Mirror covers-- fall off!

[gunsmoker]

I removed my right side mirror cover on my 2007 ST 1300 with the help of IgoFar speaking to me over the telephone.

Then that same day I accidentally bumped my fat rump against the left mirror while I was walking past the bike (from the rear to the front) and I knocked that thing completely off the bike and sent it clattering across the garage floor!

It turns out that mirror did not have a tether holding it to the bike, and it pulled out the electrical wires.

TODAY's project: I finally reconnected it. Here's a photo showing the homemade tether that I fabricated to keep it from falling off the motorcycle completely again (and ending up on the road if I were moving). .

It works. Both as a running light and as a turn signal.



PS: Yes, it's a black mirror cover on silver ST, but I am about to purchase a silver cover from a seller here.

On my ST's mirrors, all three of the clip-in attachment points had the circular tension rings / clamps on them. Igofar told me that this is not correct -- only two out of the three should have the spring loaded circular ring clamp.
But now, a couple months later, I don't recall which of the three should not have that clamp ring on it. So I took a guess and left it off the bottom one.
Can anybody confirm if this was right ?

 

[Andrew Shadow]

On my ST's mirrors, all three of the clip-in attachment points had the circular tension rings / clamps on them. Igofar told me that this is not correct -- only two out of the three should have the spring loaded circular ring clamp.
But now, a couple months later, I don't recall which of the three should not have that clamp ring on it. So I took a guess and left it off the bottom one.
Can anybody confirm if this was right ?

Yes, this is right.

 

[SupraSabre]

Besides clipping on, they have a large ZipTie that gets screwed to the mirror cover. And what I do, is to use a smaller ziptie, place it through the head of the big ziptie and and put it thru the head of the smaller ziptie.

I have had my mirror covers knocked off and just dangle, instead of breaking the wires and falling off completely.

 

[jfheath]

I have a large zip tie thread permanently through the hole in the mirror pivot. Another zip tie threaded around one of the indicator screw posts. I had to lift the indicator out to get to this. A removable zip tie to hold them together.

Someone ridiculed this arrangement quoting 3 points of failure instead of one. But this method has never failed me whereas other methods using screws through zip ties have.