Originally Posted by
joejack951
On a serious note, when riding with someone of lesser ability than yourself (for everyone here, that means anyone aside from Pros), a mirror is quite useful to help you maintain the max pace that your riding partner can manage. It's very easy to keep constant tabs on their gap to your rear wheel without losing focus on the road ahead.
I use a Take-A-Look on my (sun)glasses. Feels weird to ride without a mirror these days after more than decade with one.
I had added as an Addendum to my post about wearing two rearview mirrors.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I use both left and right rearview mirrors, in my case Take-a-Look eyeglass mounted ones...The additional right hand mirror affords a pretty good rearward view, but is particularly useful:…
Addendum: This past weekend I rode with a companion on a low-riding recumbent three-wheel trike. I just deflected my right-hand mirror slightly downwards so I didn’t have to crane my neck upwards to see him. The left-hand mirror was still in place to monitor rearward traffic.