Best bike and helmet cameras 2025 reviewed: capture epic rides or add an extra layer of personal protection to your commute

Capture, edit, and reminisce - whether it be capturing an adventure or footage for insurance purposes, the best action cameras for cycling are the perfect riding companion

Image shows a GoPro which is one of the best bike cameras
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There are two primary reasons for investing in one of the best bike cameras. The first is to capture your rides, allowing you to share your ascent of Alpe d’Huez, Box Hill or anywhere else, for that matter, with your cycling friends and family.

The second is far less cheery but essential nonetheless. Similar to a car dash cam, a bike camera can capture footage of road accidents, allowing the user to submit the evidence to the police. Let us not forget that they also have many uses outside of cycling, such as capturing family memories or participating in other action sports.

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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