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fnord
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 Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: Whoever designed these mirrors and clips... |
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...deserves an eternity of being kicked in the nuts/ovum.
What a PITA... My garage is pretty cramped, and so I bump the cars on occasion, and <PING> there goes a clip...
So I find the clip, get it in place, line up the clips with the fairing, push, and <PING> there goes a clip again.
I'm now keeping a flashlight in the tankbag just for finding the clips. Of course, I should've had one anyway, but that's beside the point...
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Flying Duck
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That designer has a reserved seat in hell - right next to the guy who designed the stock seat.
The guy who designed the worthless helmet lock goes to purgatory.
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owrstrich
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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i have to take my mirrors off about 30 times a year... which means i have to put them on about 30 times a year...
my clips were shot long ago... but i get all new clips a few weeks ago...
lots of folks use steel fishing leaders for mirror tethers...
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| Quote: | | The guy who designed the worthless helmet lock goes to purgatory. |
True, but a lock extender helps a ton with this.
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K11Martin
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Off the grid wrote: | | True, but a lock extender helps a ton with this. |
Or a topbox... 
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Well I have such a huge melon that only my half helmet fits in the topbox. 
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mnb
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I've only had a mirror come off twice. Once for each side. Of course, when the crappy kickstand folded up on me the bike fell on the mirrors and cracked one of them. Only scuffed the other, but it doesn't fit tight anymore and vibrates.
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Moondog
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Whoever designed these mirrors and clips... |
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| fnord wrote: | ...deserves an eternity of being kicked in the nuts/ovum.
What a PITA... My garage is pretty cramped, and so I bump the cars on occasion, and <PING> there goes a clip...
So I find the clip, get it in place, line up the clips with the fairing, push, and <PING> there goes a clip again.
I'm now keeping a flashlight in the tankbag just for finding the clips. Of course, I should've had one anyway, but that's beside the point... |
Amen, I have used the wire tethered method but the last time I had them off I put them back on with heavy duty ty-wraps. Works just as well.
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Flying Duck
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The RS mirros are a PITA. The LT mirrors are much easier to deal with. But on the LT when the clips start to go you have to buy a whole friggin mirror. 
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Roy S.
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| Off the grid wrote: | | Well I have such a huge melon that only my half helmet fits in the topbox. |
+1
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| owrstrich wrote: |
lots of folks use steel fishing leaders for mirror tethers...
j o |
Works OK for me.
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mnb
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Do RS mirrors come off all the time or something? Never really been an issue on my LT...
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| mnb wrote: | | Do RS mirrors come off all the time or something? Never really been an issue on my LT... |
They come off if you look at them crosswise.
Or if somebody brushes up against them.
The LT mirrors actually need a good purposeful smack to come off. And they're easier to put back on as well.
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mnb
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Flying Duck wrote: | | And they're easier to put back on as well. |
Really? I thought I was gonna tip my bike over it required such force.
At some point I'm going to replace the mirrors since they're scuffed up. Probably about the same time I get the saddlebags painted. I wish they'd been painted stock instead of just colored. They faded fast. The rest of the bike looks great, though.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I thought I was gonna tip my bike over it required such force.
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+1
I put on leashes just in case.
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mnb
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Off the grid wrote: | | I put on leashes just in case. |
Is that Mick Doohan in your avatar? Hell of a rider and a joy to watch.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure...I just put it up cause it's badass.
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owrstrich
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:05 am Post subject: |
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this thread gave me bad motomirror karma...
my left mirror fell off on the bumpy socal freeways today... its the one with the bent cup... but my tether kept it attached to my motoheap... got pulled over and got it back on ok...
j o
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