Item Package Dimensions L x W x H | 7.64 x 3.39 x 0.43 inches |
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Package Weight | 0.01 Kilograms |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 7.65 x 3.4 x 0.65 inches |
Item Weight | 0.01 Kilograms |
Brand Name | Bike Peddler |
Country of Origin | United States |
Color | SILVER |
Material | Acrylic |
Suggested Users | unisex |
Number of Items | 5 |
Manufacturer | Take A Look |
Part Number | 300 |
Model Year | 2012 |
Size | Compact |
Sport Type | Cycling |
Take A Look Cycling Eyeglass Mirror
Auto Part Position | Left, Right |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 7.65 x 3.4 x 0.65 inches |
Brand | Bike Peddler |
Color | SILVER |
Item Weight | 0.01 Kilograms |
Size | Compact |
Operation Mode | Manual |
Shape | Rectangular |
Lens Curvature Description | Convex |
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About this item
- Note: This mirror is designed to work only on eyeglasses or helmet visors and to clamp on to the arm of standard eyeglasses.
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From the manufacturer
The mirrors attach to many styles and shapes of glasses and helmets. Not only do they work great but their durable stainless steel and brass construction with optically correct acrylic mirrors come with a life time guarantee!
Bike Peddler Take A Look Cycling Eyeglass Mirror
Take a Look Mirrors are some of the most popular and best selling cycling mirrors on the market! The key to their success is the unique combination of versatility and quality construction. Due to the three pivot points on the mirror cyclists are able to ride safely and enjoy a wide field of vision with little head movement or eyestrain.
- Frameless acrylic mirror provides wide uninterrupted field of vision; mirror surface measures 1 - 7/16 inches x 1- 1/16 inches
- Mirror face adjusts by rotating it 90° from the wire; fore and aft rotations offer fine-angle adjustments
- Three-point attachment system adjusts for a secure fit without vibration and can be attached to either your eye glasses or helmet visor
Product Description
Unique and extremely usable, the Bike Peddler Take A Look Cycling cyclist's mirror easily fits on helmet visors and eyeglasses. With three pivot points for maximum adjustment, the mirror face is adjusted by rotating it at a 90-degree angle from the wire. The mirror rotates fore and aft for fine angle adjustments. An ideal tool to keep an eye on traffic approaching from behind, the frameless acrylic mirror provides a wide, uninterrupted field of vision. For added adjustment, the mirror is designed to fit on both the right or left side, and its 3-point attachment system adjusts for a secure fit without vibration. Available in two sizes: compact, which extends 50 millimeters and has a mirror size of 20x37 millimeters (HxW) and normal, which extends 85 millimeters and has a mirror size of 28x37 millimeters (HxW). Made in the USA, this mirror is backed by a manufacturer's unconditional guarantee. Whether you choose to use your mirror on a helmet or on eyeglasses, it can be adjusted easily to allow you to see behind you with minimal head movement or eye strain. Once properly adjusted, you will have a clear and accurate view of the road behind you.
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ASIN | B000AO7ETQ |
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Customer Reviews |
4.3 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #8,863 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors) #11 in Bike Mirrors #15 in Kids' Bike Accessories |
Date First Available | August 1, 2005 |
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Customers like the durability, stability, and adjustability of the vehicle mirror. For example, they mention it's sturdy, holds its position well, and is easy to adjust with one hand. Customers are also impresseded with the quality, saying it'll work well and be functional. That said, opinions are mixed on the size.
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Customers like the quality of the vehicle mirror. For example, they say it's a great product, robust, and thoughtfully designed. Some say it performs flawlessly, is very functional, and is superior to low-mounted mirrors. That said, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...The Original Take A Look mirror is the best bike mirror of any type that I've used in a half century of cycling - until I lost mine and I took a..." Read more
"...me, for trafficking pavement fraught with peril, it really is very functional and superior to low mounted, vibration prone bar mirrors...." Read more
"...I had to return it but it was well made and the mirror had excellent reflection." Read more
"...It's so light I don't even feel it. Good buy." Read more
Customers like the adjustability of the mirror. They say it's easy to adjust the mirror to get a good field of view, adjusts on several axes, and is easy to fine-tune with one hand while riding. The adjustments are snug and the mirror is hightly adjustable, allowing it to adapt to slight head turns. The mount is sturdy, and the metal arm adjusts smoothly and easily.
