Hey Suzanne, congratulations! It’s a very common mistake, but I think this is the first time I can recall anyone noticing and correcting it.

Sorry I spelled your name wrong!

Hi Rachel! So, the cam arrived. I have mounts for my head. helmet, chest, wrist, selfie stick, tripod and handle bars...and more! But the handle bar mount doesn't fit my bike so I ordered another one. So far I haven't made any videos worth saving, our soothing scenery is a little monotonous on a video. But making stills is fun, too. I think the 2nd hand cam is fine, until I do something weird and it says error.

Sounds fun. I envy you being so close to all the great European destinations.

We are still procrastinating! We might do a short run in Bavaria, then at the end of August a longer ride, a door-to-door loop through Italy. Since we don't have to reserve flights we can be pretty flexible.

How exciting. It’s likely to have some kind of mount but not necessarily a handlebar mount. Hope you enjoy it. We’ll be following your tour. Where are you going?

I'll try not to forget the mount! My panniers are already full with electronic equipment, almost.
Tomorrow the GoPro will be delivered, with a lot of extras it said. 😀 I wonder if a mount is included. I wonder if I still have room on my handle bars. 😵

That makes a lot of sense. I got my first video camera as a retirement present and got a chance to see if I liked it. The only reason I got the gopro 7 is that my gopro hero 5 froze up at the beginning of a tour and the gopro 7 was the only camera available to purchase overseas. I had already had other tours where I couldn’t use my camera in the past so I decided to get it. One word of warning that has caused issues is forgetting some piece of the mount. We’ve had to order mount overseas a couple of times. Hope you enjoy the camera!

Probably a good idea to start this way to see if you even like it. Also, there’s the choice of a handlebar mount to consider. The one we have is the ‘GoPro Handlebar/Seatpost/Pole Mount (GoPro Official Mount)’, about 30 USD. A bit speedier than some alternatives, but lighter, more stable, and much better than other choices in my opinion.

Thanks for all the good info, Rachael! Somehow I didn't have the courage to plunk down the money for the GoPro7 and am going for a second hand, bargain priced GoPro4. Hope I don't regret it and want desparately to upgrade later on. The very smooth image stabilization and voice commands are very convincing features. We'll see. Hope I end up with some videos or stills that are worth posting.

I have the gopro 7 black and previously had the gopro hero session 5. I absolutely love my new one for the following reasons. It has a removable battery so I can carry an extra battery and also because I had to replace my hero 5 because it froze up and I couldn’t remove the battery so it would reboot. I now can remove the battery if it freezes which did happen when I did something strange. It has hyper smooth image stabilization which is great on non smooth roads. I also like the feature for recording time lapse video that’s called time warp. If you look at the 2nd video for our last ride in Palermo you can see what it looks like. Another feature I had in both my cameras was voice commands which I use in traffic and going downhill. Good luck in finding a camera. You will enjoy it a lot. I’m always surprised what I see in the film that I didn’t notice while I was cycling because of traffic or other distractions.

Hi Rachael, me again! I was wondering which Go Pro you have. I feel so tempted and have a birthday coming up! Any advice you could give based on your experience? I'm thinking of going for a used cam from an earlier series, is there anything I should watch out for?

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Oops! I’m sorry. You’ve been so loyal. Your still the best but Greg is next.

Hey, wait a minute! I was there first. That Greg, always thinking of clever things to say. G-2 knows what I mean.