Comments on: Helmet Mirrors, Classic Television and Voyeurism

By: BluesCat

BluesCat — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:07:29 +0000

bjorke – Pretty neat, and you’re right: I did not know about this.

Too bad they don’t make one that’ll fit on my Specialized and Trek helmets.

By: bjorke

bjorke — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:46:09 +0000

I’m always surprised that no one seems to know that Bell makes a flip mirror for their commuter helmets. I have one and LOVE it. It survives on and off and tossing around because it pivots up to tuck into the shape of the helmet. Check it out.

By: BluesCat

BluesCat — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:09:25 +0000

Hey! And here's another thing I discovered when I visited the Third Eye Mirror Repair site. They have replacement Dual Lock for the Foam Helmet Mirror for REALLY cheap: you just stuff a dollar bill into an envelope, along with an SASE, include a note telling them what the buck is for and mail it off to the address there on the site.

By: BluesCat

BluesCat — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:28:26 +0000

Eric W – You can get replacement parts for your Third Eye Mirror at Third Eye Mirror Repair.

Pretty cheap too: $2 plus $4 shipping. Now, mind you, I’ve never had to use this service, so you’ll have to tell us how it works out for you.

By: Eric W

Eric W — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:45:01 +0000

Plus one for the glasses mirror. I move it from clear night glasses to grey safety glasses often. Actually, I miss it when I’m off the bike!

I have the Third Eye one. The little plastic three armed clip that attaches the ball and socket arm to the glasses frame has broken. I splinted it with glue and plastic to no avail – there’s a lot of force holding it on and it just comes loose. Now I’m thinking pipe cleaner like wrap to hold it on. Any ideas?

A helmet mirror won’t survive in my urban environment – I take my helmet off and on frequently and I just hang it somewhere. That mirror isn’t likely to stay on nor aligned.

Handlebar mirrors don’t seem to stay on nor stay in focus due to vibration on my cyclocross commuter. The last one just left as I was riding…

And I’ve put rubber cement into a car mirror that is too loose. This works fine below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Unhappily, it becomes a lubricant at 90 – 100. Not useful when it’s hot! Make it worse. Try the hairspray above.

By: Gordon L Belyea

Gordon L Belyea — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:22:23 +0000

Not being a helmet wearer, and not able to get a standard bar end or clamp on mirror for the standard bars on my Batavus that didn’t end up dangling loosely in the breeze, I’ve bought a mirror that fits on to the left arm of my glasses. It uses three tines on a boom holding the mirror that grasp both sides of the arm – it can be switched between glasses, bent slightly to align, and its ball & socket mirror adjuster is still tight after 6 mos daily use.

It does suffer from the drawback that I am unable to look directly behind me without turning my head slightly – adjustments of the mirror itself yield either my fuzzy cheek or the sidewalk on the far side of the road! However, with practice I can give a quick nod to bring approaching traffic into view. As well, the helmet mirror has the advantage of being easily turned to view merging traffic from the off side.

Anyhow, I’ve been quite happy with my glasses-mounted unit, which I picked up from our local sports store.

By: BluesCat

BluesCat — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:55:05 +0000

Ted – I’ll bet cheap hairspray would work too, and wouldn’t attract bees, flies and ants to your tasty smelling grape soda seasoned helmet mirror. Cheap hairspray also works great if your grips keep working their way off your handlebars; simply take the grips off and spritz the bar with a quick hit of the hairspray; the wet hairspray will act as a lubricant to allow you to twist the grips back on easily and when it dries it stays very tacky and will keep those grips in place.

mwmike – Third Eye makes what they call the Eyeglass Mirror, which fits on the bow of your sunglasses or most eyeglasses. If you don’t wear eyeglasses, and you should NEVER wear your sunglasses at night, you could get a light pair of safety glasses and wear the mirror on those.

Chip – As a fellow eyeglass wearer for almost 50 years, I feel your pain about the problems they sometimes present in your life. Heck, I could go on for PARAGRAPHS about just the solutions I’ve thought up for riding while wearing eyeglasses. Hey! Sounds like a seed idea for another article!

By: mwmike

mwmike — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:09:16 +0000

Somebody needs to invent a tiny mirror mount for those of us who don’t wear styrofoam on our heads.

By: Chip Olson

Chip Olson — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:43:28 +0000

I dislike helmet mirrors, because I wear glasses, and it’s tricky to adjust a helmet mirror so that it’s in my corrected field of vision but doesn’t obstruct my forward view. And every one I’ve tried (including the Third Eye Pro) gets knocked out of said tricky adjustment really easily.

I find my handlebar mirror indispensable for urban riding, however. 90% of the time, what I need out of a mirror is one bit: Car Behind Me or No Car Behind Me, a task it handles admirably.

By: Ted Johnson

Ted Johnson — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:50:04 +0000

I had one like that once. I’m not sure if it was a Cycleaware, but I dripped some Welch’s Grape Soda into the joint and that gummed it sufficiently to keep it adjusted.

I was on a short bike tour, at a rest stop somewhere west of Jacksonville, wondering what to do about that infernal mirror. The solution was right in my hand.