"...They adjust smoothly, hold their adjustment well, and thanks to the front-surfaced acrylic mirror, they give me an excellent, clear image...." Read more
"...mounting arm is very durable in this respect, and repetition will quicken the adjustments...." Read more
"...It grips my glasses securely, has a wide field of vision, and is very adjustable. It's so light I don't even feel it. Good buy." Read more
"...Also, while it's true that it's easily adjusted (to any angle) that doesn't resolve the inherent problems...." Read more
Customers like the visibility of the mirror. They say it provides a good view astern, has an incredibly huge field of view, and is easy to adjust. The mirror is clear and has an excellent adjust ability.
"...to the front-surfaced acrylic mirror, they give me an excellent, clear image...." Read more
"...Meaning you can adjust the mirror anywhere you want...." Read more
"...It grips my glasses securely, has a wide field of vision, and is very adjustable. It's so light I don't even feel it. Good buy." Read more
"...The mirror can be adjusted in several ways and the settings can be easily "tweaked" while riding...." Read more
Customers like the ease of installation of the vehicle mirror. They mention that it's easy to move it to whatever orientation they like, put on or off the glasses, and that it mounts on eyeglasses easily. Some say that the mirror is simple and well-thought out, without useless complexity or expense.
"...Satisfied? Need more?...These mirrors are a simple, but elegant and extremely flexible design, well executed with rugged, quality..." Read more
"...that vibrate and bounce and eventually fall off, this little mirror attaches very well. It's simply made but well thought out and works well...." Read more
"...It can be hard to mount on a helmet; I use the visor and a couple of zip ties to secure it...." Read more
"...what the cheap pair did, but these look better, feel more sturdy, mount easier and best of all there is no jiggling - it's a solid view at a glance...." Read more
Customers like the durability of the mirror. They mention that it is sturdy, the mirror mounting arm is very durable, and the mirror itself is made quite well. They also say that it lasts a very long time, is top notch quality, and has a large field of view.
"...simple, but elegant and extremely flexible design, well executed with rugged, quality materials and flawless assembly...." Read more
"...This is not a huge problem, the mirror mounting arm is very durable in this respect, and repetition will quicken the adjustments...." Read more
"...I had to return it but it was well made and the mirror had excellent reflection." Read more
"...I've had zero issues with stability or it detaching outside of the one time it detached from my Hemet but I do believe that's because it hangs..." Read more
Customers like the stability of the vehicle mirror. They say that it holds its position well, stays perfectly while road cycling, and is secure throughout their ride. They also mention that the mirror can be mounted very securely and that it provides a more stable view than when mounted to their helmet. Some say that the plastic pads on the metal arms of the eyeglass stay in place, providing a semi-permanent attachment to their headgear.
"...It hadn't budged. These mirrors can be mounted very securely.* "Doesn't work on the right side"..." Read more
"...is mounted on the temple piece of my glasses, the reflected image is acceptably stable. Can't explain why, it just works for me...." Read more
"...sturdy, mount easier and best of all there is no jiggling - it's a solid view at a glance. I wish I would have had these a long time ago...." Read more
"...and where this Bike Peddler mirror mounts on my helmet, it forces my eyeballs to move about as far as they can in their sockets to look in the..." Read more
Customers like the safety of the mirror. They say it significantly increases their safety, is an indispensable piece of safety gear, and works to keep them safe. Customers also say it gives them a sense of security and has saved them from vehicle contact, serious injury or death.
