Broke my mirror "cherry"!!!

[chilli]

Hit my first mirror whilst filtering last night. Couple of blokes in an Escort van. I was only doing about 2 mph, and thought I'd sail through...but no!! They were ok, just really ugly I think!!!

[julianb]

My 8 year old lad, scraped a mirror on my new bike, and tried to repair the damage himself with some 1200 grit wet and dry, and a tin of matt black aerosol paint before I found out.

He actually made a passable job of it, mind you it took ages to get the overspray off the rest of the bike!!!

Kids...

[sjtscott]

War wounds on the mirror are a sure sign of a seasoned bike commuter
Happends fairly infrequently to me now but every now and again a mistake happens. I use my mirror as a width detector anyway being the widest part of the bike and pretty much know just from looking if I can fit in the gap or not.
I had some guy recently in a X5 freak out at me cos I tapped his mirror with mine at no more than a couple of mph, no damage at all. In fact he was being so unreasonable about it I refused to applogise and when the traffic light went green gave him the finger and got the hell out of there (I do particularly like this positive about bikes in London). You do tend to get a particular 'type' of driver in those sort of vehicles.

[sporelife]

sjtscott said:

War wounds on the mirror are a sure sign of a seasoned bike commuter
Happends fairly infrequently to me now but every now and again a mistake happens.

Agree, got caught out myself the other morning filtering through traffic. There was a pickup truck with a steel mesh fence panel laid across in the rear. It was only at the last second I noticed part of a pole sticking out in my path, a quick wobble took the bike clear, but ended up collecting the mirror, taking out a nice chunk. When I looked back, the guy looked as shocked as I was, I mimed something resembling tying a rag to the protrudence, and rode off.