How to fix mirror
Two days ago, my dear Flying Pig fainted again and leaned against the garage wall. In the process my right mirror cover popped off but mirror handle snapped. Cover is glued many times and I assume there is enough glue to keep it together even in a hit like this. Good, I need all the help I can get. Mirror head was in one piece, actual mirror glass is in one piece but completely separated from the bike. I had same problem with the left mirror over a year ago; I tried few times to put it together with different epoxies and no luck. This time I decided not to try that route. I hate to ride with out mirrors so I decide to try different way and I can report it worked. I may get replacement some day but this worked very well. I used bracket (flat piece used to connect lights to electric box), it is flat and has two long slots for screws to match different box sizes. First I bent the end to fit recessed area on the mirror side. I drilled the hole and put machine bolt with flat washer on the head side and lock washer on the nut side. After that I bent the bracket 90 degrees (with pliers) and estimated the length I will need. I cut excess off and with pliers bent the bracket to closely match the curvature of the spring loaded mirror mount. Finally I used channel lock pliers to force bracket to the mirror mount to form the curvature as close as possible. After that I drilled two holes to facilitate two self taping screws. Since I had to rotate mirror head 90 degrees to free access to the area for bolting the bracket to the broken side, I rotated it back to proper position, re attached small piece that hides the internals (I do not know the name for that), snapped the cover on, And I was back in business. It took about and hour to do all. Mirror is solid and looks good, if you ignore glued cover. This way I am not riding without the mirror nor have bike parked until search, order or shipping is being conducted. I hope this helps someone like me, who likes to thinker and fix things instead of order and replace.
Have fun and go ride.
PS - it is hard to get close up picture in focus with no manual focus override.
Two days ago, my dear Flying Pig fainted again and leaned against the garage wall. In the process my right mirror cover popped off but mirror handle snapped. Cover is glued many times and I assume there is enough glue to keep it together even in a hit like this. Good, I need all the help I can get. Mirror head was in one piece, actual mirror glass is in one piece but completely separated from the bike. I had same problem with the left mirror over a year ago; I tried few times to put it together with different epoxies and no luck. This time I decided not to try that route. I hate to ride with out mirrors so I decide to try different way and I can report it worked. I may get replacement some day but this worked very well. I used bracket (flat piece used to connect lights to electric box), it is flat and has two long slots for screws to match different box sizes. First I bent the end to fit recessed area on the mirror side. I drilled the hole and put machine bolt with flat washer on the head side and lock washer on the nut side. After that I bent the bracket 90 degrees (with pliers) and estimated the length I will need. I cut excess off and with pliers bent the bracket to closely match the curvature of the spring loaded mirror mount. Finally I used channel lock pliers to force bracket to the mirror mount to form the curvature as close as possible. After that I drilled two holes to facilitate two self taping screws. Since I had to rotate mirror head 90 degrees to free access to the area for bolting the bracket to the broken side, I rotated it back to proper position, re attached small piece that hides the internals (I do not know the name for that), snapped the cover on, And I was back in business. It took about and hour to do all. Mirror is solid and looks good, if you ignore glued cover. This way I am not riding without the mirror nor have bike parked until search, order or shipping is being conducted. I hope this helps someone like me, who likes to thinker and fix things instead of order and replace.
Have fun and go ride.
PS - it is hard to get close up picture in focus with no manual focus override.
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