"This is a great accessory for bicycle safety. I tried the mirrors that fasten to handlebars first and found they just did not work well enough...." Read more
"...A great safety feature for commuting by bike." Read more
"...As for mounting to the hat rim - the hat is a more protective environment, easy to grab and put on - anyway, it would be a good option...." Read more
"...this mirror allows me to take the full lane at times and significantly increases my safety...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the size of the vehicle mirror. Some mention that it's a nice size and is OPTICAL, not convex. They also say that the small size actually makes it less obtrusive, both for function and for aesthetics. However, others say that it is pretty small and the field of view it provides fairly limited.
"...You're not supposed to focus on the mirror. Seriously...." Read more
"...Like other reviewers I find this mirror works best attached to your sunglasses. I've tried both and for me the helmet doesn't work as well...." Read more
"...The mirror, being so small, requires you to have your eyes and head in just the right (sweet) spot to work as designed...." Read more
"...It is large enough to see behind you, but small and light enough not to be an issue...." Read more
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The Original Take A Look mirror is the best bike mirror of any type that I've used in a half century of cycling - until I lost mine and I took a chance on ordering the Compact - and it's better.
Satisfied? Need more?...
These mirrors are a simple, but elegant and extremely flexible design, well executed with rugged, quality materials and flawless assembly. They adjust smoothly, hold their adjustment well, and thanks to the front-surfaced acrylic mirror, they give me an excellent, clear image. Plus, they're backed 100%, forever, for any reason by the company that manufactures them in the U.S. Remember when that's what people expected from an American company? Well, the folks at Bike Peddler do.
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Reading some of the negative reviews, I've come to suspect that some folks should not be entrusted with the safe and competent operation of a pair of shoelaces.
Having noted that, there are some pervasive, and therefore possibly valid misconceptions, number 1 being:
* "I can't focus on the mirror because it's too close to my eye."
Note that this is less a criticism of the Take A Look mirror, than of all mirrors of this type.
You're not supposed to focus on the mirror. Seriously. if you're focused on something an inch or two from your cornea, you can't be focused on something fifty feet behind you. Consider this mirror, for example, the Cycleaware Viewpoint Eyewear Mirror, Round . I promise, very few humans on the planet can focus on something literally an eyelash away from their cornea. Yet many people use the CycleAware type of mirror successfully. If you can see fifty feet in front of you, then you can see fifty feet behind you using any optically correct mirror however close to your eye.
* "The mirror is too small"
Nope. The mirror on the Take A Look is comparable in size to other mirrors of its type, and larger than many. Yes, as the old saying goes, size matters - but in the case of mirrors, distance also matters. A small mirror close to your eyes (as in the CycleAware mirror noted above) provides the same field of view as a larger mirror further from your eyes, . Again, this is more a general objection to all head-mounted mirrors, rather than specific to the Take A Look mirror.
* "Ball joint mirrors are more adjustable"
In what way? The Take A Look mirror has a full 360 degrees of rotation in three different axes. A ball joint, by definition, can only have 360 degree rotation in one axis, and considerably less than 180 degrees in any other axis, or you pop it out of the socket. Your hip is a ball joint. Can you rotate it 360 degrees in any direction? Add to that the fact that the stainless rod in the Take A Look mirror can be bent as desired, something impossible with plastic-framed mirrors, and the Take A Look is the most flexible design I've seen.
* "This mirror vibrates too much"
Well, that's actually your head vibrating, which is tricky, because your head is the most vibration resistant mounting point for a mirror on your bike. All vibration comes from the interaction of your bike and the surface you're riding on. Your body provides multiple vibration dampeners, from your tush cushion, to your lumbar, thoracic and cervical vertebrae, and from your wrists, elbows and shoulders. If your head is vibrating too much to have a usable image, then I can pretty much guarantee any other mount point on your bike is going to be vibrating worse.
