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Old 15th July 2008, 12:56
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Originally Posted by flecc View Post
On concerns about cycling safety, mainly it's the appalling state of road maintenance.

Although I'm in a London borough, traffic doesn't worry me much since I can assert and dominate the road space I need as easily as a 4 x 4, it's just confidence. The absolute essential to that being effective though is a good rear view mirror so that I have all round vision. Blind people wouldn't be safe cycling, and neither is a person without a mirror so 50% blind.
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But..What about people with poor eyesight, that canīt really see whatīs on the mirror and get distracted trying to make out if thereīs anything looming in it? Is it really useful for these people?
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