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02-21-2006, 08:57 AM
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| U.B's LoveChild   Join Date: Sep 2005
Bike: 2005 M50, 1970 TC120
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 1,041
|  Mirror problems
Well I am not particulaly fond of the curved mirrors. I don't like not being able to tell how far away people are from me, maybe I just haven't gotten used to them or something. Anyway, I tired to pull the mirror out of the frame, and as most could probably guess, I broke it. (good thing I'm not supersticious) So i cut a new mirror (badly) and started to put it back in. Well the foam covered weight inside is what makes it curved, little did I know before starting. So i tried to shave off some foam and that didnt work, so for now I have mounted the mirror back in and on the bike without the wieght. We will see how much more vibration I get from this. If it doesn't work out I am going to go to a local glass shop and see if they can cut me a cleaner peice and attempt to put the weight back in. Has anyone had any better luck with something like this? and does anyone know how to get glass out of you finger tips? OOPS!  UPDATE: Well now I have the mirror on there again and got to go for a ride. It really doesn't vibrate much more than the mirror that I didn't break. Now that I have a flat glass one on there I don't care for the limited view of it. The curved glass allows such a larger field of view it is worth the slight distance judgement problem. But now I have a reference for the distances so i can get used to the curved mirror. When I get new mirrors they will be curved to keep that large field of view. Hopefully by then I will be used to the judging distances with the curved mirrors. All in all, dispite that I don't like the flat mirror now that it is on there, I would say this mod attempt is a success from the knowledge I have gained about my own preferences. |
