As you use the Mountain Mirrycle mirror on your flat bars, may I ask do you also use bar ends?
I find it EXTREMLY difficult to get a mirror to angle so that it can be seen while using
the bar ends.
Cheers,
Ian
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> >"Ian Teelan" <
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> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Can anyone recommend effective mirrors to fit on the bar ends of a flat handlebar cycle. I
> >> currently use Cateye Racing mirror (on right and
left)
> >> but have never found them very satisfactory. I use Mirrycle mirrors on
my
> >> drop bar cycle.
> >
> >Out of curiousity, do you actually find mirrors any good?
>
> Yep, much prefer to ride with mirrors on my bikes. I've had them for years.
>
> >I recently rode a friend's bike that had them fitted, and I found it much more hard work to look
> >and focus on them,
>
> I have a Mirrycle mirror on my dropped bar bike, and a Mountain Mirrycle on my flat barred bike. I
> find looking in them easy enough, just like looking in the mirrors in the car on or an motorbike
>
> >than look over my shoulder and get a decent full view of the road.
> >
> I've never considered a glance over the shoulder (which isn't even al in focus 'cos I'm shorted
> sighted and have specs to be decent view.......
>
> I like mirrors because I can easily monitor what is going on behind, much more so than looking
> over my shoulder. It does not remove the need for looking behind as well, esp. when doing a
> manoeuvre - but it means I need to do it a lot less - I can see when it isn't safe to do
> something, and I can anticipate sooner when it might be safe to do something, and I can spend
> longer looking ahead at where I am going.
>
>
> >Just a shoddy technique on my part?
>
> Dunno, some people like them some people don't
>
> Anyway, to answer the Op, I find the Mountain Mirrycle very good.
> --
> Chris French, Leeds