* "Can't mount / falls off"
Okay. I don't get that. The mounting system isn't exactly nuclear physics, but... maybe a picture is worth a thousand words here. Google "Take A Look mirror" and clck on "images" and you'll see many examples of mounting this mirror. And, especially for helmet mounting, go to YouTube and search "Take-A-Look mirror" and there's at least one good video showing helmet mounting options. Helmet mounting may benefit from the Bike Peddler Take A Look Cycling Eyeglass Mirror Helmet Adaptor Kit . And keep in mind, you're allowed to adjust the tension on the mount by putting more or less bend in the middle prong of the mount. I've had my glasses knocked off my head with the mirror attached, and that's exactly how I picked them up, with the mirror attached. It hadn't budged. These mirrors can be mounted very securely.
* "Doesn't work on the right side"
Again, this is a very flexible system. Check out the YouTube video I mentioned above, where they specifically address right-side mounting. In addition, the Compact model, which I now prefer, has a hidden alter-ego. The pivot hole on the Compact mirror is drilled all the way through. This means that you can work the mirror off the stainless pivot rod, flip the mirror, re-insert the rod into the opposite end of the pivot hole, apply a reverse bend to the middle prong of the mount, and you have, pardon the expression, an exact mirror image of the mirror you started with.
* "A bigger handlebar mirror would be better"
Hmmm. Better in what way? And how much bigger? Well, it's pretty simple to find out. I put on my Take A Look Compact mirror, held a ruler next to my handlebars, and checked to see how big a handlebar mirror would have to be to cover the same visual field. It's basic optical geometry. About seven inches. Seen any seven-inch handlebar mirrors lately? If you move the mirror to your handlebars, you have three choices; make the mirror huge to achieve the same field of view. Make the mirror tolerably small, but cut the field of view. Make the mirror convex and distort the field of view.
Most manufacturers choose the convex method. Yes, it gives an artificially larger field of view. But convex mirrors don't relate well to your brain, which is used to seeing objects at the distance you are focused on. That distortion is problematic enough that motor vehicles using convex mirrors are required by federal law to carry the following warning: "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear".
I don't want to guess how much closer that object is. I want to look in an optically correct, flat mirror and know, instantly and instinctively how far behind me that F150 is, with the projecting trailer mirrors that are about to smack me in the back of the head.
Other "cons" to handlebar mirrors:
They break. Sooner or later, your kid will knock your bike over in the garage, or some yahoo will yank their bike out of the rack next to yours, bumping your mirror, or you'll ding it against a doorway carrying it into your apartment, or it'll get mishandled loading it or unloading it into a vehicle.
They only point where your handlebars allow them to point. Not so bad if you only cycle in a straight line, but not so great if your cycling world has any corners or curves. With the Take A Look mirror, the mirror points wherever I need it to point, when I need it.
They're always on your bike. Again, fine - unless you borrow a friend's bike. Or ride your kid's bike. Or walk the dog on the path at night and want to see who's coming up behind you. Or get stuck with the oars out fishing with your buddy in his row-boat.
The Take A Look mirrors are superior in all those cases.
* "Old folks can't use these mirrors"
News to me. I'm kind of an old guy, pushing sixty. I struggle to focus on anything much closer than my knees. I had zero chance of focusing on my Original Take A Look Mirror, and less than zero chance of focusing on the Compact mirror I just bought. Which is fine. As I said above - if you're focusing on the mirror, you're doing it wrong. I can see in front of me anything from a few feet to infinity clearly, and have the same ability to see clearly behind me using these mirrors.
Summary:
Sheesh. You need a summary after all that? Here's my summary - just get one already.
UPDATE 10/19/2015: Still my favorite mirror. I just bought another one. (So far, these mirrors aren't loss or theft-proof - but that's kind of a user problem.)
To J. Shih "javafuel" and all the other reviewers who expressed similar opinions: If the mirror is at the edge of periheral vision and you are straining to twist your eyeball (in it's socket) to the left and have to cover one eye to focus, then you have the mirror adjusted too far "out" (away from your head) in an effort to try and see "everything" behind your head. Again, you can't make this mirror do what YOU want it to do ... it is you who has to give in and to adjust to the way the mirror is designed.
