Crap mirrors on '98

[ReflexiveBeef]

Hi all, fed up of looking at my shoulders in the mirror, any suggestions on how to make a couple of spacers, or does anyone have a set of '01 mirrors to sell? Cheers  :b

[fazersharp]

"SHOULDERS" how tall (short) are you because I am 5'8" and I see my elbows. For which you have to learn to do the "funky chicking " :guitar

[mickvp]

I've got a thou and I still have to do the funky chicken and the foxeye 600 I had was no difference. I think the only rear proper improvement you can make is to switch to bar end mirrors, but I've never used them personally

[BBROWN1664]

Switch the left and right over. It makes a bit of a difference.

[fazersharp]

Switch the left and right over. It makes a bit of a difference.

I don't get it  :o , more info please I might have a look at doing this myself

[celticdog]

Yeah I like the funky chicken
I've swapped mine over for Cheapo R6 pattern mirrors from fleabay, they've made a good difference.

[BBROWN1664]

The mirrors are not identical. So switching them over left/right results in the head of the mirror being higher or lower (cant remember which) than originally. It might make the difference you need.

[fazersharp]

The mirrors are not identical. So switching them over left/right results in the head of the mirror being higher or lower (cant remember which) than originally. It might make the difference you need.

Sorry still being a bit thick here, do you swap the whole stem from the fairing which would then mean that the mirror is facing the wrong way, is the mirror head then able to twist all the way around, perhaps raising it on its ball and socket/knuckle joint.   

[sinto607276]

Sorry still being a bit thick here, do you swap the whole stem from the fairing which would then mean that the mirror is facing the wrong way, is the mirror head then able to twist all the way around, perhaps raising it on its ball and socket/knuckle joint. 

You swap everything, mirror and connecting rods and rubber covers.
You don't have to 'twist' anything.
Put it this way....
Sit on the bike, take the left mirror off, keep it facing you and then move it over to the right hand side and locate it in the holes.
You'll see the mirror stem is in a more upright position, repeat doing the right to left.
Secure both and adjust the angle of the mirror to give you rear view, you will find they sit at a weird position but that's because your used to the way they are now. When I done it I had far better view with original position but I'm a short arse at 5'5" and not broad, so I can see no problems.

[fazersharp]

Sit on the bike, take the left mirror off, keep it facing you and then move it over to the right hand side and locate it in the holes.

Now you see thats the bit I dont get because the left mirror points to the left if I took it off whilst keeping it facing me it would still be pointing to the left and so sitting over the clocks.
Maybe I need a few more beers to understand

[celticdog]

  :think Surely if you loose your left mirror, your right mirror will be left?
:useless

[fazersharp]

  :think Surely if you loose your left mirror, your right mirror will be left?
:useless

Thats right

[sinto607276]

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Sit on the bike, take the left mirror off, keep it facing you and then move it over to the right hand side and locate it in the holes.

Now you see thats the bit I dont get because the left mirror points to the left if I took it off whilst keeping it facing me it would still be pointing to the left and so sitting over the clocks.
Maybe I need a few more beers to understand
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It sits a wee bit taller bit more upright tbh but not to my liking tbh
You can turn the rubbers around and then twist the mirror housing (as you mentioned earlier) 180% and try that but as I can see ok I didn't pursue that option.

[fazersharp]

It sits a wee bit taller bit more upright tbh but not to my liking tbh

Surly sitting more upright would make it worse - it needs to be sitting more at an angle to stick out more and not more upright
Need more beer

[sinto607276]

[quote author=sinto link=topic=20325.msg234374#msg234374 date=1466028898]

It sits a wee bit taller bit more upright tbh but not to my liking tbh

Surly sitting more upright would make it worse - it needs to be sitting more at an angle to stick out more and not more upright
Need more beer
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Yep, well it didn't work for me!
Just normal position works fine for me, maybe I'm just lucky

[BBROWN1664]

Yours may be on back to front already. A previous owner may have switched them over.

[BBROWN1664]

You have nothing, other than 10 minutes of time, to lose by trying this. It may save you a fortune on new mirrors.

[TOADY]

mine are on as Yamaha intended and I can get a reasonable view of whats behind me, sometimes need to do a bit of elbow jiggling to get a better view and wearing a jacket with heavy elbow armour doesn't help the situation much, I was thinking of getting low renthals with the logic being it should drop my elbows a bit giving me a better view. has anybody else found that they get better rear view by using lower rise bars?

[fazersharp]

The problem is I start a simple, not very necessary job like that and then regret it after mullering the yamaha cheese nuts, dropping the spanner on my tank, spending 1/2 hour chasing the washer fairies that live in my garage only to give in half way cause I wanted to go out for a ride but now its all too late cause its looking a bit cloudy.
I came up with this idea a while ago, the inside would be sculptured and marry up with the back of the oem and be glued/velcro in position.

[ReflexiveBeef]

Cheers fellas, the cheapest option I've found today is learning to do the funky chickung ;D might give swapping the mirrors round a go too cuz I'm a cheap ass student. I gotta be honest that's a weird idea fazersharp, but impressive if you pulled it off! How about some of those stick-on square bent mirror things on the shoulder (correction- elbow) viewing area as a halfway house?

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