Is the right-side mirror mount right- or left-hand thread? -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Erm.... dunno! Yamaha used left-hand threads on left-hand mirrors. They might use them for right-hand as well.
So you said the other night. Did you notice that you then screwed in a right-hand-thread mirror on the left, and failed to screw in another right-hand-thread mirror on the right? <g,d&r> -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Dr Ivan D. Reid says... Left is a right hand thread, right is a left hand thread. 1100 Virago mirrors are identical to the old RD ones, so will look period for a DT.
Ta, Lozz. I'm rather lost without mirrors (esp. with my broken neck and limited head-check movement). TOG found a left one to fit but I found it fraught on the M25 without a right as well. BTW, the ride home was the first time I wore that Arai since you sold it to me. (Hangs head in shame.) -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Sure it's not RHT for the RH and LHT for the LH? With the mirrors out in the breeze, the wind against the mirror heads will keep the stalks tight that way.
Grimly Curmudgeon says... Nope, deffo the other way. It's so the mirror unwinds rather than ripping the threads out when you drop the bike.
These cunning Japs, they think of everything. Come to think of it, you're right - on the few bikes I've had with a LH threaded mirror, it's been the 'wrong' one for me - ie, the wind unscrews the bloody thing.
Yep; as I said, TOG screwed a right-hand-thread mirror into the LH mount, and if I follow the thread on the RH side it's definitely LH. Guess I should be finding out where the closest Yamahahaha dealer is, but I'd better bleed Black Kat's brakes first. -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
OK, where's my nearest Patton dealer? Off to Halfords to look at power bleeders (sod it[1]!)... [1] Where the f*ck *is* that air hiding? I've even cracked open the banjo bolt at the master cylinder in case it was there. Good thing I've still got an unopened 1l bottle of fluid. -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