The rods and cones (at the rear of the inside of your eyeball) that the lens of your eye sends an image to can only produce a focused and detailed image near the center of the back of your eye (straight-on binocular view). Human eyes are not able to focus sharp detail in the perepheral range of vision (i.e. when you rotate your eyeball to the extreem left in an effort to try and focus on a tiny mirror that is adjusted too far out). To try and be more clear, human peripheral vision evolved to detect motion ONLY which would then alert us a possible danger and make us turn our head to look straight at the detected motion with a dead-on front binocular-focused gaze. Only herbivores can see detail sideways because their eyes are mounted on the sides of their heads.
You can't make this mirror work like a car's rear view mirror mounted on the windshield. That mirror is a foot or more away from you and up and off to the right side without your head being an obstruction. With that setup, the human eye CAN see complete detail behind. Also note that a car's side mounted rear view mirror, similar to the TaL mirror, does not actually see behind & around the car ... that view is blocked by the side of your car. ... just like the TaL mirror's field of reflection is blocked by the side of your head (insert block-head joke here). So you must manually custom-bend the mounting arm of the TaL mirror so that the reflective surface of the mirror is positioned to the close-in front-left of your head (not way out!) and within a visual field allowing for normal, unstrained eye socket rotation and within the normal field-range of forward looking, binocular vision, thus allowing for quick-glace, detailed eye focus on the mirror surface. (run-on sentence or what?!) This places the mirror much more in front of your face than most people imagine before they have worked with it.
Now, here's the key: when standing "at attention", with good posture and looking straight-on into a large wall-mounted vanity mirror, a functional (as described above) adjustment places the rectangle of the mirror (+/-) only about an inch to the left and and inch above the left corner of your left eyeball. You can check this, as an adjustment starting point, in your vanity mirror. Each person will make their own road adjustments over a period of a week or more.
Surprised? Don't like that? ... go ahead, spend a month forcing the mirror to do what you want. You'll either anger and sell it on craigslist or come to terms. Read on ...
OK, are you ready for more? You don't need to see behind you. Suprised again? For the most part, that which is directly behind you is just the bike lane you are on. If you are actually riding in a city lane rather than off to the right, then just rotate your head and scan often. For most city riders, the stationary reflective area that you always need to view with a flick-glace is (using clock coordinates) about 00:33 - 00:40. That is the area of danger i.e. cars turning right or your need to change lanes (one at a time) to the far-left lane in order to make a city left turn onto another road. You can also rotate your head to mirror-scan beyond the 00:40 field occasionally, if need arises, but for the most part, it doesn't matter much what is happening in that area.
To continue my reflections (yuk), YES!, OF COURSE! you have to rise above your crouched racing bar position to view the rear! It's hard for me to understand how some of the reviewers expected that they would be able to see right through their own heads or see through their bodies when they are leaning forward??? The mirror is not way up on a windshield mounting; it's two to three bloody inches from your eyeball for heaven's sake! You don't need an "A" in trigonometry to figure that one out ... it's that control thing again. ;-) So whether you are rising up from a crouch or are already up on a hybrid straight bar, the mirror adjustment should be such that the reflections of your cheek, neckline and shoulders are visible on the inner & lower edges of the reflective surface ... but not occupying too much of the mirror's reflective surface area ... like when you glance quickly sideways at the side mirror on a car, it should be pre-adjusted to just catch a reflection of the edge of the car. So, when looking forward at the road, without rotating your head to either side, your stationary visual "tunnel" angle (00:33 - 00:40) backwards will be above your shoulder line and to the left of your neck & cheek . Of course from that "static" view, you can then rotate your head to scan the rest of your rear. Hope that's clear. And as far as a backpack obscuring view, just adjust the pack's straps so the pack compartment is lower down on your back.
So, to elaborate on the objections of a couple of reviewers, yes, part of the mirror's reflection is going to catch some of your shoulder and part of your ear, helmet strap and a bit of your cheek. This leaves about 3/5 of the mirror's area for rear view. An advantage of this is that you can count on these self reflection positions within the "frame" of the mirror as your quick-adjustment "way points" when you clip your mirror to your glasses or helmet before you jump on your bike. The remaining 3/5 of reflective surface area is more than adequate because the mirror, being two to three inches from your eyeball, reflects an image that your brain adjusts to seeing as "lifesized".
