I had really been enjoying my new ATC2K video camera. In fact, I must have been enjoying it so much that in a moment of excitement, I failed to notice the locking clip didn't lock quite so securely when I slid the camera into its mount. I had been trying the mount on different locations (on the rear subframe with the camera facing backwards, on the lower fork legs, on the handle bars, on the passenger grab bar, etc,).
In any event, I probably should have removed my gloves when I clicked the camera into the bracket, because I failed to notice that it didn't "click" securely. After riding a few kilometres, I happened to look down and saw the camera was gone. So I back-tracked and located it not far from the gas station where I had recently gassed up. It was lying in the middle of a very busy intersection, and it was easy to tell from the damage that it had been run over by a car. Destroyed!
The LCD still appears to work -- sort of...it displays some funky gibberish but that's about all it does. Verdict: the camera is dead, no longer able to record. I brought it home and removed the SD memory card to find that the last saved video file is corrupted. I tried a few of my forensic file recovery tools, without success. The file size is zero Kilobytes.
Anyway, here's one of the last video clips I made with it -- rear facing with the camera clipped to the seat subframe:
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Bad news about the camera. I have thought about getting one but have not yet purchased one. I like that it's water proof.
For your next cam have you thought about a GoPro Hero Wide?
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