Sixy_the_red wrote:
I can see your point Robin, but I'm saying that I can see all I need to be able to see by turning my head.
That hint of motion that turned out to be a car trying to overtake me? By looking behind me, I've seen it there in my lane and have judged its speed as a possible conflict before committing to the menoeuvre. Besides which, I don't stop looking behind as I start the move, I'm looking everywhere as I'm changing lanes to make sure nothing unexpected happens.
Spot on.
Also: That's great, and responsible of you Robin.
But what works for you doesn't necessarily for others. like I said earlier, in 30 years on the road I have never had an incident or even a near miss which was directly attributable to the lack of mirrors.
The use of speed cameras (oops how un pc of me. safey cameras) and many other measures coming our way, common sense is being removed from the motorist because thinking is hard for what seems the majority of road users. Sat-nav is next, it's been used in Venice for many years to track and record the speed of gondolas and/or taxi boats. exceed the 4mph speed limit and your nicked. We're all getting very cushy with sat-nav systems but it wont be long before we
must have them so road charges can be levied and your location recorded in case a criminal investigation needs to know where you were.
since 1983 ish, all bikes must have an offside mirror fitted because some were performing manouvres without checking. so they removed the common sense factor and gave us no reason to be lazy. Compulsory indicators came in about the same time but there are still a lot of drivers that believe we should all know where they're going because they go that way every day. None of my bikes has indicators either.