One thing I've noticed while riding my motorbike back at home is that the wing-mirrors are entirely rubbish. They can only be described as useless. Little to no adjustment, see 90% of my shoulder and 10% of the road, and no idea of telling how much traffic you're holding up as you trundle along.
This can be easily fixed; change the wing mirrors to bar ends, flip them upside down and swap them over etc., but nothing gets rid of the amount of blind spot that comes with riding a motorcycle.
That's where 'the lifesaver' comes in. A final check over your left or right shoulder before changing direction to make sure no cars, cyclists, trucks or anything else is about to do something stupid at possible risk to you. Even then, it means taking your eyes off what's ahead of you, and although it's only for a split second, in that time everything could change.
Blindspot sensors are becoming more and more common in cars. Quite often when you're overtaking a vehicle on the motorway, you'll spot a little orange light come on in their driver-side wing mirror to notify the driver that you're there. Somehow, this concept has never really caught on in the motorcycle industry, with only a few large manufacturers tackling it back in 2015, but it never really leading anywhere.
BMW Motorrad was the first major manufacturer to implement what they call SVA (Side View Assist) into one of their mopeds, closely followed by KTM. So far, however, there aren't any kits on the market that allow you to fit BSD (Blind Spot Detection) or SVA to any motorbike. This concept is something that I'd like to look further into but might prove to be a little too complicated for me. I'm not so great with coding or designing technology, so we'll see how it goes.
That's it for today's blog - keeping it sort and sweet.
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iSAWcompany. (2017) Mopeds Scooters Vespa. Available at: https://pixabay.com/photos/mopeds-scooters-vespa-piaggio-3798183/ (Accessed:29/11/2019).
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