Mirrors below are safer
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2013
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From: PL
The first thing you learn here, and it is engrained into you for life is, always and continuely check your mirrors. Wether I drive a car or be on my bike I always know what is behind me, how close and if it is fast approaching. It becomes automatic and you give a quick glance every few seconds or so. You don't even notice you do it.....until something is not right. Then you go into alert mode and act if needed.
Head check is neccersary in busy traffic but I would refuse to ride or drive if the mirrors are either broken, gone or not set correctly.
Head check is neccersary in busy traffic but I would refuse to ride or drive if the mirrors are either broken, gone or not set correctly.
but I completely agree with you. I can not drive without mirrors set correctly and always trying to be aware what is happening behind me.
Road Master
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From: Bonaire, Ga.
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Whatever your choice in Mirror placement the number one objective should be safety and needing to lean the body and/or twist the body or to move the head to see into a mirror is not the best placement of the mirror.
I'm sure someone will say "well you need to move your head to see through the right mirror in a car" and that would be correct but by doing so one still has a cage around them in the event of a blow from the left unlike a motorcycle.
Whatever your choice in Mirror placement the number one objective should be safety and needing to lean the body and/or twist the body or to move the head to see into a mirror is not the best placement of the mirror.
I'm sure someone will say "well you need to move your head to see through the right mirror in a car" and that would be correct but by doing so one still has a cage around them in the event of a blow from the left unlike a motorcycle.
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: San Francisco
I just put my keystones on and not only do the stock mirrors look terrible, I can't see ****. Yes, I turn my head all the time. In SF you better have your head on a swivel. I really hate the way mirrors look flipped, but that's just me opinion. I'm gonna pick up some bar-ends.
Hogdiver, I have to know why the English drive on the left regardless if it's a real reason or smart-*** answer!
Hogdiver, I have to know why the English drive on the left regardless if it's a real reason or smart-*** answer!
Hogdiver, I have to know why the English drive on the left regardless if it's a real reason or smart-*** answer![/QUOTE]
Nope not smart ****
someone will know
Nope not smart ****
someone will know
Last edited by hogdiver96; Feb 22, 2013 at 02:56 PM.
Cruiser
Joined: Apr 2012
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From: Los Angeles, CA
BTW, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India and a bunch of other countries also drive on the left...
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From: Phoenix, AZ
Never once did I mention that turning your head when making a lane change is wrong, I always do and believe everyone else should as well, but as Scaredofrain said the mirrors are there to keep an eye on traffic behind you and/or traffic that may be in the lanes to the left or right of you, if you can't see behind you due to your shoulders being in the way then it is obvious the mirrors or the position of the mirrors are in the wrong place..
Also, after installing the larger tank my mirrors hit also but if you play with them by loosing the nut and moving the mirror where it misses the tank then tighten them up you might find that they do work. I'm sure on some applcations (Bars) this will not be the case.
Also, after installing the larger tank my mirrors hit also but if you play with them by loosing the nut and moving the mirror where it misses the tank then tighten them up you might find that they do work. I'm sure on some applcations (Bars) this will not be the case.
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Not that it matters in the context of this thread but I understand that the reason for the English to drive on the left goes back to the days of horse travel. Most people are right-handed and back then riders made sure to pass others on the left so that they were ready to pull their swords and fight with their right hand.
BTW, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India and a bunch of other countries also drive on the left...
BTW, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India and a bunch of other countries also drive on the left...
those countrys you mentioned were under British Rule (apart from Japan) nope not relevant but it winter and cold out there.
