Best bike and helmet cameras 2024 reviewed

Filming a great ride, or adding an extra layer of personal protection, we help you find your perfect bike or helmet camera

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(Image credit: Josh Ross)

So what's the point in bike cameras?

Sharing our two-wheeled adventures with our friends and family has been a global phenomenon, kickstarted brands such as GoPro. But bike cameras are more than just leisurely fun.

Like a car dash-cam, bike cameras are incredibly useful devices for providing video evidence in a road accident. In the UK, there's even a dedicated website, Nextbase, that enables you to submit action camera footage directly to the police 

Whatever your reasons for purchasing a bike camera, be it a helmet, bars or seat post rear-view camera, you can be assured there's a perfect one for you.

Josh Ross

Josh hails from the Pacific Northwest but would prefer riding through the desert than the rain. He will happily talk for hours about the minutia of cycling tech but also has an understanding that most people just want things to work. He likes to document his rides and always takes an action camera with him to capture footage to edit and share and has used a wide range of cameras, so knows what works and what doesn't. 

Paul Grele

Paul reviews both bikes and equipment for Cycling Weekly and has 40 years of riding under his belt across a variety of disciplines including road riding, commuting, a self-supported Land's End to John o' Groats trip, XC mountain biking and several Polaris Challenge two-day events. Naturally for a reviewer he loves bike and kit design and has even fillet brazed a couple of framesets himself. He's out riding in all conditions, usually with an action camera strapped to his bike to capture his rides.

Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.

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