Gopro Motorsports HERO WIDE 5 Megapixel 170 Degree Lens Camera (Silver) Review

This thing is the bomb. Using the tall mount on top of my helmet, you can just see my hands on the handlebars. It's as close to being there as it gets, the wide angle view looks goofy in a still, but is just how you see it when you are in motion. My wife (non-rider) saw the video the first time and was all excited. She's seen helmetcam video for a year from my Oregon Scientific helmetcam, but it's a 52 Field of view, compared to the 170 field of view from the GoPro. She says this one is amazing, and that she didn't 'get' what was exciting about riding MX from the other cam.
It's a quality unit, light enough you don't know it's there. New cases are about $40, so if you biff and shred it, easy fix. You will have to get 1000ma NiMh batteries, battery life is crap with regular duracells. I got by with a new set of batteries each day, but the NiMh give adequate life. The mount isn't direction sensitive, so you can stick the camera in backwards without any modifications if you like. Get the Motorsports version, it's got your helmet covered and has all kinds of cool other mounting options in the box. 8^)
To see what the vid looks like, go to the GoPro site and check out the example video from Loretta Lynn's Am. Nats. Excellent!



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