Originally Posted by ghettocruiser
I stopped using a mirror about 12 years ago and haven't started again.
Motorist-overtaking mishaps are relatively common around here in serious bicycle accidents, but I'm not sure a mirror would give me the means to avoid them.
Maybe I'll try one again sometime in the next little while.
Perhaps if that kid who was killed by the 19 year old woman downloading ringtones had a mirror he could have avoided being hit. The reality is that you can't look over your shoulder constantly, but a glance in a mirror is easy and fast. I always know when a car is about to overtake me, and I always know just how close they are going to be. There are plenty of times where I had to swerve into the shoulder to avoid being hit. If I didn't have the mirror, who knows what would have happened.