Mirrors - talk to me

[OakLeaf]

A decent helmet mirror is no more likely to wind up in your eyes than your sunglasses themselves (and good impact resistant sunglasses will help with that).

When I did my 21 mph face plant I landed on the center left side of my face. The noise I heard while I was briefly skidding along the ground - what I thought at the time was my brand new helmet - turned out to be my Chuck Harris mirror. The only damage it had was a few scratches on the mirror proper, and the soft coating was scraped off the attachment part. Besides the general wonderfulness of Chuck Harris mirrors, even if new ones could still be easily had, one of the things that makes me so sad about losing that particular one is that it survived a crash that I might not have.


Like you, I'm a little skeptical about helmet mirrors and the extra torque and pressure they could place on the EPS liner in a crash. Most helmet manufacturers will tell you not to attach a mirror, out of liability concerns. But I don't know how real a concern this is. As far as sunglasses mirror, I'm not concerned at all.