I agree, if you want good quality, and what's point if the quality is crap, get a V.I.O. system. They are easy to install, easy to use, and the picture quality is great. Oh yeah, the company is good to deal with as well. (No I don't work for them.)
Below is a picture of the stereoscopic camera system is built and mounted on my bike last spring, prior to my Alaska trip.
This shows the camera heads mounted and positioned in the windshield vent hole using Ram Mount parts and one of Jon's dash mount systems.
The above photo shows the complete rig.
I used one of EdSet's bars mounted between the handlebars for mounting most of it. The two tall units on the right are the recorders for the stereo camera pair, to their left (yellow thing) is a Spot (total waste of money) and to its left is the camera system's record button. All the
POV.1 (VIO camera model) parts are waterproof and shock resistant. A single cable connects the recorder and camera head and its all self contained. If you want to mount the cameras further away, cords of various lengths are available. I have extra cable coiled between the recorder and camera heads.
On my right handle bar, I also had a camcorder mounted facing the rider. this was used only for recording commentary while stopped.
I have tried a number of camera systems and the POV.1 from V.I.O. is the best of the lot IMHO. I have 3 of their systems now which I'm reconfiguring for my Utah trip this May. I plan to have two on a new mounting system pointing forward for stereoscopic (3D) video and a single mono (2D) pointing to the rear.
One of the best features of the POV.1 is not its great picture quality and design but its "Tag" capture feature that alows for on-the-fly editting.
You can set a Tag length of 1 to 30 minutes - I have mine set for 3 minutes. The camera then records a continuous series of 3 minute clips. These clips are NOT saved to its disc (up to a 32 GB SD card), until you press the Tag button on its wireless remote. When the Tag button is pressed, the current Tag clip is saved to disc. If its in the first of last third of the 3 minute clip, it automaticaly saves the adjacent clip as well.
Let me explain by way of an example:
Your are riding through a section of twisties and suddenly as you round a curve, a deer is on the road in front of you. Your fast reactions and great handling Goldwing take you around the deer.
With a conventional camera system, if it had not been recording continously, leaving you with hours of useless video to edit afterwards, you would have missed the shot of a lifetime. With the POV.1 you can pull over and still have time to safely press the Tag button to save the video clip to disc. There is no other system I'm aware of that provides this biker friendly feature.
After my May trip, I'm permanently mounting a single camera on the front of my bike and wiring its power off the bike. this will allow me to have a video system always running when I'm riding and always available to capture what had just happened, minutes ago. I have also found that with some slight modification to the stage container, a single recorder will fit inside the locked, right-side storage space. A cleaver mounting location will keep the camera head hidden and thereby safe from theft.