treated purely as a black box to only be accessed in case of an accident then 4G of storage is plenty - but once installed, people are going to want to use them as much as possible.
Still, a neat concept nonetheless. A current availability less than $250 gets you front & rear coverage that would encompass the vast majority of accident cases, and sufficient data recording to be able to piece together what happened.
If you’re only using it for training, neither weight nor aerodynamics will make your training more effective.
^This. I’ve never understood the desire to be as slick and fast as possible when training for racing. Your time or speed in a training session is completely irrelevant, only the effect it has on your race performance matters and I strongly believe there is a significant advantage (mentally and physically) to training on a brick and racing slick.
But to the point, this camera is awesome. Cyclists regularly are victims of criminal recklessness by motorists and this could go a long way to fixing the problem; a couple of news stories about jerks getting charged criminally and people will think twice before buzzing the next guy.
definitely something I’m interested in but how is this different from a Go Pro? Or, is this something a Go Pro doesn’t do?
The model GoPro I have has a battery life of about 2 hours on a good day, also it doesn’t loop 4 hours worth of HD video, and is more than $150 .
This is a great idea, hope it flies. I’d get 2
definitely something I’m interested in but how is this different from a Go Pro? Or, is this something a Go Pro doesn’t do?
GoPro doesn’t loop over storage to make sure you have the latest video data; it doesn’t have nearly the battery life; and it doesn’t have the accelerometer to shut off in case of a crash. Of course, the accelerometer is only really necessary because of the looping and the battery life. If you crashed with your GoPro, the battery would die before long and the camera wouldn’t overwrite anything, so you’d have a record of what happened. But it’d be way more cumbersome to remember to charge it every day (and still you’d be SOL for really long rides), format the card regularly to make sure you didn’t run out of storage, etc.
The GoPro is designed as a camera. This is designed as a crash recorder that may also be used as a camera.
I’m scheduled to talk to Cedric - the designer/creator - tomorrow. He lives in LA, so we’re pretty close. I’m hoping I can help him get this built and then improve on the design.
But in the short term, it fills a pretty clear niche. He does need a seatpost (or saddle rail) mount to make an effective rear-facing camera, but that’s trivial.
As Khai said, for <$250, you can cover your front and back with something explicitly designed to keep a video record of what happens if the shit gets brown… That’s awesome.
Wow that person doing the sample video is a pretty crazy rider. If he got in an accident the police would just use the Rideye video to write him a ticket.
Hey ST’ers. I’m Cedric and I created Rideye. I’m here to answer any questions you might have. Jordan did a great job covering most of them, esp. the comparison between this and a GoPro.
About the risky riding in the sample footage video. That was me. My normal commute is 12 miles each way on a bike path. I’m about the safest cyclist you’ll meet. But unfortunately that would make for a very boring sample reel. For what it’s worth, I don’t endorse that style of riding. But it’s just like GoPro using wingsuit footage in their ads. It’s a deadly sport and most of their customers will never use their product that way. But it shows what it’s capable of. For the record, I don’t believe anything in that video is illegal.
