Reverse vision glasses...

[Uniwitold]

Sombody mentioned of existence of this kind of glasses(?mirors incorporated). Unfortunately I was not succesful in finding the thread mentioning the subject.
May I ask for kind advice where to get such an appliance. In anticipation.
Uniwitold.

[Rowan]

You can get them from Unicycle.com. They come under the category of Unicycle Accessories, Eyewear, Rear-view mirrors.

[UniBrier]

These guys have one that sticks onto the lens.

http://www.cycleaware.com/index.asp

http://www.cycleaware.com/products/view-point.asp

[Mike Rocks]

Here's something different. It is a helmet from England which has a rear view mirror built into it.
Here is a link ot the site. http://www.reevu.com/

Rowan wrote:
> You can get them from 'Unicycle.com'
> (http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=367).

Links to the glasses mounting 3rd Eye. Also available in a h*lm*t
mounting version.

I uses a glasses mounting 3rd Eye on my recumbent (bike) and on my
Coker. I highly recommend it. Not sure it's what the OP was really
after, though. I think he wanted something where the outer edges of the
lenses on the inside are silvered. I bought something similar many
years ago from the jokes section of Boggle (a juggling shop that I
worked in when I was a student). I wouldn't recommend them for riding
in, and I don't know where you might find a pair now. (Of course, a
joke shope might be worth a look).

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Mike Rocks wrote:
> Here's something different. It is a helmet from England which has a
> rear view mirror built into it.
> Here is a link ot the site. http://www.reevu.com/

Unfortunately the viewing angle isn't great for unicycling. It's also
incredibly sweaty, as the mirror restricts the possibilities for
designing in vents.

Aarnold the Aardvark has one (which I believe he still wants to sell).
Searching Google for posts to rsu containing the word "Reevu" will
reveal a few thoughts:
http://tinyurl.com/lpom

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Recumbent cycle page: http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/recumbents/
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[Uniwitold]

TU very much Gents for the guidance re reverse mirror in the glases. Uniwitold.

[daino149]

While on a 13 mile ride the other day, I was wishing I had some sort of mirror. On my road bike, I used to have a mirror on the end of my handle bar. This worked well on my bike, but wouldn't work on my uni at all. I have tried the type of mirror, which attaches to your glasses, but it didn't work very well because of the vibration. The last mirror I tried was one that is glued to the inside of your riding glasses. These didn't work at all, mostly because of the wraparound nature of my Oaks.

The solution that I came up with was to hold a mirror. I was thinking that I could use the one that broke off of my bike when I dropped it. The mirror is intact and has a nice convex shape, which allows a greater field of view.

I haven't had a chance to test my idea, so I was wondering if anyone elsy has tried holding a mirror when they ride.

Daniel

[evilewan]

years ago one of my friends turned up a school with a pair of prisms from a pair of binoculars, if you held one in front of each eye the entire world became upside down and rightside left (rightside left, is its possible to say that?)
it was impossible to avoid walking into stuff and even turning arround became realy confusing.

using these whilst unicycling would be an intersting challenge, perhaps it would make riding a two wheeler easier?

when i saw this thread i though thats what you were talking about.

[johnfoss]

I'm not sure if this thread is about rear-view mirrors or not either, but here's what I use:
http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=367

For Daino, if you tried one of these and there was too much vibration, it wasn't a good mirror set. Obviously it has to hold still to work. This one takes a little playing around with to find the right position, then it works for any riding position. I keep a separate pair of sunglasses with the mirror on it just for my Coker rides, so I don't have to keep re-adjusting the mirror.

It makes me feel a lot more comfortable when riding around traffic, which part of my commute is. Note: if you ride on the right side of the road (i.e. most places besides the UK), the mirror should be attached on the left side of your glasses.

[Adrian]

Always wondered how safe it is to mount a mirror right next to your eye in this fashion. Even assuming the mirror is shatterproof etc., I'd've imagined hitting it at the right angle would force the mounting arm into your eye.

Obviously you're less prone to UPDing though, because you don't have to look back.

