Gambit Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 You should try a days driving in London. Cyclist are insane. Jump red lights use the footpath when it suits them and I've seen and experienced them knocking wing mirrors only to ride off like nothing happened. Then you get the ones who think it's great to ride 3 wide or completely ignore their own special cycle lane. They also seem to like sneaking up on you at a set of lights stop in front and when the lights go green they take an age to get going again. Maybe I should just put this in the rant thread [emoji38] Yep get that up here too. The not using the designated lanes provided really winds me up. I had this woman pull out on me today...I was trundling up the road within the 30mph limit and going up hill...ABS kicked in before I swerved as she darted out right before me. She had her hands across her face as I missed the front of her car and went past Play movie The irony of the song playing :D 1
JusNoGood Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Lucky for you you only get a few bars of me singing too..could have been a lot worse/longer
Dogconker Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 You should try a days driving in London. Cyclist are insane. Jump red lights use the footpath when it suits them and I've seen and experienced them knocking wing mirrors only to ride off like nothing happened. Then you get the ones who think it's great to ride 3 wide or completely ignore their own special cycle lane. They also seem to like sneaking up on you at a set of lights stop in front and when the lights go green they take an age to get going again. Maybe I should just put this in the rant thread [emoji38] We get that here too, but we get peletons round here when the local cycle clubs start, you can have about 50 inconsiderate cyclists that you just can't get past. At least in London you know they're going to try and kill themselves Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk
majik_thighs Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 I was just nipping to my sons house, he lives in the next town and just as I was going up the drive this !Removed! idiot ran in front of me. Take a look and see where he came from, he`s hidden behind a sign on the other side of the road......I have my eyes on the pedestrians left and right and my foot was just about to go down on the loud pedal to mount the driveway. http://youtu.be/7rRweNGi9eA 2
Dogconker Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 People forget how squishy they are until it's too late. Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk
majik_thighs Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 People forget how squishy they are until it's too late. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk That`s not the point....... a second later and he could have damaged my car! The irony is.....check out the house he came out of. I just noticed this later in the day. http://youtu.be/F3sIR0sv4YA
salsa-king Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 I've just ordered one of these..http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151583581117?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
majik_thighs Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 Same as I have. The instructions are pigeon English but eventually with a few sweary words, in time you can set it up. 1
Dogconker Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 I use 5min segments as these are quite manageable. Other than that I loop mine in a 4hr cycle. It depends how big you memory card is really as to how you loop. Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk
majik_thighs Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 5 minutes is what I have mine set for, 32 gig memory card but less than that is fine as it just re-writes itself when full. Any sharp braking will lock a file so it won`t get written over.
Dogconker Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 Pretty much same as my set up Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk
majik_thighs Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 Pretty much same as my set up Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk But yours is a much better camera, I just bought a cheapo! :)
JusNoGood Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 I use a 3 minute loop...I wanted less of a chance of incriminating myself if I have to use one of the vids for insurance/police :D
stants Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 Haha can you not edit the length ? I set mine for 30min then if I need to I'll just chop it down with the phone software saves having dozens of files on the card
JusNoGood Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 :D My theory was they wouldn't want me editing the video file as that would be seen as tampering with evidence. I could view the vids on the card and delete the rest if I wanted to and just leave the one with the "event". Doesn't bother me having loads. If I want to have a watch of a trip its quicker to copy off a smaller file...rather than wait for a single 32gb file to copy. :)
salsa-king Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 two of these arrived today.. just over £16 each.. sister's car and the wife's will have these fitted. 32gb memory card Class10 arrived too.. £6 I ordered the same camera but with a rear one as well.. £44 :( Can you only go into menu when it's plugged into the car's 12v power.. and now when the USB is plugged in on the lap top?
Dogconker Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 But yours is a much better camera, I just bought a cheapo! :) To be honest the only thing that pushed me towards the camera I had was that you couldn't read number plates on most of the cheaper ones, and I tried a few "HD" cameras which had horrendous quality so have up in the end and spent £70. Can't fault the image clarity. And you can read number plates, handy for those that hit you and do one. Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk 1
Dogconker Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Transcend 200pro in the end but tried several before that. Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk
majik_thighs Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 two of these arrived today.. just over £16 each.. sister's car and the wife's will have these fitted. 32gb memory card Class10 arrived too.. £6 I ordered the same camera but with a rear one as well.. £44 :( Can you only go into menu when it's plugged into the car's 12v power.. and now when the USB is plugged in on the lap top? It has a built in power supply but I think only to keep the internal clock going. I set mine up plugged into the PC with my reading glasses on, mostly trial and error but go there in the end.
salsa-king Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 what does RT mean in the menu it gives time in mins or OFF.
salsa-king Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 I picked this up yesterday too... pick up via Argos :) dual camera.. the rear cam has lines set up on the screen, good for rear parking :) 1
salsa-king Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 It has a built in power supply but I think only to keep the internal clock going. I set mine up plugged into the PC with my reading glasses on, mostly trial and error but go there in the end. what is your picture like at night? on the little screen it looks very dark. do i need to turn IR on? or should it be Off?
majik_thighs Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 what is your picture like at night? on the little screen it looks very dark. do i need to turn IR on? or should it be Off? you don`t really need the screen on, it`s rather annoying at night. There`s a setting to have it switched off but I can`t find it so I just taped it over. The IR is on all the time. Night time it`s not brilliant but when you see it on the PC it`s not bad.
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