About us

I had a crash and no way to prove what happened

That is the whole reason this exists.

There was no footage. There was no independent witness. There was my version and there was the other version, and once it got to that point it stopped mattering what had actually happened on the road. It came down to who sounded more convincing afterwards.

Anyone who rides knows that feeling and knows how quickly it turns into resignation. You take the hit, you pay the excess, you move on. You tell yourself next time you will be luckier.

So I went looking for a camera

I assumed this was a solved problem. It is not.

Proper motorcycle dash cam systems exist and they are excellent, and they cost three to four hundred and need a wiring loom, a hardwire kit and usually a shop to fit them. That is a real bill and a day without the bike, for something you hope never to use.

The cheap end was worse. Action cameras that only record when you remember to press the button, on a battery that is flat by the time you need it. Which is to say, useless for the one job I wanted done.

Everything I looked at was either too expensive or too complicated. Nothing was just a camera that turns on with the bike and records.

What I built instead

RideProof One mounts to your mirror stem and powers from the bike. It starts recording the second you turn the key and it loops, so it never fills up and there is no button to remember. It is IP66 rated because it lives outside in whatever the day gives you.

It fits in under five minutes with the tools already under your seat. Nothing is cut, nothing is drilled, and nothing goes near your loom.

It is ninety nine dollars. Not because it is a lesser thing, but because the expensive part of those other systems is the installation and the wiring, and this does not need either.

The first one went on my own bike before we sold a single unit. It is still there.

How I run this

Small, and honestly.

You will not find an insurance discount claim anywhere on this site, because no motorcycle insurer in the US, UK, Canada or Australia currently offers one, whatever other brands imply. You will not find a statistic about how often riders get wrongly blamed, because no study exists that says it. If I cannot back a number up, it does not go on the page.

The camera is covered for two years including water and vibration, which are the two things that actually kill electronics on a bike. You get ninety days to change your mind. Both of those are written out in full on the Warranty and Returns pages, conditions and all, because a guarantee you have to read the small print to understand is not much of a guarantee.

When you email support, you are emailing me.

Alex
A rider from UK