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SteveB007
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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:12 am Post subject: KRS mirrors |
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Greetings all,
I am planning to put a set of mirror tethers on the 93 KRS. What is the technique to remove the mirrors....(I hear that they just 'pop' off?)
Thanks,
Steve in Santa Fe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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GRab the outer end and pull them back. They'll pop right off.
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SteveB007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Snap off to make them more crash damage resistant, I suppose? Or Not...
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jpberens1994K1100RS
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject: mirrors |
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Without the leashes though, more damage to the VERY expensive mirror.
The bottom of mine looks like some one playes friggin shuffle board with them. They are all touched up & all, but still ! Heck, I'd liek to coat them with Line X truck bed liner ALA Drake, but have not got around to it.
The roads around SE WI are so beat to heck from the winter that I had to resort to a bungee cord inside the mirror. Tied it to the mirror signal frame, then through the hole in the fairing mount, then wound it around the mount in there. Kinde of a PITA, but I cannot be pulling off when they keep coming loose.
Has enough snap to hold the mirror, but it will roll over if the bike gets knocked down or god forbid I drop it.
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Shoganai
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: KRS mirrors |
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| SteveB007 wrote: | What is the technique to remove the mirrors....(I hear that they just 'pop' off?)
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Technique #1
Bump the mirror with any part of your body while doing anything near the bike. Works everytime.  DAMHIK
Technique #2
Drop the bike on any surface at any speed including just parking it on soft ground overnight. Works everytime.  DAMHIK
Yes, it does make them more crash worthy in that the force applied to the mirror is not transmitted to the fairing thus cracking said fairing.
Smart eh?
Putting then back on smoothly takes partice. FWIW I've got it down pat. 
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Jim
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: Re: mirrors |
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Don't know if you have an RS or an LT - helps if you make that info part of your sig. If you have an RS, the "snaps" that hold the mirror on are replaceable. If you have an LT, they are not.
| jpberens1994K1100RS wrote: | Without the leashes though, more damage to the VERY expensive mirror.
Kinde of a PITA, but I cannot be pulling off when they keep coming loose.
Has enough snap to hold the mirror, but it will roll over if the bike gets knocked down or god forbid I drop it. |
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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At least the LT mirrors are much harder to knock off - until the clips start wearing out... 
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endoman100
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: mirrors |
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| jpberens1994K1100RS wrote: | Without the leashes though, more damage to the VERY expensive mirror.
The bottom of mine looks like some one playes friggin shuffle board with them. They are all touched up & all, but still ! Heck, I'd liek to coat them with Line X truck bed liner ALA Drake, but have not got around to it.
The roads around SE WI are so beat to heck from the winter that I had to resort to a bungee cord inside the mirror. Tied it to the mirror signal frame, then through the hole in the fairing mount, then wound it around the mount in there. Kinde of a PITA, but I cannot be pulling off when they keep coming loose.
Has enough snap to hold the mirror, but it will roll over if the bike gets knocked down or god forbid I drop it. |
mine rt one was off when I got my K1100rs and the base plate was bent I odered new clips and tried to straiten the plate as close as I could but could not get the mirror to stay on. So i took the lenns out and drilled
the metal bar at the base of the mirror used a little larger drill bit than the sheet metal screw and with the mirror held on the base I drilled a 1/8 hole in the base plate an screwed the damn thing on.
works great and I don't have to worrie about it falling off.
If you want I can take a pic of what I've done.
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jpberens1994K1100RS
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: mirrors |
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Nah, I'm OK, get the verbal picture. 
Unless someone else wants it posted? Sorry, did not mean to be a K-nob. 
But thanks for the offer!
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Shoganai
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: mirrors |
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| endoman100 wrote: |
If you want I can take a pic of what I've done. |
I'm interested 
I'm a visual kinda girl. 
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endoman100
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: Re: mirrors |
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| Shoganai wrote: | | endoman100 wrote: |
If you want I can take a pic of what I've done. |
I'm interested
I'm a visual kinda girl. |
I hope this helps. Just one screw through the metal brace and no more
mirror falling off. But, Doing this might break your mirror in the bike falls. I don't know what would break, The screw or the bracket.
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Shoganai
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Sweet!
Thanx.
PS: Are you a Stones fan? 
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1994 K1100RS aka Blue Streak
The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies there.
So slip the chain and I'm off again,
You'll find me everywhere. I'm a Rover. - JT
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endoman100
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| Shoganai wrote: | Sweet!
Thanx.
PS: Are you a Stones fan? |
Yes, But more of a led zep fan
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| Shoganai wrote: | | PS: Are you a Stones fan? |
Who isn't?
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86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
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Shoganai
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| endoman100 wrote: | | Yes, But more of a led zep fan |
Cool. I'm a Pink Floyd / Stones fan but Zep hold a place in my heart.
| Flying Duck wrote: |
Who isn't? |
Oddly enough, there are some 
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1993 K1100RS aka The Shop Whore
1994 K1100RS aka Blue Streak
The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies there.
So slip the chain and I'm off again,
You'll find me everywhere. I'm a Rover. - JT
Nana korobi ya oki |
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endoman100
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| Shoganai wrote: | | endoman100 wrote: | | Yes, But more of a led zep fan |
Cool. I'm a Pink Floyd / Stones fan but Zep hold a place in my heart.
| Flying Duck wrote: |
Who isn't? |
Oddly enough, there are some |
love Pink Floyd and 10cc, boston, Styx ect...
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