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Title: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: bluesman77 on March 17, 2009, 05:50:27 AM Are any of you familair w/ the subject mirrors? My main question is do they also clamp over 7/8" dia. handlebars? The Renthal bar I use is too thick to use the expanding collet on the inside. In the description they say fit over most bar ends, but I'm wanting to clamp on the bar itself since that's my only option short of drilling the I.D. larger.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310128328806&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&viewitem= (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310128328806&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&viewitem=) Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: He Man on March 17, 2009, 06:22:26 AM they will work fine, not as high qualithy as crgs or anyhting of that nature.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: corey on March 17, 2009, 06:56:39 AM I have a pair of the non-folding persuasion purchased off the same guy.
Couldn't be happier for $40. Go for it. Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: bdfinally on March 17, 2009, 07:58:57 AM I had a pair for about 2 months. Found that they worked fine, a lil buzzier than crg's but workable. The inside of the bolts rusted quick tho, went to local hardware store and replaced the lot with SS, for about $9
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: causeofkaos on March 17, 2009, 08:08:24 AM i also have the cheapo non folding and they work just fine, the only reason i didnt get those is if the bike falls over i doubt they will survive i cant imagine they will smoothly slide into up position like the crg lanesplitters do. IIRC member on the board had the crg when they laid the bike over in the garage the crgs popped into lane split mode and didnt break. I doubt these will do that. If nothing else you got 40$ bar end sliders with mirrors as a bonus.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: He Man on March 17, 2009, 08:21:14 AM depends on how you crash, i went down and the mirror just flew off and landed onto my horizontal cylinder. [laugh]
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: bluesman77 on March 17, 2009, 08:48:55 AM Thank you all for your imput, but I also need to know if these will clamp onto a 7/8" dia. bar for sure? Again, my Renthals are too thick to use the internal expanding collet - so it's either clamp over the bar or find a 15MM drill bit to ream out the ends.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: mookieo2 on March 17, 2009, 01:01:56 PM I had the cheapo ones on a set of Rizoma bars that had pretty thick wall tubing. The mirrors cam w/ both ID setups.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: hamsandwich on March 17, 2009, 02:56:10 PM i had these briefly on my 696, great for the price. clearly not as nice as crg's but i think a good value.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: beethoven on March 17, 2009, 05:09:05 PM I use a pair of cheap mountain bike bar ends. The supplied internals didnt fit inside the bars but by using the existing bar weight internals and bolt they work fine. Maybe thats an option.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: JEFF_H on March 18, 2009, 09:04:18 AM These look to be the same mirrors as the Motrax ones sold by cycle gear.
might search for motrax for some more opinions... Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: NvrSummer on March 18, 2009, 11:10:05 AM I went this route too, but I used CRG lanesplit arms to get the folding function. I think the total cost for both was about $75.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: Smokescreen on March 18, 2009, 11:14:01 AM actually these may fit into your bars. There are two collets in there if I remember correctly. You remover the outer one and you're good. As for mounting on the bar itself, I never tried.
BTW, the pitfall to these is that the mirror tends to come loose. it's not fastened in as well as the CRGs, and when that occurs, it can slowly eat the mirror coating off the edges of the mirror. Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: corey on March 18, 2009, 11:27:36 AM they fit damn fine on my thick walled magura aluminum bars. you should have no problems.
Title: Re: $46 Folding Bar End Mirrors on eBay Post by: Sause on March 19, 2009, 05:57:26 AM Any Idea how these will fit on tomaselli clip ons?
I already bought them but am now just wondering what I can expect. |