GoPro mount outside the truck

[Sitdown]

I have just about every GoPro mount they offer. I use them for everything. From my motorcycle and 4wheeler to 150+ mph on my Steeda Mustang. I haven't had any fail yet but I ALWAYS run a tether! I built my own tethers from small stainless cable and eyelets. I also put some heat shrink plastic on the cable to prevent scratching any painted areas on my rides. I'm sure that even the best mounts will fail at some point (GoPro is ALL plastic) from either extreme use or overuse. So just build some good tethers and secure them in a manor that when the mount fails you just replace the mount and not a $400 camera plus all your footage too.

^ Tether all the time.

Agree'd Tether & Tether good. My GP suction cup setup has seem lots of duty... taken some good blows from branches, seen 170+mph, and waves of water pounding it. Only had one case where it came loose, applied it on dirty surface, and ran a **** poor single fishing line tether... $450 lesson I wont repeat

Inside of wind shield it lasted a whole prerun at Freedom 250 lap at Barstow.....

Curious where you guys are mounting your in-truck setups. Inside is my preferred spot as its hardwired, no battery concerns, but really trying to find location with the least windshield glare. Best i've come up with is mount stuck on windshield behind the dot matrix as close to glass as possible.

 

[Baddoug]

I try to mount as close to windshield as possible without touching the glass. I did mess up one time and I put the suction cup on the dot matrix area on top of the tint and it pulled the tint loose and tore it so I had to have the whole eyebrow re-tinted. As for windshield glare, I have seen very little glare on my video footage.

 

[onesickpuppy]

Mine is mid way inside the center and behing my Lowrance and just misses the windshield

 

[Jordan@Apollo-Optics]

Definitely run a tether no matter what mount you run. Sure, they can handle being on a lambo at 200mph in the Texas Mile, but 60mph over whoops and rough terrain is a whole 'nother animal. I saw quite a few GoPro's hanging on by just their tethers at TRR this past year.

 

[Joe$]

i know this thread is a few months old but i use the go pro suction cup and have had no problems with it, i do lots of high speed offloading whoops sand and i even hit it with a branch once while going about 30. i always clean the area where you stick it and have fun

 

[Bulletnjm]

I cant get my suction cup to stick for the life of me

 

[lka]

Did you try wetting it?

 

[Deleted member 12951]

Lick it if all else fails

 

[lka]

Lick it N stick it..

 

[Rookie]

Lick it N stick it..

I tried. She smacked me.

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