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Best technique for taking off a cage mirror?

I guess nobody was ever taught two wrong's don't make a right. Geez even little kids know that, but I guess that's the thought level of earlier 20 yr olds. I know it was for me :laughing
 
Personally, I"d just lure her/him over until they hit the truck in the next lane and let them take THAT trucks mirror off, thereby letting a truck driver then be able to have recourse against her and get to verbally abuse her while you go on about your day.


But that's just me.
 
Port4mance said:
I guess nobody was ever taught two wrong's don't make a right.
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No but three rights do make a left which is pretty much the only way you *can* turn left in most parts of S.F. these days. Oh yeah, what was the topic again? The problem with trying to take a mirror off of a moving car is very similar to the problem of trying to steal a wallet from a 'nam vet. It is highly not recommended. It usualy ends up with a bunch of children in a school bus that witnessed the event who go home tell stories to their friends and those stories always end up with "...and the head was still in the helmet..."
 
I almost puched some truck's side mirror riding home one day. Right before I was gonna do it, I checked my own mirrors. There was a another bike aways back. Not wanting to piss off the cage where he would maybe do something to the other rider, I let it go. When the 2nd MC passed me it was a CHP motor unit.

Don't do it. Give 'em the finger and ride away.
 
don't even bother

mirror=$125
your life= more than that

kinda dumb logic, huh?

unless they did it ON PURPOSE, I don't even fucking care.

and if they did, I'm with the guy above, and I'm going after THEM, not their fucking car.
 
goose said:
It usualy ends up with a bunch of children in a school bus that witnessed the event who go home tell stories to their friends and those stories always end up with "...and the head was still in the helmet..."
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:laughing :thumbup
 
Might take a trick seen few cruiser bikers use. They have an aluminum bat strapped to the bike. Can easily grab and release it form the side of the seat. Question is why stop at a mirror when so equipt. Side windows, front winshield, hood, roof, side panels. Keep it clean of finger prints, toss it through the window when through.
 
listen, it's not cool to take off a cager's mirror. Some people here get off on it, but they don't realize that it's just doing more harm than good.

Do YOURSELF a favor and forget about anything that happens to you. Just pretend it's an accident and move on. Most of the time people "do stuff" to a rider it's on accident . Most of us are so patheticallly insecure we take it as a "threat on our lives" that "someone tried to kill us" i say BS.

don't get yourself in a situation you can't control. And please don't put another car on the road that wants to REALLY hurt us.

it's not cool.
 
-> you take the mirror out.
-> Cager takes you out
Who writes the thread describing details of your success :confused
 
If you can't handle the "life flashing experience", then you shouldn't be on a bike. Accept it..and move on or you'll hurt yourself.
 
Engel-07 said:
If you can't handle the "life flashing experience", then you shouldn't be on a bike. Accept it..and move on or you'll hurt yourself.
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+1.
 
was talking with the bouncer at a bar i frequent. hes been riding for years.. me i just started. one thing he said stands out...

good thing you started to ride a bit later in life, when your minds not quite there, you can really fck yourself over.
 
Not a good idea to take out somebody's side mirrors.

Unless the driver realizes the seriousness of driving unattentive and what could have happend because of it, giving the bird, taking the mirrors off, etc, won't make the person change their driving behavior. In fact it will just angry the person and cause him/her to drive rectless and potentially causing an accident/hurt someone. You see, road rage is a chain reaction (domino effect). It begins with someone driving unattentive and makes a mistake, this angers the victim, the victim is upset and retaliate, the driver is now angry because of the retaliation, drives rectless because he/she also feels the need to vent, this upset other motorists in the process, and so they feel the need to vent as well...then it just goes on and on...spreading like wild fire. A viscious cycle. Unless the victim takes that negative energy and "bottles" it, it will just go around.

Oh, if you take his/her mirror off you just gave the driver the perfect "excuse" to cut people off, drive like a bonehead, etc. Isn't that just the opposite of what you want to achieve?
 
Billy Lane puts a hammer loop on all of his choppers for this purpose. It's an old school thing I guess, but back then people weren't like they are now. Don't do it.
 
Mickey_D100 said:
Everyone, keep the line moving, move along please . . . don't feed the trolls.
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*Finally* someone figured out this was a troll. I'm the butt-monkey who started the thread. I was tired of reading about all the "mirror-ectomies"...I thought I'd call them out. It's been somewhat amusing reading the responses.

For the record, I've never felt the temptation to take out a mirror. Even yesterday, when I was almost flattened by an SUV (of course), I just caught my breath and went on with my day...a little happier to be alive!

If I could find an option to delete this thread, I would. It lost the amusement factor about 2 pages ago.
 
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