Just a quick one to explain the Airbus A380 wing mirrors!
And I start with an admission. I made a glaring nooobish mistake. I read many times that thou mirrors are a good upgrade for the early 600 mirrors.
So I ordered these puppies:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=350558490245&view=all&tid=480639190022But of course the FZ1 and the FZS1000 are a bit different. So sure enough, they arrived and my initial excitement (they felt like top quality units, no 'hall of mirrors' style wobbly glass) quickly turned to dismay as I realised that they weren't going to fit. Particularly annoying as they took 2 weeks to arrive, and so would take another two to return before I got my refund, minus the delivery costs.
Sod it, I thought. I'm going to make them fit. They have about 41mm between the mounting posts versus the 600's 30ish mm. So not too far out.
I marked up the mirror mount arm, took a breath and drilled a hole in a perfectly good component!
Not my neatest work but it would do.
Luckily the rubber 'gasket' between the fairing and the arm was stretchy enough that i just persuaded it into place.
And then I had to cut away a bit of the fairing to make way for the wider mount posts. Again, not the neatest, but the gator at the base of the stalk will cover up the rough work!
Then the mirrors just bolted on and gave this wide armed look!
In the end the effort was worth it as I can now see clearly around my own elbows! No more funky chicken dance every time I want to know whats behind me! It has made me a little more cautious when I'm filtering, although the flatness of the mirror stalks means they do seem to go under many van mirrors and over many cars. Plus, now that I've put the Renthal Bars on, the mirrors don't seem so wide. Best of all, they are much more steady, so I have a pretty good rear view, regardless of engine revs/road speed.
