When a house gives more passing room than a car... Cycliq + UpRide + Garmin Controls
Cycliq Camera Lights + Garmin control to capture, UpRide to share.
15 Nov, 2025 on Great North I had a close pass from a car, not that common but notable as it was immediately after a completely safe pass by a house!
I saw both coming in my rear-view mirror and the house truck driver was great: a short friendly 'I'm here' toot of the horn and so much clearance wasn't necessary for me to take to the footpath or stop. The following Merc driver, not so much despite having the adjacent lane completely clear...
Video from Cycliq Cameras
It was all captured by the Cycliq Camera Lights I run front and rear. I shared this on Cycliq's UpRide incident site which maps incidents users choose to report.
The UpRide Page
My Cycliq history
I've had Cycliq cameras since 2018. The reason is a bit grim; I often ride solo and know of someone who woke up in a country road drain after a fall—next to their broken bike—and to this day has no idea how they got there. Collision, bike failure, medical event, they had no idea. If nothing else recording your ride might answer questions like that.
They are also useful for capturing road incidents: have also found recording yourself makes you a ride and changes how I react to in response. Knowing detail like vehicle type, registration, time of day etc will be captured you can devote all your mental effort to avoidance, not details like that.
My first front 'Fly12' camera is still working fine—semi-retired now—but my original rear camera was killed by a fall which damaged the case and allowed water in.
A favourite descent (Mt Donald Mclean down to Little Huia) on the Whatipu Road. (The source Cycliq video is much better quality than this, seems YouTube compression is not kind to the road vibrations.)
My Fly12 even went kayaking in Antarctica!
My Current Cycliqs
The deceased rear camera was replaced by a Fly6 Pro and I updated to the companion Fly12 Sport to match the 6's much better battery life. The Fly12 original gave ~4-5 hours of light + Camera, the current ones 6-8 hours or more.
Paired with Garmin
The Cycliq cameras work well on their own—you pair them to a companion CycliqPlus smartphone and/or PC app to manage settings & updates—but since getting a Garmin head unit I have really appreciated their integration there.
Adding the CycliqPlus Edge update gives a dashboard screen (below left) that shows operating status & battery life, video lock button to prevent video overwrite (although impact detection also locks recordings) and camera (frame grab) snapshot.
Tapping on a light activates controls for it (below right, indicated by the red highlight) allowing you to choose the light pattern (Solid, Flash, Pulse, Organic in high or low intensity) and start/stop recording.
Turning the Garmin on/off will do the same to paired Cycliq lights, using BLE Bluetooth, set to the flash pattern last used.
It wasn't a replacement for locking but was a useful alert for short shop stops, or where you didn't have a bike in sight from the café table. I hope they bring it back as the motion sensor is still there for crash detection, so not a hardware issue.
Garmin 1050 with Cycliq Dashboard (left) and camera settings (right0
Front Rear still shots from the Fly12 Pro & Fly 6 Pro
Consider getting a Cycliq, you never know when you might want to capture a passing house...
Josh Ross - Cyclingnews
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