Garmin Varia RCT715 Rearview Radar with Camera and Tail Light UK-France

I brought this initially for the camera, along with a GoPro 11 for the front of the bike. My commutes are very early morning and dark. The picture on this was better than the GoPro when shooting in the dark. Even after making all the tweaks I could on the GoPro I still found this took better pictures. I was able to read plates at night. It wasn't perfect but it was acceptable.The radar was a game changer for me. With the introduction of "wands" to separate cycles and cars, I find it much harder to merge with traffic to make a right hand turn. This helps out a lot. It's not perfect but it gives a fairly good idea when not to merge. You get to see multiple vehicles and can judge their speed, withouut having to look over your shoulder.The downside is the software. There is an option to extend the clips up to 5 minutes each but unfortunately it doesn't work. My clips are all 30 seconds long.To copy from the device I don't use their software. Instead I simply plug it in to a pc, it appears as a device, and I copy off manually. I don't need to turn it on to do this (unlike the gopro). However the speed is very slow compared to the gopro - roughly 1/4 of the speed. I suspect they saved a few cents using dated hardware which is a real shame.Overall, very happy with it.

This will record crystal-clear footage of everything behind you and has the battery life for century rides at 1080p resolution. Coupled with the already excellent traffic radar, it is next-level tech that does its job perfectly.BUT...I recorded a 90 minute ride yesterday and needed five minutes of footage for a police report (a crazy van guy is going to lose his job!). Problem is, this stores your entire ride in 30-second blocks, so for an hour and a half, you have 180 clips to sift through. Yes, they're time-stamped, but you're not going to remember the exact time when you're back home looking for the moment something happened. Viewing them is slow, despite my phone being right next to it and connected to it by wifi.If your Garmin head unit detects an incident, it automatically stores a 90 second clip showing just before and after, and stores that in a separate 'locked' tab, which would be great, but not all incidents are going to be detected, like this one wasn't.Anyway, the attached video shows the time it takes to download just one 30-second clip, I had to do this TEN times and you can't queue multiple for download, you must do them one by one.C'mon Garmin, sort this crap out BEFORE bringing an otherwise great product to market. Somebody on their team actively decided against making this process easier, as it is an obvious shortcoming and would have been brought up in development meetings.

Like quality feel of Radar/Camera & audible alerts of vehicles approaching from behind. Still having pairing & set up issues as pdf instructions are vague & assume advanced knowledge of Bluetooth/wifi connectivity.