Originally Posted by
curly666
…I wore a glasses mounted mirror, as I was riding home at 1 in the morning I noticed a pickup coming off a side street and it started following me. …I noticed a spot up ahead where I could pull in between parked cars and pulled in as it passed me. When it went by a guy was leaning out the window hanging onto the side mirror with a baseball bat in his hand. Luckily they just kept going.
I will never ride without a mirror.
Originally Posted by
bikeideas
Of all the "mirror stories" that I've read, which is quite a few, this one will definitely stick with me. Thanks curly666.
+10; thanks for that story. As much as I post advocating a mirror, I’ve never suggested that rationale. I have on occasion imagined the satisfaction, if someone was buzzing me, to avoid their pass and perhaps they would crash as I suddenly stopped; like the skateboard scene in
Back to the Future.
I think that the malicious/psychotic fraction of motorists is really small, and likely correlates with location and/time of day. But under the circumstances described, I’m sure a rearview mirror affords an element of surprise unsuspected by an assailant. Otherwise we are pretty vulnerable.