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Performance and CustomizingShare your tips and tricks on customizing your sportbike. From windscreens, footpegs, undertails, flushmounts, paint, exhausts, and tires.
Yes, I love them...have them on my speed triple, as a matter of fact.
I love how they look, but can't say they are the most functional. Since they are out so far, you do avoid some of that "seeing your shoulder/elbow" problem with some stock mirrors. But you do have to look down a bit top use them.
I have CRGs lane splitters on both the triumph and the ducati (and since we can split lanes here, I actually use them). But I have also use skyking mirrors with the same results.
I have read about folks using the cheap bicycle mirrors. I tried it and was really unhappy.
I got the cheap ones 30-40 bucks for a pair on ebay and love em. Work great, don't vibrate, and I can see more with my one on the left than both the stockers...but I have different bars and shit too.
I had some of the big trapezoidal bar-end mirrors (they go by a few names but seem to all be the same thing). They were the only way I could see behind me at all on my XB12S. The little dots that came with the bike were too small and just showed me shaky images of my shoulders. They were quite heavy which helped dampen the handle bar vibes quite a bit. They're what I recommend to anyone who's getting them to see vs. getting them to be looked at. Still, they weren't THAT ugly. But I did have to add a longer bolt and some extra rubber to the throttle side so it wouldn't drag on the grips and still hold in position.
Pic of them on the old bike.
I have the one on the left side. Very, very functional, I can see much better than with the regular mirrors on my busa. The only thing that kinda stinks is after 120mph the mirror starts to fold in especially at 140+mph.
I have the one on the left side. Very, very functional, I can see much better than with the regular mirrors on my busa. The only thing that kinda stinks is after 120mph the mirror starts to fold in especially at 140+mph.
Take Care.
Shane
yeah because at 140+ you have to be looking behind you
Best, CRG, but pricey
Best for the Money ($7.00) Third Eye bicycle bar end. These are quite servicable
Also serviceable and priced in-between, Napoleon
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