Now I'll deal with what I call "UpScope". An experienced city traffic rider doesn't just plow through the streets leaning down for aerodynamics. Tour fer sure de Death that! A city-rider who wants to enjoy a long life "surfaces" often to "giraffe-view" the traffic environment ... that's when you also use the mirror to take a look (punny yah?) at the wider behind by rotating your head to scan the whole area of your rear traffic conditions. If this is difficult with your rig, consider equipping yourself with bar ends, an adjustable angle stem, some kind of riser-support or check out those lovely Ergon GC3-L Bar End Grips. Ergo-line your sys because you can't be messing around over-twisting / over-arching your neck, or trying to focus on the mirror that is out in your periferal vision range or covering one eye etc. ... you're movin wit da flow baby ... you need a quick glace to tell you if you're in a safe-zone or a peril-zone. Always remember that an automobile's main objective is to kill you.
I may edit more info to this comment as I become more experienced with the mirror. The only other thing I can think of to add now is that I have better results with the TaL mirror mounted to the temple piece (arm) of my glasses or sunglasses. For about two weeks, I did try-out mounting it on my helmet visor. My helmet, BTW, is the 661 "Recon". I assumed that no matter which glasses I wore, day or night, the mirror would stay in the same position on the helmet with no need for readjustment. Well, that didn't work out so well for a couple of reasons. The mirror would always get bumped: by me, or in the elevator, or when I set the helmet down etc., etc. But the mirror did require less adjustment time when helmet mounted rather than when switching it to different eyeglasses. This is because each time you mount the mirror on a different "platform" it may not be just the easily adjusted swing and tilt movements that have to be adjusted. Unless the angles and thicknesses of the temples of your various glasses & sunglasses frames are similar, it is likely that you will have to manually bend-adjust the actual arm and/or the three black-prong temple grip of the mirror up or down, or in or out a bit ... and after that, you will fine-adjust the TaL's 3-way swing and tilt function. This is not a huge problem, the mirror mounting arm is very durable in this respect, and repetition will quicken the adjustments. But it's a few seconds of delay from just jumping on your bike and taking off.
The other reason that I don't care for the (my) helmet visor mounting is that all the roughness of the road pavement passed up through my 700/23c's, up through my skeleton to my head and out to the visor which caused a constant acute mini-quiver vibration on the mirror's reflective surface. Of course, some road surfaces are worse than others but at it's worst, for example, I could see that there was a car behind me and I could also make out that car's daytime running lights, but I could not clearly determine whether the car had it's right turn-signal blinking because the rear view image was wriggling, dancing and bouncing around so much (hope that was a clear description). I have labeled it the "tuning fork effect". Like a tuning fork has almost no vibration at the gripping end but vibrates like crazy out on the tone-making end. Be aware that this is just my experience and maybe some of you have more vibration buffered skeletons or helmet visors than me ... ;-)
On the other hand, when the mirror is mounted on the temple piece of my glasses, the reflected image is acceptably stable. Can't explain why, it just works for me. So, my solution is that I bought three Take-a-Look mirrors for each of my primary eyeglasses & shades. The retail stores want $16 - $20 but if Amazon wants to sell it for 11.99, I guess I can splurge a bit. So now, this way, each mirror is mated to a particular pair of glasses and I only do a quick swing/tilt/yaw adjust (using my own reflected cheek & shoulder "way points" as described above) when I attach the mirror on my glasses. I quickly take the mirror off when I'm not riding. They just CAN'T be worn when you walk into a store etc. ... there IS a dork factor here! I remove the mirror and put it in my shirt pocket or other ... A small, hard carry case would be nice, but that's just another bit of bulk to ride with.
Hope the review helped you all and for the record, I'm just a city-rider and don't work for or sell the TaL mirrors. I just saw such a high percentage of misconceptions in these 170 reviews that I thought I'd add a "few" words myself.
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024