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| 5.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.02 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Poor Design, But Works OKJan 27, 2010
By Kerton
The VholdR helmet mount works OK, and should satisfy you if applied per instructions. Beware as you mount it that it cannot be moved once mounted, and so you must get the aim just right. When mounting this disk, what matters most is left-right aim, up down can be done later. Aim it by placing it on your helmet with the glue still covered up, and move it around using the camera's laser to aim. When you find the right spot, have someone else mark it with a sharpie, or a couple of pieces of masking tape, then you can take the helmet off and stick it in that place. If you try to do it yourself, it will not stay in the same place as you remove the helmet. You could use a mirror, I suppose.
But overall, this mount is poorly designed, and easily could have been much better. Here's how:
- It is a flat disk. What helmet has a flat area for mounting the sticky disk? None. Helmets are almost always curved, and in fact VholdR depends on the curve so that you can rotate the mount around the helmet to aim it. So, a flat disk does not make complete contact with a curved surface, only the center of it does. With all the edge hanging in the air, and a good portion of the sticky stuff not even touching the helmet, the mount looks ready to be peeled off the helmet. The solution would be to make the disk of 3M tape actually be a donut-like ring, so that it makes contact on the more important edges, and not the less important center. (home fix: take the disk, cut out the 3M tape in the center with a sharp knife, and leave a ring of tape. This makes it much better)
- It is very difficult to aim the camera for up-down because it needs to be fully removed from the disk to rotate. It cannot rotate at all when mounted. This means you need to aim the up-down first, then click the camera into the mount. This is a poor design. It would have been better (and easy) to design a "clicking rotation" mount that allows rotation in increments, like an old TV channel knob.
- The safety leash is a good idea. It holds your camera if the camera falls out of the mount - and that's important for a flat mount that doesn't make good contact with the round helmet. But for this mount, I'm far more worried about the mount falling off the helmet than the camera falling off the mount. Thus, the safety leash should be attached from your helmet or your jacket to the camera. That way, if the mount falls off, you can keep your camera.
This product works, but works poorly. It could have been much better.
UPDATE: VHoldR has released a new mount, fixing the up-down aim problem I discussed in my middle bullet above. It is at
http://www.amazon.com/Contour-Rotating-Flat-Surface-Mount/dp/B003ZUCITS/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1284854655&sr=8-1
However, the launch price for that upgraded mount is $40, which I find a bit high, especially considering it still asks for a "flat surface" which few of us have on our brain buckets.
Oh, well. The cameras are still AWESOME!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 It works fine butFeb 01, 2010
By Norris D. Boyd Jr.
It does exactly what it is supposed to do, but the glue that holds on the velcro is not as strong as the velcro. Every time you try to adjust the camera angle you end pulling the glue apart. Got the heat gun out and got the glue good and warm and that helped some. Still, would be simple for manufacturer to take the time and get things engineered so they worked together.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A Necessary Evil...Mar 27, 2010
By smilingbassist
I agree with the previous reviewers...if you are going to mount this on a motorcycle helmet, be VERY careful about your choice of location, and expect lots of fiddling and improvising. A better design would make life much easier VholdR!!!!!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Its the little train that almost nearly could...Oct 16, 2010
By Niki R.
"Globe Trekin"
I recently purchased the Contour HD helmet cam and was attempting to mount it on to my Icon Domain motorcycle helmet. A few issues came up... finding a flat surface to mount the 2150 Flat Surface Mount and adjusting the lense to be exactly horizontal.
So... here's what happened...
On most (if not nearly all) motorcycle helmet, there are simply no flat surface to properly mount this product and have good contact. However, there is a small area with only a slight curve and an unobstructed view of the road.
This area is on the visor.
Now before the joke and laughter starts, hear me out...
On the side of the helmet where the visor is connected to the left and right pivoting point, the area contains only a slight curve. about 2-4 degree. Move the mount (with cam attached and laser on) until horizon is nearly perfect (I would say about 3/4 of the way up and about 1/2 inch forward, or roughly the forward-mid-portion of your temple).
This area also has another surprising feature... you can loop the tether cord around the visor's pivoting ring, insert it into the pivot chamber, lock it and now your $300 cam is very secured. I would still recommend checking everything prior to a ride... just in case...
With the 135 degree wide angle lense that comes with the camera (and your visor curving away to greater than 10 degree, you WILL NOT see any part of the helmet, also, since its towards the upper part of the visor, it does not obstruct your view. Movement was minimal... well until you decide to move your head to look...
After a few high... uh... I meant WELL BELOW the speed run, I found that this worked nicely. Your helmet does pull a bit to the side where the camera is mounted... normal because of drag, but otherwise good. There were some noticeable buffetting, but again, I think its because I was looking around for traffic and stuff.
Could it have been built better? sure... I think it could
Is it an 'OK' product... for now? Yeah... I think so.
I offer this product a 3 star...
camera mountJun 25, 2011
By Fred Ferrara
It works, but no documentation so I found it hard to start to use... Maybe it was just me.
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