Any suggestions where to buy bar mounted after market mirrors for my 12 reg RT1200 please?
bar mounted mirrors
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Falco9
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I bought a pair of Aprilia Tuono mirrors off eBay for about £15 and then a pair of mirror adaptor mounts from Nippy Normans at £38 + p&p. The adaptor plates are stupidly expensive for what you get ( http://www.nippynormans.com/product...rror-adaptor-r1200rt-2010-to-2012-wun-4600055 ) but they do the job and Nippys appears to be the only place to get them. Be aware the thread they use is a M10 x 1.5 pitch. The M10 size is common to hundreds of motorcycle mirrors but the aprilia mirrors turned out to have a M10 x 1.25 pitch. Luckily I have a tap & die set so I was able to re-thread them (not ideal, but more than good enough for a mirror)
I'm not sure if its just Aprilia who are unusual in having a 1.25 pitch or Nippys mounts in having a 1.5 pitch, buts it worth bearing in mind when choosing / purchasing your mirrors
After all that (to be honest it was a 2 minute job in reality) I can say without doubt it was well worth doing. The bar mounted mirrors are in my opinion a 100% improvement on looking at my knuckles. Unfortunately this means the fairing mounted mirrors are largely redundant ( you could set them as blind spot mirrors I guess) and its crossed my mind whether to remove the glass and mechanism to see if I could convert them into small storage areas???
F9
Cheers F9
I bought a set of these for my 2010, had them 18 months and they are fine.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R1200...pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item4ad1e7196b
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