Mirror's spinning freely

[topbanana]

A cyclist piled into me outside the Houses of Parliament a couple of months a go. No damage done at the time I thought, but after that I noticed my nearside mirror was harder to adjust.

Came back to my bike the other day after parking in a scratch-fest bay in London, and it looks like some scooterist has given the mirror another good whack. It now twirls round freely and flails in the wind.

Can this be adjusted or do I need a new part?

 

[Gundog]

Mirrors ok....bikes fecked

 

[VAL. H.]

A cyclist piled into me outside the Houses of Parliament a couple of months a go. No damage done at the time I thought, but after that I noticed my nearside mirror was harder to adjust.

Came back to my bike the other day after parking in a scratch-fest bay in London, and it looks like some scooterist has given the mirror another good whack. It now twirls round freely and flails in the wind.

Can this be adjusted or do I need a new part?

The mirror is a friction slip jobbie. Lift the rubber boot and underneath you'll find it can be tightened with a spanner.

Doing this you can adjust how much the mirrors vibrate, or not.



Val.

 

[Schtum]

Which bit twirls around freely? If you mean the stalk in the mount then it's just a matter of retracting the black rubber boot over the set and lock nuts and using a 17mm spanner or better still, two 17 mm spanners, set the mirror and do up the lock nut.

 

[wully]

 

[GeorgeH]

Which bit twirls around freely? If you mean the stalk in the mount then it's just a matter of retracting the black rubber boot over the set and lock nuts and using a 17mm spanner or better still, two 17 mm spanners, set the mirror and do up the lock nut.

This may confuse the OP as the spinning mirror was the nearside one when this is a picture of the offside mirror. Do the spanners still work in the same direction

 

[Popell]

Righty tighty - lefty loosey

 

[Brian ROSEN]

Mirrors

Sometimes just a touch can loosen them. Obviously the locknut should be as tight as 'reasonable' but I always carry a spanner in my tank bag; I hate to ride with either mirror badly adjusted.