Mirrors - cracked it.

[Telford]

In my continuing search to make my 1100 as narrow as possible, in order to ease the passage up the side of the house. I think I've finally cracked it!

With an inch out of the middle of the bars and shorter, stainless, bar end weights the mirrors still clouted and scraped down the wall. So, after much deliberation and a feast of pints, I nicked the wing mirrors of my wifes old Fiat Panda and grafted them in place of the normal GS indicator mount. I've slung the indicators under the oil cooler using the beak mounting bolts and added some LED repeaters onto the mirrors.

The view rearwards is as least as good as the bar mounted mirrors and rock solid even at an indicated 120mph. They're fully adjustable and I reckon the don't look half as daft as I'd originally thought

The width is now down to a svelte 840mm (33" in old money).

Some pictures are enclosed.

 

[Telford]

A close up

A closer view

 

[Telford]

And finally...

Side view.

 

[Telford]

Free to take away

By the way,

If anyone wants an 'F' reg Fiat Panda, without mirrors, it's free to anyone that can collect!

Mark

 

[CoolCarbon]

Cool.......Mirrors very 'Pan European' in location.........

CC

 

[BiG DoM]

can also now do your make-up in the traffic?

 

[Telford]

They're great for checking that luggage / pillion are still there.

I did lose a pannier of the F650 and didn't notice for 10 miles or so, rode back and found it though! Only lost a pillion once when the grab rail on my old '72 TR6R broke going over a speed hump.

Mark

 

[(RIP) maverick]

No offence but......no just no offence..... Interesting mod, I would just not ever, ever do it as my 1100 looks shite enough with it's original mirrors

 

[Gecko]

Errr....Ummmm.....different Whatever floats your boat I guess....a novel solution to your particular problem.
I think I would be looking at my kneecaps in those

 

[newman7096]

Aren't they suposed to have glass in them?

 

[Telford]

Glass kneecaps??

 

[mpriestley]

cool

if those mirrors really do work in that position I think you have found a rather cool and very elegant solution. Has your wife noticed the wing mirrors are missing from her car or did you replace them with the ones from the GS?

 

[Telford]

At last! A man with taste

The poor old Fiat has been waiting for attention for 4 years so I think my explanaition of "they fell off" was nearly believed.

 

[richie]

Could you not remove the GS indicators and power up the panda ones??? Or is it an illusion that they have indicators?

 

[Steve]

Richie.....

I've slung the indicators under the oil cooler using the beak mounting bolts and added some LED repeaters onto the mirrors.

 

[richie]

Sorry Steve did not see that one. By the way what are LED repeaters. Do they work when the indicators work or what?

 

[Telford]

The repeaters are bendy plastic things with orange LEDs in them. Stick them where you want, wire them into the indicator circuit and they flash with the main signals (as per Merc wing mirrors).

The ones I used are by Ring - £30 from Halfords or, as I found out the next day, £20 from the local car bits shop - bugger.

I tried using them in place of the front indicators but:

a) they're not very bright - especially in bright sunlight - rare as it may be.
b) their resistance is too low for the 'old style' flasher relay so the indicators were flashing too fast (still within the legal '2 per second' maximum). I could have got an electronic flasher relay but I'd already ripped myself off by £10 so I fitted the originals back on.

Mark

 

[Frank Warner]

I think that is fairly good myself.

I take it the review of traffic is good?

Modern car mirrors have a flold back thingy .. would that protect them in an encounter with gravity?

 

[BiG DoM]

Maybe you could also look at the old Morris 1000 pop-out ones...would certainly give more clearance!

 

[Telford]

Maybe you could also look at the old Morris 1000 pop-out ones...would certainly give more clearance!

Moggy minor semaphores... I like that idea

I could graft them in along the side of the beak...

Nurse! Time for the medication I think.