Go pro or equivalent

Cougar-V6

Cougar-V6

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So with me due on track in a few weeks time, I was wondering does any have a go pro or equivalent external fixing video device that I could borrow for half hour to record my track session at Castle Combe?

Or if anyone knows of any good but not going to bankrupt me camera/video to mount externally?

John
 
Cougar-V6 said:
So with me due on track in a few weeks time, I was wondering does any have a go pro or equivalent external fixing video device that I could borrow for half hour to record my track session at Castle Combe?

Or if anyone knows of any good but not going to bankrupt me camera/video to mount externally?

John
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Get a dashcam, John. Seriously.

The reasons for this are:

1) Combe can be a bit funny about what's mounted in the cabin, for good reason. Suction-cup-mounted stuff can become a missile in a crash. Many dashcams are attached with a 3M sticky pad on a bracket and so will pass muster.

2) You will never, ever regret having a dashcam on your daily drive.

I have no idea what your budget is, but you can buy one for £50. If you're tracking your daily, I assume you can afford that. If you want 1080p/full HD, you'll pay closer to £90. Still not breaking the bank.
 
I have recently bought a dashcam from Halfrauds, got the Transend DrivePro 200. It's got 1080P full HD recording and I got this for under £80. This dashcam is mounted using a 3M sticky pad, so would be ideal for Combe if you got yourself one. The only issue is it's not wireless, so has to be plugged into your cigarette lighter/12v all of the time, although you can buy an adaptor to hard wire it into your fusebox.

Halfraud are now advertising a new dashcam which is wireless and is magnetically connected to the screen mount, which is again stuck on via a 3M sticky pad. Have a look at their site.
 
Mako said:
Get a dashcam, John. Seriously.

The reasons for this are:

1) Combe can be a bit funny about what's mounted in the cabin, for good reason. Suction-cup-mounted stuff can become a missile in a crash. Many dashcams are attached with a 3M sticky pad on a bracket and so will pass muster.

2) You will never, ever regret having a dashcam on your daily drive.

I have no idea what your budget is, but you can buy one for £50. If you're tracking your daily, I assume you can afford that. If you want 1080p/full HD, you'll pay closer to £90. Still not breaking the bank.
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3) Errant coach drivers:devilish:
 
I've a spare Transcend one I had in the old Cougar. You'll need to supply your own MicroSD card as I haven't got a spare one of those any more.
I was going to fit it in the van (the amount of people that don't see a large white fridge shifting down the road is staggering, as is the speed with which they GTFO when I cook their retinas with a quick Transit flash) but I can hold off and loan it to you for your session at Combe if you want, you keep your SD card with videos etc, and I'll bugger off home with the dash cam and fit it to the van later.

All you'd need then would be a class 10 Micro SD (with adaptor unless you already have one)
Oh, and you'll need a double sided sticky pad to use to attach it unless you want to wedge it in the headrest of the passenger seat and get steering/gear usage in the video at the cost of track visibility.

I've got some old videos (taken in the Cougar) from it somewhere but can't find them now.
The quality is alright at night, and pretty good in the day.
 
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