I don’t have a helmet camera but I do have a small mount on my left handlebar to which I affix a nice little Sony pocket rocket camera.
I get 20 megapixel HD vids of my my favorite rides.
Ironically, I also have a video of a ride in PA, which clearly shows an old man driving a van, sitting at an intersection.
In it, you can clearly see him look right at me and then pull out anyway.
Then you can see the side of the van as it comes perilously close, and the oncoming traffic I was forced into to avoid being flattened by him.
[all of this mind you, with Alice Cooper singing “Hard Hearted Alice” in the background, on my stereo]
Then the video shows me ditching the bike in the parking lot where the old man stopped and from then on, all you hear is the audio of me, screaming, cussing and kicking the side of his van, trying to get him to come out and play.
Yes, I was pissed.
He just sat there, hands gripping the steering wheel, refusing to even look at me and then he sent a tiny little old lady out to “apologize”.
Well that wrecked everything.
She was not only itty bitty and ancient, she was not the one who needed punched.
I was done.
Not gonna take it out on her.
I hope they took away his driving privileges, after that, at least.
Man, it was surrealistic.
My death could’ve had a pretty decent soundtrack.
The funny part is that it shows hubby, standing off at a distance, looking freaked.
Even he wouldn’t come near me, at that point.
:D
Yup, sounds about right for a certain kind elderly Boomer guy.
By the way, there’s a different and more effective way to deal with idiots like them. Call the cops on your Bluetooth headset (which I also have mounted in the helmet) and report a potentially drunk or drugged driver that just almost hit you and ran you into oncoming traffic. Cops usually show up pretty quick for that and they get to spend 15-30 minutes or more talking to Officer Unfriendly. It’s not even a lie - they’re driving erratically, for all you know they *are* drunk - and in my personal experience it’s not unusual to find that they *are*, and then you get to watch them get a free ride to jail (if you stuck around to watch.)