[john_childs]

Originally posted by Adrian
Always wondered how safe it is to mount a mirror right next to your eye in this fashion. Even assuming the mirror is shatterproof etc., I'd've imagined hitting it at the right angle would force the mounting arm into your eye.

Obviously you're less prone to UPDing though, because you don't have to look back.

I used a third eye mirror on my glasses back when I was a roadie (road bicyclist). The mirror works great and makes it MUCH safer to ride on the side of the road next to traffic. When I was riding my road bike I wouldn't go on a ride without the mirror and a helmet. I really like being able to know when a semi truck is going to pass me or if a car is drifting off the side of the road, if a car is moving over when they pass or are hugging the fog line, etc. Those are all critical things to keeping you alive when playing in traffic on a road bike.

I haven't used the mirror while riding my Coker because I don't ride the Coker on the road with traffic. All my Coker riding is on bike trails. But if I do get the crazy urge to play in traffic with my Coker I'll use the Third Eye mirror.

The mirror is stable as long as your glasses fit snugly. The image in the mirror doesn't bounce around too much. There are helmet mounted mirrors that stick on your helmet rather than clip on to your glasses. The helmet mounted ones are more wiggly because the helmet moves around more than your glasses do so the image in the helmet mounted mirrors does bounce around more.

The mirror may be a little tricky on a uni because a lot of people bob their head as they ride. On a road bike your head is still and steady so the image in the mirror will also be still and steady. I think I'll have to try the mirror on the Coker once just to see what it's like and see if I bob my head a lot.

I wouldn't use the mirror on a muni or a mountain bike where you are more likely to crash on your helmet. Endos on a MTB are very common. On a road uni (like the Coker) or a road bike you are not going to crash on to your head so there is very little danger of the mirror arm getting poked in your eye. Anyways, the mirror arm mount is back behind your eye closer to your temple so it would take a pretty weird crash to get it to poke in your eye anyways.

[Klaas Bil]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:51:03 -0500, evilewan <evilewan.t418b@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:

>years ago one of my friends turned up a school with a pair of prisms
>from a pair of binoculars, if you held one in front of each eye the
>entire world became upside down and rightside left (rightside left, is
>its possible to say that?)

I have read that if you have them before your eyes for a couple of days (mounted in a spectacle frame), then the image-processing software in your brain magically rotates the image so that it becomes normal again. Mind you that on your retina, the image of the world IS actually upside down so the turning back has already been done once so to speak.

Klaas Bil

(Reposted once more because after some 3 hours I get impatient when a post isn't relayed. It just should be.)

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:51:03 -0500, evilewan
<evilewan.t418b@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:

>years ago one of my friends turned up a school with a pair of prisms
>from a pair of binoculars, if you held one in front of each eye the
>entire world became upside down and rightside left (rightside left, is
>its possible to say that?)

I have read that if you have them before your eyes for a couple of
days (mounted in a spectacle frame), then the image-processing
software in your brain magically rotates the image so that it becomes
normal again. Mind you that on your retina, the image of the world IS
actually upside down so the turning back has already been done once so
to speak.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
--
I go a sort of ok speed on my Coker... - Roger Davies

[daino149]

Originally posted by Klaas Bil

I have read that if you have them before your eyes for a couple of
days (mounted in a spectacle frame), then the image-processing
software in your brain magically rotates the image so that it becomes
normal again. Mind you that on your retina, the image of the world IS
actually upside down so the turning back has already been done once so
to speak.

That reminds me of an article I read in a Wired Magazine that talked about some guy that made this machine that would take the image from a camera and transfer it to your tongue via a matrix of electrodes. Apparently it doesn't matter if the image is coming from your eyes or somewhere else, your brain will let you see it. I don't have the article on me now, but I remember a doc being quoted saying something like, it doesn't matter if it's coming from your eyes or your tongue, a nerve spike is a nerve spike.


They were looking to use this to help the blind "see" and to help pilots get information from their instruments without having to look down.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could be unicycling and be able to "see" what's going on in back of you via a camera and your tongue?

Daniel