Flappy mirror

[fireblake]

This is on my Gen 1 thou but must be generic.  Above a certain speed my near side mirror flips back. Does anyone have a clue how to tighten the hinge up? Annoyingly I have to manually fold this mirror back when parked in my garage. Its ok day to day, but on certain spirited rides and above certain speeds it flips back.

Mickey

[Arfa]

If it's anything like the FZS600 mirrors, then you'll find the mirror hinge is a permanently fixed rivet, rather than a nut and bolts you tighten up.

I managed to snap the rivet on mine in a recent drop. Picked up a cheap replacement off ebay, brand new apparently, but it was just a bodged up one that also had a snapped rivet and had been replaced with nut, bolt and pile of washers. It felt perfectly stiff when fitted, but week later it was flapping about like mad.

So, it sounds like yours has a snapped rivet or a bodged one with nut'n'bolt that have become loose. You could try faffing about tightening it, covering it with lock-tight etc. or it's new mirror time - £80!  The cheap Chinese ones on ebay are apparently a bit naff and many don't hinge at all!

[Tmation]

Looks like Arfa is right, if you look at the pictures in the link below you will see it is a rivet, you will have to change it for a nut and bolt.


You could always do the mirror Mod whilst your at it.


http://www.yamahafz1oa.com/fuzzyonesstoc...rmod.shtml

[fireblake]

Thanks guys, i'll look at that  page later. I would prefer to still be able to fold it back as it would always be getting knocked as others walk past.


Mickey

[Arfa]

Worth keeping mirrors foldable, necessary for some rain covers and dead handy when you need to filter through them particularly tight gaps...

[Davebo]

You use this stuff to fix/improve all sorts of things on a bike.

www.sugru.com

[caretaker]

apparently, it flips back at speeds in excess of 130. kind of a safety feature.

[nick crisp]

Don't bother with cheap pattern copies, some of them flip back at little more than 60mph. Genuine, unfortunately, is the only way to go if you want to keep to standard look/use.

[Grahamm]

I'm having a similar problem with the left mirror on my FZ6.  I have to fold the mirrors back to get it into the shed, but now the left one keeps dropping back a fraction, changing the view.

At the moment my solution is simply to adjust the mirror so it's showing the correct view when it's dropped back, so I just push it all the way out, then pull it in a fraction so it's in the "dropped back" position, but if it gets worse I may need to try drilling out the rivet and adding a nut and bolt instead.