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    Right hand bar end mirror

    I'm currently awaiting a part from japan to remount my mirror - However thats 3 weeks away and I sit my full next week.

    Anyone with anything? - can be a crusty old thing I'm not too fussed. Price varying on condition.

    Either that or can i borrow one for a day or two till my license is complete.

    Please PM me or reply.

    David

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    Gah, if only mine hadn't dropped off as I was going down the motorway. Damn thumper vibes. So I'm using my spare.

    I do have a quite a few normal mirrors, not bar-end ones (two come from GiJoe1313's Hornet, why is it I still have these? ) -- I did my license with one bar-end and one normaly mirror -- looked odd but surprisingly effective lol. Any use? I'm just up the road remember, could probably drop by after work if you like (finish mebbe 8.30pm or so tonight).

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    Is NZ law that you only require a left hand mirror for a WOF on a bike if so you are fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by maybe View Post
    Is NZ law that you only require a left hand mirror for a WOF on a bike if so you are fine.
    If there's a restriction on which side, I suspect it's the RHS mirror you need, not the LHS. But I think last time I looked at the rules they didn't specify, at least not the bit I read.

    I only have the one mirror, RHS (it's more useful there). Mirrors are a pain in the arse, I wouldn't have one if it wasn't law; they cause problems when filtering, look ugly (my bar-end looks OK, but bikes are nicest nekkid), and encourage being slack and not head-checking. About the only use is when you're sitting at the tail-end of a traffic jam on the motorway, and you want to look behind to see if some nutter has left it too late to brake -- but then again, you should be splitting anyway.

    Doing a license test, that's something else though. Even if they're nice enough to give you a headset, my one ran out of batteries or something halfway through and I couldn't hear shit; so the guy did the older way of indicating in my mirrors well before the turn-off. That would've been tricky with no mirror, or even just one, so I whacked on another.

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    Mirror sourced - thanks Tom for the lend

    Still quite keen to buy one - if anyone has one

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