Originally Posted by
alan s
Get a rack and fenders, bell, wide tires, wear something bright, good lights, pump, CO2, patch kit and spare tube. Forget the mirror. Ride as fast as you can and most importantly, assume you are invisible.
Is this post seriously meant as good advice?...a bell instead of a mirror?
....ride as fast as you can?
Use of a mirror may be a contentious item on various threads, but the preponderance of replies favor a mirror, and to categorically dismiss its utility, especially to a beginner seeking advice is pretty irresponsible IMO:
Originally Posted by
Oldsport
I always thought that I didn't need a mirror because it is so easy for me to look back...Now I won't ride without it.
In fact I would ride without a helmet before I would ride without my mirror.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I have read many BF threads about mirrors, and this is a common reply. I perennially post to such threads that I wear two eyeglass-mounted mirrors,
both right and left.