Do you have two mirrors on your bike or just one?

[Monster Dave]

i'm always a bit paranoid about knowing what's around me too...  for me, i constantly scan the mirrors at lights because i've seen way too many videos and articles about people getting slammed into by trucks at lights recently.

Just thinking about that creeps me out. Quite often when I come to a light, I'll watch the vehicular traffic behind me to be sure they are stopping too.

[dark_duc]

I run one L/S bar end because that's how the previous owner had it set up.  I said from the get go I would get another for the R/S but have gotten so used to it I'll probably just leave it.

[Twizted]

I always find that when riding on group rides I use my two mirrors a lot. If I can't see a following bike in one I will always check the other and sure enough there they are. I know you may be able to get away with one mirror if you use bar ends as they are usually convex and give a better field of view. But even on my other bike I use 2 bar end mirrors to keep me happy.

[Cloner]

What's a mirror?  Who cares what's back there?  Just  [moto] your  [moto], and hold your line, and everything will be right with the world.

[Radar]

Cloner,

I see by your avatar, you would only need a mirror to star-gaze!


You worry me!

Eric M.

[Cloner]

Cloner,

I see by your avatar, you would only need a mirror to star-gaze!


You worry me!

Eric M.

That's OK...you're behind me.  Worry all you like.   

The bike in the avatar no longer has mirrors on it .... just to provide consistency between words and actions.  They've been gone for most of a decade, along with my desire to do stoppies.

In all seriousness, why do you care what's back there? 

I was hit from behind once by a car.  I had mirrors when it happened.  They didn't help.  The car hit the bike behind me, too.  And the bike beside me.  In fact, the car went half way through the intersection before the idiot driving it realized she'd hit anything!

I'd rather concentrate on my riding and where I'm going than what the idiots behind me are doing. 

[Monster Dave]

What's a mirror?  Who cares what's back there?  Just  [moto] your  [moto], and hold your line, and everything will be right with the world.

Note the subtle hint of sarcasm.

[WhiteStripe]

I am a tool.  I actually have THREE mirrors.  Two stock and a left side bar end.  I commute in Boston traffic and lanes merging from the right onto 128 are my biggest fear.

I just haven't been able to get used to the height of the bar end mirror <shrugs>.  I am not cool.

[Cloner]

Note the subtle hint of sarcasm.

Spoiler.   

[rockaduc]

I run 2 mirrors on the Duc and only 1 on the KTM.  The KTm is only on pavement 10% of the time or less so far.

[mors vito]

I use to ride with one bar-end mirror on the right side. Now I'm back to two regular mirrors, what a difference!

But i've always wanted to do what my co-worker did on his buell. He had mirrors on his gloves, and passed them of as mirrors. It was cool, i had never seen it before.

[monstermick58]

On the ST4 stock mirrors, but on the Monster its just one mirror in board of the brake master (we do ride on the left in Oz land) and it hangs under the handlebar so I look under my right arm, still do the head check thing.






                                  Mmick

[ab]

2 crg on the monster  (crg looks good but hate the fact that i can't gauge distance well and cant c top of the   cars)

1 cheapie bar end on left - on the Triumph S3  - head-check right side a lot

I find the 1 is enough.

No way I can ride without any mirror.   I head-check a lot but still I need to know what's around and the mirror helps me gauge traffic when changing lanes etc.  Not sure how people do it without any mirror. 

Interesting thread  

[Monster Dave]

Spoiler.   

I think it was missed until I pointed it out. 

[Düb Lüv]

I run 2 Third Eye bar ends      http://www.3rd-eye.com/%2809%29.htm

I actually use the right more than the left

+1 for the 3rd eye mirror. $10. can't beat it.

i just run one on the left.