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Old 04-05-12, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by CB HI
In past post, I have described how over many years, the use of a mirror has allowed me to bail off the road early enough to avoid being hit from behind. In one case, I still got hit, but it was with a folding side mirror rather than the bumper up the ass that would have otherwise occurred.

Ride enough miles, and eventually a mirror will help keep you out of the hospital.
Exactly. You should listen to CB.

You can leave it all to chance and fate by not paying attention to overtaking traffic, I mean, why bother, right? Or you can ride as defensively as possible to hopefully leave yourself an out when something wrong happens.

Funny, that's the same thing drivers should do.
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