Motorcycle dash cam quest

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Just wanted to start this thread to share with you the experimenting I’ll be doing with motorcycle dashcams. I know a lot of people feel that a dashcam is a bad idea and could backfire on them, if they were out riding and got hurt or hurt someone while doing something stupid on their bikes and the cops somehow got ahold of the footage. In my case, I have to confess that I ride like a granny. I have my busa, the concours14 and a mustang gt, yet as I type this, I realize I can’t even remember when was last time I hit tripe digits. As I see my little town’s population grow by the thousands every year, I grow more concern about how bad traffic is starting to get and the idiots on their cell phones behind the wheel. I bought a GPS with a built in dashcam to run on the mustang, because I know if and idiot hits me, it might be a situation where it’ll be my word against theirs and the cop will most likely believe the soccer mom on the minivan, than the millennial on a “tricked out” mustang. I have the same feel about my bikes, so I have been doing research and decided to order some different setups to try. I’m starting with a MotoPro cam dual camera system that I purchased on amazon for $189 shipped to my door. The first kit arrived and I wasn’t too impressed by the packaging. When I opened the box, there was a lot of extra random mounts and upon a quick parts inventory check, found that one of the small cameras was missing. A quick call to amazon and they sent me a replacement and also emailed me a label to return the incomplete kit back.
 
The second kit arrived and I was happy to open the box and see that all was there, or so I think, as there is no paperwork indicating what is supposed to come in the box. Here are some quick pictures of what I’ll be working with.

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initial thoughts:
The parts seem to be of decent quality.
- The display has 5 buttons that have a good feel to them, even with gloves on.
- The system has a “lock” button that can be installed on your handlebar area and if you press it, it’ll save and secured a section of video file so that It can’t be overwritten by the loop recording feature.
- the camera’s are 1080p at 30fps and wires seem to be long enough to run through the bike, but I guess it depends where you decide to mount the display.
- talking about display, the system comes with a sleeve to use to protect it, because it’s not waterproof. This was a pretty dumb design, if I may say so myself. I guess the system is made for fair weather riders with a garage.
- it has a built in “crash sensor” with three levels of sensitivity.
- system has WiFi, loop recording and sound recording via a mic on the “lock” button mentioned earlier.
- the system uses what seem to be a generic dashcam viewing app called LuckyCam to connect your phone to the cameras to access video files and adjust settings if needed, even though, setting changes can be done via the buttons on the display.
- instructions are none existent. There is a small booklet with some pictures and a very poor translation to English of the system’s specs. I’m currently watching the videos that the seller has on youtube to familiarize myself with it, but to be fair, is super simple to use and there is not too bad of a learning curve.

Ok, that’s it for now. I’m waiting on a memory card (not included in the kit) to test everything and then will be installing this on my concours14 to test. I’m working with the rep from another company that sells a different, but similar dual camera kit to get one of theirs to test on the busa, so I’ll keep updating this thread. I also have a dual camera kit that I purchased to try on my commuter and could give you guys a quick review on that one if you are interested, once I install it.
 
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I'm interested to see what you think after it's installed and you use it for a while. I've been thinking about getting something like this to play with. Bike or Car. But reviews are not that good. And with the reviews you never know if there's a problem with the product or it's operator trouble...
 
I have an "all Escort" system in my car with their Escort IX radar detector and their M1 dash cam all on the same suction cup mount. I almost never look at it but the camera does take good video. I can mount the detector straight to the magnetic RAM mount on the bike, but the camera won't mount like that, and it's not waterproof. A weather proof version of this setup on the bike would be awesome!
 
Yes way cool there are sooo many of these listed on Amazon & they all start to sound the same.
 
I'm the same as you. I have the fast bike now but I'm very conservative in my riding. I've seen situations where a dash cam would be very useful and has been useful for others. I'm sure one could always turn off the system if one felt like doing things that were a bit more spirited.
 
I would want/need a dash camera that could easily be edited. So that the footage of the idiot who caused you to wreck is visible...but not anything previous and unrelated, where your speed may have been a little above the limit.
A cell phone will always rat you out too.
I know my friends have their phones when we go riding, so I know I don't need mine.
 
For me I refuse to buy anything that isn't waterproof. If you are touring, you will get caught in the rain, especially the way the weather is rolling these days. That was a good thing about having a power block - I could just power everything down. Most electronics a fine getting wet as long as there is no power. I don't get why these cams are not waterproof (not many are). I wanted to mainly use mine as a rear view cam, the crash evidence part is extra. This one looks nicer than the junk I've tried though.
 
sixpack577 said:
I would want/need a dash camera that could easily be edited. So that the footage of the idiot who caused you to wreck is visible...but not anything previous and unrelated, where your speed may have been a little above the limit.
A cell phone will always rat you out too.
I know my friends have their phones when we go riding, so I know I don't need mine.
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Wouldn't you need a bike first???? ooooh...:banana:
 
My 128gb memory card arrived and I put it in and formatted it through the controls on the display, as recommended. Spent over an hour deciding where to mount the cameras and ran the wiring. Still need to hook up switched power to the unit, but hooked it up to my battery tender lead so I could align the cameras and go through the settings. The app also works pretty good. I’ll be working crazy hours again, so it might take me a bit to finish the installation and do a test run, but here are some more pictures.

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Took me awhile, but here is a quick short clip of the front and rear video of the topdawg MotoPro cam. Pretty good quality, but I have to play with the mics sensitivity/volume to see if I can adjust it.


 
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