Re: ST Handling/cornering

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:43 AM 5/9/2000 -0400, Robert Smith wrote:
>I have the mirrors set so that I get about 40% view of my elbows and 60%
>of the road to the rear and to the sides.  I find this gives a pretty good rear and
>side view except immediately behind the bike. I rarely have someone immediately
>behind me (except maybe at stops).  So, I am not usually trying to look there.

Yeah, I have mine set at 50% elbows, and I can see the lane behind me.
And I am very wide across the shoulders.

>I thought that a while ago there was some conversation about mounting a
>rectangular convex mirror the opposite way as normally fitted on cages
>(i.e. thick part to the outside) to get a better view behind.  Maybe that was on
>another conversation. See my ascii  art of the mirror below.

I mounted two small convex mirrors on the inner (useless) half of the
mirrors, one above the other.  I have them with the thick part toward
the inside, to give me a view into my blind spot on either side.  This
is great, and it is now impossible to hide in the lane on either side
of me, even for another bike.


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