fxr mirrors!!

[TraD_MaN]

im having a shet of a time with my mirrors i carnt see jack! its freaky for me because im a leaner and when u get these crazy cage drivers come hooni up your arse, you carnt see them then next thing they are nearly running you off the road :oi-grr:

can i mod my mirrors or put some new mirrors on?

[bane]

im having a shet of a time with my mirrors i carnt see jack! its freaky for me because im a leaner and when u get these crazy cage drivers come hooni up your arse, you carnt see them then next thing they are nearly running you off the road :oi-grr:

can i mod my mirrors or put some new mirrors on?

agree - worse as im "wider than the average bear" (so to speak) :whistle:. Fairly early on, ditched the std FXR mirrors for some aftermarket ones I could actually see with - $90 the pair from Road & Sport Hamilton (OEM are $90 each...). If interested will post brand tomorrow sometime.

[Magua]

This may or may not work for you depending on how shit your mirrors are. When I bent the bracket holding my right hand mirror in a crash I firstly bent it as much as I could then thought of this....

[FROSTY]

I replaced the mirrors on my FXR with some from a gsxr250 (i think) --they were bigger and longer stalks.
You could make up spacer blocks to move the mirrors outwards.

[Warren]

Washers would not be enough, you need 5cm or more so you will have to get aftermarket mirrors. I have seen someone with aluminium 5cm extendors but they look ugly.

The default mirrors are crap and I have to lift and look under my arm to see what is behind me. Nothing like the shock of an ambulance speeding past because I can only my sholders get shown in the rear view mirrors.

[GR81]

I have the same problem with my GSX250.

Bane, can you please post some more information and possibly pictures.
Would be much appreciated.

[vifferman]

You could get some bar-end mirrors - they stick out far enough to not get your arms/elbows in the way.

Most bikes have 'less than totally useful' mirrors. My current bike is the first in as long as I can remember that actually has useful mirrors. I remember what my father told me when I got my first bike - to make sure you don't end up dead, you need to be like the fighter pilots in WW1 and WWII: develop a swivel neck, adn continually look around you. (The pilots used to actually wear wome's silk scarves so that their neck didn't get chafed from turning their head all the time).
My second bike had no mirrors; I took them both off, as they were next to useless anyway, due to vibrations blurring them. I got a ticket from a cop in Cambridge as a result, and had to sell the bike as the meagre fine emptied my even more meagre bank account (I was a uni student).

[dveus]

I have the same problem with my GSX250.

Bane, can you please post some more information and possibly pictures.
Would be much appreciated.

I thought the GSX has quite good mirrors, maybe you just need to adjust em a little more.

[GR81]

maybe i have wide elbows? haha
they are better than the FXR150, but still not all that flash.

[Ixion]

You could get some bar-end mirrors - they stick out far enough to not get your arms/elbows in the way.

Most bikes have 'less than totally useful' mirrors. My current bike is the first in as long as I can remember that actually has useful mirrors. I remember what my father told me when I got my first bike - to make sure you don't end up dead, you need to be like the fighter pilots in WW1 and WWII: develop a swivel neck, adn continually look around you. (The pilots used to actually wear wome's silk scarves so that their neck didn't get chafed from turning their head all the time).
My second bike had no mirrors; I took them both off, as they were next to useless anyway, due to vibrations blurring them. I got a ticket from a cop in Cambridge as a result, and had to sell the bike as the meagre fine emptied my even more meagre bank account (I was a uni student).

yep, not many where you can see anything much. And on many bikes what you can see is a blurry blob. BMW is the only bike I've had where the mirrors are actually much use.

[TraD_MaN]

thanks for the replys, well i think ill go have a look around the bike shops tomorrow and then ill go looking on the net for after market ones. ill most likely get back too you soon thoe bane, if i have no luck.

[Antallica]

I always just quickly tucked my left elbow in to see behind me.