Mirrors

[Kzx14]

Hi everyone just wanted to share one of the best and cheapest safety upgrades I have done to my bike! I got a pair of small blind spot MIRRORS from super cheap for $5. I stuck these to the inner part of my MIRRORS where you see your arms! I got the ones that you can rotate. I park in a car park between two cars and turn these so I can see the most of the cars either side of me. Done! Fantastic when riding no more blind spots and turning around all the time you can see cars in your blind spot MIRRORS right beside you awesome and heaps safer. Cheap as well. Can't recommend enough.! Just wanted to share so try them out .

[johcar]

Hi everyone just wanted to share one of the best and cheapest safety upgrades I have done to my bike! I got a pair of small blind spot MIRRORS from super cheap for $5. I stuck these to the inner part of my MIRRORS where you see your arms! I got the ones that you can rotate. I park in a car park between two cars and turn these so I can see the most of the cars either side of me. Done! Fantastic when riding no more blind spots and turning around all the time you can see cars in your blind spot MIRRORS right beside you awesome and heaps safer. Cheap as well. Can't recommend enough.! Just wanted to share so try them out .Alternatively, don't spend any money, but turn your head. Same effect, far more reliable.

[caspernz]

The spotter mirrors are a good idea, just a shame they don't last very long. I've had a couple of sets that I've fitted to my bikes over the years, yes very handy but takes some getting used to in the dark! Too many lights coming at ya from the extra wide view of the mirrors. I had mine stuck to the bit of the mirror normally occupied by a view of my elbow, using epoxy is fine. In the end I reverted to a fail safe technique, otherwise known as a head check, or lifesaver if you prefer the UK terminology :yes::whistle:

[Oakie]

I've often thought about getting small convex mirrors to stick on my existing mirrors just to give me a wider field of view.
Headchecks still rule though.

[AllanB]

I have the most beautiful tiny Rizoma spy Q mirrors. Given how small they are the rear vision is surprisingly good.

They are motorcycle jewelry.

I'm getting a semi just thinking about them.

[Oakie]

I'm getting a semi just thinking about them. A reflection erection?

[AllanB]

A reflection erection?

And the best part - items appear larger in the slightly curved glass :niceone:

[Oakie]

And the best part - items appear larger in the slightly curved glass :niceone:

Must get one for the bedroom ...

[rastuscat]

Alternatively, don't spend any money, but turn your head. Same effect, far more reliable.

Radical thought. It'll never catch on.

[caspernz]

Radical thought. It'll never catch on.

Yeah, who would think such a simple solution has any merit...:devil2::wait::clap:

[nzspokes]

I wouldnt mind some of these for the CBR. The stock mirrors are rubbish and worse with wide clipons.

[caspernz]

I wouldnt mind some of these for the CBR. The stock mirrors are rubbish and worse with wide clipons.

Yeah that's my problem on the Busa as well. But then it would help if I didn't present such a wide object for the mirrors to look around...:wacko::eek5:

[Moi]

Yeah that's my problem on the Busa as well. But then it would help if I didn't present such a wide object for the mirrors to look around...:wacko::eek5:

You need to think laterally...

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[Viking01]

Hi,
Interesting to read the comments regarding the use of dome mirrors.

I have dome mirrors fitted to my VFR as well as to both of our cars.

While I do perform head checks, I have three problems when doing a head
check when riding the VFR (though much less so when driving a car):

1. My neck is quite stiff, and I can turn my head only quite slowly, so
this can mean several seconds when I'm not facing forward and watching
the traffic immediately in front of me;

2. The chin of my helmet tends to strike my shoulder, and in order to do
a head check, I first have to look up slightly and then turn my head.

3. I also wear glasses, and unless I turn my head sufficiently, I do not
get a clear view through a focal part of the lens. At best, I might see a
shadowy shape, but not a clear image.

All of which either slow down my performing a head check, or do not give me
confidence that I have an accurate picture of what is immediately behind me
in an adjacent lane (into which I wish to move).


I appreciate that rider training for gaining a motorcycle licence (as well
as organisations such as IAM) require doing head checks. I'm not disputing
the obvious value of doing a head check.

I still do do head checks, but for these reasons listed above, I use dome
mirrors as well - and tend to rely on them quite heavily.

Cheers,
Viking

[rastuscat]

Just on a tangent. I did a CBTA 6R assessment with a young guy on a 1990 CBR250RR yesterday.

Not a good bike to form habits on. Hard to do effective head checks, so it basically discourages them.

I'd put it on the LAMS prohibited list, personally.

[Viking01]

Rastus,
Good morning. Just to continue a little further down along your tangent.

One of my two regular mates has been hassling me for a while to get rid of
the VFR (Never!!), and to get a more upright Adventure style machine like
the two of them (Suzuki V-Strom DL1000 and KTM 1190).

"We could start doing some gravel roads together", I think was the collective
refrain. [ Both of them currently on road tyres, yes, good idea .... 8-)

But while I hate to admit it, the more upright riding position does have some
attractions for ageing knees and hips.

So, to try and force the issue, he turned up in my driveway Sunday two weeks
ago (completely unannounced) with the Suzuki, tosses me the key and says
"Now go ride the b@#$%& thing for a couple of weeks, get some kms under
your belt, and don't return it until you have".

So I've duly been out for a few rides of several hundred kms over the last two
weeks, and have to say that I was duly impressed.

No, this is not a Suzuki endorsement, so any Suzuki riders reading this post,
you can just go back to whatever you were doing .....

Apart from a slightly more comfortable riding position, what I did notice was
that being more upright, not only was my head higher up (giving an improved
field of vision), but my neck was straighter and the chin of my helmet could
clear my shoulder easily. So doing head checks was definitely much easier.

And since his V-Strom did not have dome mirrors, I had to rely on mirror and
head checks when doing lane changes.

From a practical point of view, the first two points of my earlier post have
been addressed.

I also went to the optician last Friday, and have decided to return to fixed
focus lens (away from progressive lens), so the new glasses might even
address the third point to some degree. We'll see in due course.

Any new machine might still get fitted with dome mirrors, though.

Anyway, to get back to your point:

Yes, I agree with your point the riding position for some machines definitely
doesn't help the rider with doing head checks.

[Old Steve]

On my Boulevard M50 I've spent $20 or so and fitted mirror extenders. These raise the mirror about 15 mm up and move it outwards about 35 mm, gives much greater rear vision.

I would say that this expenditure if on a par with that spent on heated grips for best money spent on the bike - though the mirror extenders are useful right throughout the year.

[nzspokes]

I'd put it on the prohibited list, personally.

I feel the same way about BMWs......:nya:

[rastuscat]

I feel the same way about BMWs......:nya:

Touche.

Or rather, Douche.