A Wild Goose Chase for Mirrors

I think I mentioned that the left fairing mirror got bunged up at some point in it's life. Someone drilled out the top of the ball joint on the base to stem connection and put some epoxy around it to try and keep the whole thing together, which it does. The bad thing is that the epoxy doesn't hold the ball joint in place and the mirror slumps down.

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I've been on a quest to find replacement mirrors. I actually found a fairing in Florida that had the identical mirrors on it for $25. The problem was that the drive was 3.5 hours each way. I didn't buy it. I saw mirrors on ebay, a single mirror was $40. I fell back on my old standby, Craigslist.

I found two sets of mirrors. When I left in the morning I said it didn't really matter I was coming home with a set. The first set was from an old Katana 1100. They were scratched which didn't bother me. Unfortunately, I hadn't anticipated that the angle of the mirrors when mounted on a bullet shaped fairing don't match the same angle.  No matter how I angled them, I couldn't make them match the angle of the OEM mirrors. The owner had these up in Locust Point, about two blocks from Fort McHenry, He listed them at $50, but quickly came down to $30 without me asking.

The second set of mirrors was from a 2005 Yamaha R6 for $30, They were in Jarrettsville. Although, I had passed through Jarrettsville a couple of weeks ago, I hadn't been up there since my cousin lived there 40 years ago. These mirrors were plasticy and didn't fit any better than the others.

I didn't buy either set. Although, I did call Walt in Baltimore and tell him that I was going to look at the angles to see if I could work with his mirrors. 

One possabilty is to build angled cleat blocks similar to what we do on sailboats to get a fair lead on a line. Of course the problem is of course it's alot of work.

The search goes on.