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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Turning your head should NOT cause you to turn the bicycle too. Try moving your hands in closer to the stem. Also, go to a schoolyard or someplace open nd free of motor traffic and practice turning your head whilst still keeping a straight line of travel.
I like either a helmet mounted mirror or my Take-A-Look glasses mounted mirror. I have either adjusted so that they are slightly above my line of sight directly forward but a glance into the mirror shows me what's coming up behind and to my left side.
The thing I really like about a glasses or helmet mounted mirror over a mirror on the bike itself is that in a turn I can turn my head and see what's behind me rather than having a view of some to my far left and not the road behind me.
Another advantage of the glasses or helmet mounted mirror is that I only need the one mirror and don't need to buy a mirror for each of my many bikes.
Cheers