Mirrors
June 15th, 2008 by becky
Way back on June 3, my mother asked if we had mirrors. Both Scott and I ride with mirrors. I have a bike mounted mirror and Scott has a helmet mount. When I see him with helmet and mirror he reminds me of the borg!
Here is a view of Scott from my mirror:
Scott says:
I really like my helmet-mount mirror. Early on I had trouble focussing on it, since I seem to be right-eye dominant, and I look at the mirror with my left eye, but I seem to have retrained my brain without too much trouble. With the mirror appropriately adjusted, I can see cars coming from a distance in my peripheral vision, and check across multiple lanes of traffic with a slight turn of my head.
A few times when I’m off the bike, I have noticed myself trying to use the mirror to see something behind me. Unfortunately, without the mirror I have to turn around instead!
June 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
What brand/model of mirror does Scott use, and where does he mount it on his helmet? I bought the “Take A Look” mirror (http://www.amazon.com/Bike-Peddler-Original-Eyeglass-Rectangle/dp/B000C17M26) and mounted it on my visor. It’s great, but even with three degrees of freedom I have trouble positioning it far enough to the left to see past my ear, and can’t see anything in the mirror without glancing directly at it!
Becky: You will be assimilated by the helmet-mount wearers. Resistance is futile.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Hey S&B,
Not sure, but I may be having some trouble submitting comments (we’ll see after this one), and definitely having trouble with the links that your pics point to — they take me to flickr, which I can sign into with my Yahoo ID, but it tells me the photos are private. Is that intended, or is the link supposed to take me to a larger version?
You could be on your bikes half way around the world and you can bet you’ll still be providing tech support to the likes of me!
Cheers,
Kevin
June 18th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Hi Kevin,
You aren’t having trouble submitting comments, they just require that we approve them before they get posted. Once you’ve had a few approved manually, the blog will automatically approve. This prevents spam hosts.
The pictures do point to flickr, as that is where they are stored. The link is a requirement in the flickr user agreement. We currently have all pictures lists as friends and family only, but we haven’t build a friends and family network. We’ll need to figure that one out when we get back.
Scott will respond to the mirror comment .. he says it is a “cyclowear” and Bushtukka has them.
Cheers,
Becky