RoadSpy: A better way to mount cameras and more | Articles

If you’ve grown tired of fumbling with windshield suction mounts for things such as GoPro cameras, RoadSpy offers a solution. The RoadSpy Supermounts use your existing rearview mirror as the base to securely mount your camera, radar detector, dash cam and other devices in the same place every time.

RoadSpy’s Rick Hovsepian came up with the idea while tracking his 981 Cayman.

“I was on track at Sebring last year, and I had a suction-cup mount for my GoPro,” Rick says. “I couldn’t get the suction-cup mount to stick to the glass, no matter what I did. It was in the morning and the glass was sweating. I used coffee, a little bit of spit, some water, it didn’t make a difference. With a bumpy track and stiff suspension, the suction mount would fall off and now you got your GoPro flying around while at speed. The GoPro fell down out of Turn 17, and fortunately it didn’t hit me. It actually landed in my passenger’s lap.”

That frustration at Sebring led to Rick eying the rearview mirror while on the race track. He wondered, “What if I could somehow mount the camera off the mount for my rearview mirror?”

However, unlike the rearview mirrors of the old days, today’s rearview mirror mounts have relatively complex shapes. Fortunately, Rick had a background in manufacturing and injection-molded plastics. When he got home from the track, Rick went to work and came up with a design for the first RoadSpy Supermount, the RS1, for his 981 Cayman.

Now the company offers 18 different mounts for many of the popular models, such as the Mazda Miata, Porsche 911, Toyota GR86/Subaru BRZ, Ford Mustang, Nissan 350Z/370Z, Honda Civic, Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet Camaro, among others, with more in the works.

With the Supermount, you not only no longer need to worry about the mount falling off, it also provides other benefits.

“When you start seeing the footage from the camera, you’ll be impressed,” says Rick. “It’s mounted up high and right at the centerline of the car. You can get a nice view of the car’s nose downwards. You can get a great idea of your car’s placement on the track.”

When you evaluate in-car video, the mount also offers another perk.

“It’s in the same spot every time, and without the bouncing, too,” Rick says. “Suction cups often have a bit of give to them. Especially if you have four suction cups–they’ll start to rotate slightly, and you can see that on the camera…