bob_m
Active member
Anyone familiar with the R100RS knows that the mirrors give a perfect view of one's shoulders. Considering this a safety issue I set on a quest to improve the mirrors without ruining the style of the beautiful machine.
First I bought some aftermarket mirrors with stalks and mounted them onto the existing plastic mirror mounts. They were cheap and they looked cheap and they worked poorly.
Then I cruised the internet and found Rizoma. They make real high quality mirrors. I tried to buy from overseas, but they required I go to their US distributer, Wunderlich, who offered a very limited selection of the Rizoma products. None the less I bought the mirrors that I felt would best compliment the RS design. I mounted them onto the existing mirror mounts and they were very nice mirrors, but the mounting was all wrong. The Rizoma mirror base is a barrel into which a allen bolt fits. This barrel, on top of the BMW plastic mirror mount looked storkey. Also, I was reluctant to cinch the mirrors down out of fear the plastic would crush, so the wind constantly pushed the mirrors out of alignment.
So I designed a new mount. I crafted a template out of wood (poplar) and sent it to my brother in law (the machinist). He did nothing until I came to visit, then found a block of aluminum alloy and milled a recess into the allow block to accept the Rizoma mirror base and he told me "remove everything that is not a mirror mount"
I think they look swell. The screw pattern uses the existing mount holes so no drilling is done into the fairing.
The right one is a little different from the left one, but I only look at one a time.
Photos attached.
First I bought some aftermarket mirrors with stalks and mounted them onto the existing plastic mirror mounts. They were cheap and they looked cheap and they worked poorly.
Then I cruised the internet and found Rizoma. They make real high quality mirrors. I tried to buy from overseas, but they required I go to their US distributer, Wunderlich, who offered a very limited selection of the Rizoma products. None the less I bought the mirrors that I felt would best compliment the RS design. I mounted them onto the existing mirror mounts and they were very nice mirrors, but the mounting was all wrong. The Rizoma mirror base is a barrel into which a allen bolt fits. This barrel, on top of the BMW plastic mirror mount looked storkey. Also, I was reluctant to cinch the mirrors down out of fear the plastic would crush, so the wind constantly pushed the mirrors out of alignment.
So I designed a new mount. I crafted a template out of wood (poplar) and sent it to my brother in law (the machinist). He did nothing until I came to visit, then found a block of aluminum alloy and milled a recess into the allow block to accept the Rizoma mirror base and he told me "remove everything that is not a mirror mount"
I think they look swell. The screw pattern uses the existing mount holes so no drilling is done into the fairing.
The right one is a little different from the left one, but I only look at one a time.
Photos attached.