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Re: PC800: Making new wingmirrors
Written by Daniel Page on 3/10/2013 at 12:00 am

Hi Douglas,

Back on the mirrors again, I missed your post a year ago :)

Originally, the first was ripped off when a belgian truck was looking at a police pollution checkpoint on his left rather than the red light in front and scraped himself up my left side... It's a sobering sight to see a 5 foot rubber tyre come rubbing across your left shoulder... The other was smashed when I fainted after an asthma attack (first in 15 years) and trying to park the bike before I fell off it. I fell off. Crunch. Luckily I had stopped.

After this, the M3 mirror, I caught a truck with it when avoiding some idiot who decided to pull out without looking, what was a near miss made another crunch as the mirrors did not fold and they stuck out another good 2 inches from the originals... I do not suggest you try any of these :)

For the last year I installed bar mounted mirrors from an old BMW GS (square shaped), and they work very well and integrate well into the bike... but I have now got a panoramic high windshield and the mirrors get in the way!

Fiberglass replicas may be the way to go, but for the moment, I am thinking how to bolt Packrat's mirrors onto the original mount points, as they are easy to adjust and fold in if anyone bumps into them...

Cheers,
Daniel

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