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Marc
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2024
Just like your car, this is a bike rear view mirror for the cyclist. This is an added measure of safety for riding on the road and seeing what is behind you. Great for checking if your riding mate is still behind you as well.This mirror does not replace still turning your head over your shoulder to ensure the road is clear. For the best safety you always must do this as there are blind spots with mirrors.I think its a great accessory to help remain as safe on the open roads as possible. Its made with great quality and install is a breeze. Highly recommend, get one for your bike(s) today!
KAM
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2016
I LOVE THIS MIRROR!!!I first put one on my Trek hybrid and was very pleased,so much that I bought a second one for my road bike.Being a truck driver I tend to place a lot of importance on mirrors.The quality of the glass, lack of distortion, and steadiness are very important to me.This mirror offers all of that, and better than any other I've tried.On the straight handbars it is located great, and sits out from the end of the bar grip enough that my hands don't interfere.I didn't think I''d like it on the road bike because of the location the mirror would end up in.I see many road bikes with the smaller streamlined mirrors, so I bought one of those but didn't like how small the mirror was.It made it difficult to really see what was coming up behind you, how close it actually was, and how fast it was coming.So I bought a second mirror that was round and bigger, and set out to the side of the handlebar end, only to have that one get in the way of my hands when down in the drop portion of the bar.Out of desperation I took this mirror off my hybrid because I needed something for a ride that day, and it works great.When I'm grabbing the end of the bar in the drops my forearm may block the mirror just a bit, but if I'm keeping my elbows in tight it's ok.Nice size allows me to see what is coming and how fast, how far behind me it is. Remains stable for a good clear view.Easy to mount, comes with 2 sizes of rubber knurled inserts. You choose which size best fits the inside of your bar end, tighten it up a little before inserting so that it slides in fully but offers a little resistance, and once pushed all the way in just rotate it by hand to tighten completely.You do need to make sure you tighten it completely, or it will shake around when you are on bumpy roads and possibly fall out.I noticed several negative reviews that mention vibration and falling out. It needs to be tightened completely or that will happen.
D. Wright
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2013
I don't like riding in traffic without a mirror. Some people don't care for mirrors, but if you're one of them why bother reading these reviews? As a personal preference some people prefer helmet-mounted mirrors, but those don't work well with my particular type of contact lenses and are easily damaged or misaligned if you set your helmet down wrong, so I go for a handlebar mounted mirror. I've tried a lot of them, and IMO this one is the best:- Zefal is a decent one and I like the oblong shape. I've had several of them but they are fairly fragile and they've all broken after a year or two of use. I've sometimes managed to recombine broken ones together into newly functioning mirrors depending on what part broke, but finally ran out of spare parts. Also some adjustments require partial disassembly.- CatEye round cheapie is TOO convex. Everything appears too small, making it useless on rough pavement or in the rain.- Blackburn and Rhode Gear mirrors are too big and clunky IMO.The Third Eye barely consumes any space outside the handlebar other than the round shape itself, is easily adjusted, and requires no tools. Just choose the appropriate sized rubber "filler", tighten by hand until it's slightly snug in the handlebar, put it in the handlebar and crank "righty-tighty" until it's tight. From there you can still rotate it back and forth in the handlebar, and there's a separate adjustment to angle it inward or outward. The second adjustment can be done by hand, but there's a screw that adjusts the stiffness of that adjustment and it's a bit loose from the factory so you may have to tighten it once with a screwdriver.Unlike most mirrors it works on both flat (mountain) and drop (road) handlebars, and I use it on both. Your arm may block the view a bit on a drop handlebar, but you just tuck your arm in very slightly whenever you want to look back.
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