Wearing a helmet camer

superfourben

Having watched a couple of helmet camera videos with various differing opinions of who's right and wrong...

Do people who wear helmet cameras end up attracting road problems because they know they are going to capture some 'interesting' footage on camera to be posted later on websites and hope it becomes 'news' or is wearing a camera a good thing in highlighting the problems cyclists face on the roads.

For the record, I don't have a helmet camera and currently don't intend to install one.

rickeverett

to be honest there's a lot of offences by cyclists committed too which could do to be caught on camera. Especially those London lot.
Sometimes on these videos the cyclists themselves commits an offence. What about that fella on the C4 Complainers programme. Kitted up to catch bad behaviour and jumped a red when he set off!

adr82

I think some people do use the camera they wear as an excuse to go looking for trouble in a sense. I can imagine them riding along looking for drivers doing something slightly silly that they can then start yelling about, all the while looking forward to getting home and posting it on their YouTube channel with a rant about how bad all motorists are and that cyclists are deliberately persecuted by everybody and never do anything wrong blah blah blah.

I just wear one in case someone hits me or causes an accident trying to overtake me where it's unsafe (I'm convinced it's only a matter of time before I get a front row seat to a head-on collision somewhere). It's not even a particularly high quality camera and doesn't have a great battery life, but it is very small and unobtrusive and lightweight enough that I can easily forget I'm wearing it.

wandsworth

I think there's value in it for the reasons adr82 says, i.e. as evidence in case something serious happens, but I'm convinced that the helmet cam guys with YouTube channels go looking for trouble and controversy to get their views up.