Motorcycles in your bus lane

I don't really want to do that thing where you pick apart people's words...but I'm going to.

You said you have to keep looking over your shoulder, and sometimes in between the last time you last did it and the next time you have to react puts you endanger because you cant hear things coming.

I'm saying if you add wing mirrors it will help to minimise that problem.

Are you saying that bicycles need to have mirror in order to work with the motorcyclists?

No. It will help if you find them creeping up on you without you noticing.

Also the downside with mirror is that you won't look back often

Pretty flawed argument IMO. With a mirror you don't need to look back you just need to check your blind spots. Anyone who doesn't check their blindspots isnt driving/riding/cycling safely. I just don't beleive those ppl would be affected either way.

However I'll be having a mirror when I go to South America where it'll be quite useful especially between Colombia and Chile.

Errr... right?

On a more positive note Columbia > Chile. Awesome. Just be careful with the altitude, you need to work up to it. I've been toying with the idea of cyclin round lake titikaka.