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Old 02-24-16, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94
I'm the opposite, I can't live without my helmet mirror. It gives you a much larger field of view than trying to see a small mirror several feet away from your face.

I'll try to take some pics like this maybe this weekend, hopefully on all 3 of my bikes.
Cool, I look forward to seeing them.

As far as the mirror thing is concerned, I guess it's all about what you are used to. I concede your point about the wider FOV, but after almost 40 years on motorbikes, I don't see myself changing anything now. A question: If I have to use reading glasses to see anything close up, would that rule out the helmet mirror anyway? Or is it some kind of tricky physics thing, where the focal length is extended by the mirror? Just curious...
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