Originally Posted by
BigBlueToe
I have the Blackburn Road Mirror. I can't use a barend mirror, because I have barend shifters. The Road Mirror is okay, except the mount isn't very solid, so it shakes over the smallest bumps. It needs to be beefed up, or triangulated somehow. (Are you listening, Blackburn?) I have a barend mirror on my mountain bike that is much more solid.
I would no more ride my bike without a rearview mirror than I would drive my car.
Probably the most solid, would be a mounting ring, similar to a radiator hose clamp, in that you put the ring around the bars, then tighten the screw until it's tight, the mirror part then is attached to the ring part, so that it covers the adjusting screw, leaving only the ring visible. Next time you tape the bars, you simply install the ring before you start, and tape right around it, once the mirror unit is attached, everything is hidden. Although one of the problems I find, is that with all the crap that ends up attached to the bars, there isn't a lot of room for anything else.