Magical Racing Carbon Fiber Mirrors

Oh so tempted by these carbon fiber mirrors, anyone have some?



I like the #4 style shown on this Streetfighter...

I'm probably going to get a lot heat over this - but do either of those products actually function? You know, as mirrors - ? You know what the mirrors are for, right?

You must be a super rich guy, as those bits can't be cheap. The SD mirrors actually work, and don't look bad either.

BTW - that SF in that pic, is about the ugliest looking moto I've ever seen. Seriously. Ever. Ugliest. Its like they took an already ugly moto (which SFs are), and went out of their way to make it uglier. Tuono RSV4 is prettier, and its uuuuuuugly. Ever heard that tale "The Emperor's New Clothes"? I've got some premium vintage air I think you might be interested in purchasing.

The standard mirrors are the best I've had on a bike yet and they don't vibrate too much either. I wish I had $300 to spend on mirrors though.

Those mirrors are actually quite large as far as aftermarket mirrors go. Yes, the stock mirrors function fine, but I'd rather not have plastic dirt bike mirrors on my nicely detailed Super Duke, which I'm in the process of tricking out in carbon fiber. Money is all relative.

A bit off topic, but are mirrors a legal requirement in the US? Just wondering...

Here are the same mirrors on a Z1000...

http://www.moto-works.jp/bikes/07_z1000.html

very cute and quick, nice find

I sure like my CRG Arrow bar end mirrors...better. aluminium CNC 'ed man jewerly. Top shelf items. Black anodised. Arm has detent locations for moving thru tight spots like indoors thru door ways. Flips out of way and back to correct location. They are small and I bet not as good a view as stockers that I never had.
Bar ends are out of line of sight with the road in front of you.
They will save you a buck fifty too @ $100 USD each.
I live in the sticks and don't have to worry too much about the 18 yr old blond babe looking in her mirror and smearing lip grease 8 feet off my 6 at 80 mph.
To me the CGR Arrow mirrors look 30 years newer then the indy car mirrors. They also match the stunning angular lines of the KTM SD. They get alot of good comments from people I respect in the m/c clan I run with.
But we all know, it's your bike and youl buy what you want to.

dont have the crg's but i do have 'fish eyed' bar ends, great view (because they are domed) and dont vibrate at all (unlike the stockers that vibrate too much to make anything out above 80km/h)

"After staring at dozens of mirrors I reached this conclusion on my own, ordered up some CRG Arrow bar ends, along with the the clutch and brake lever mount top brackets without the mirror mounts to complete the conversion. "

Not following the clutch and brake lever mount top brackets note. I stuck the stock KTM bar end weights in a metal lathe and turned them down to a 7/ 8 inch sholder e-nuf to hang the bar end mirrors. I guess I will have to see what you ordered.

Party on in Indy..Still a double header with a Dirt Track Mile too? Would have loved to see KIng Kenny on his old TZ roostin' the Mile. Some You Tube clips out there of Kenny that water me eyes.

Here comes Kenny! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...............................Nicky still has it too.

Ya.....lot's of wise asses, and dumb bunnys on this site.......here's one for ya...Bring your bike out to Oergon and we will help you get rid of your chicken strips...Sorry could not help my self . Not!

I got it now what you are taling about with the clamps. Cheap ass me, I found a black hole cover for the clutch perch mirror hole. The front brake clamp, I turned it upside down. Your option will look a lot cleaner than mine.
You need a curvy road to get rid of chicken strips. What I recall from the mid-west is straight roads with little or no elevation changes, unlike the Great Pacific Northwest.

I used the word "we" when I posted about the Doookers coming and crashing at your house. It was mostly all inclusive and I was thinking we could fill one side of a 737 out of Los Angeles with all the south-central coast orange blossums. Just to keep you from getting thrown a "curve" we will eliminate the Nerds from being aloud to join the party.
Just how many bikes? I am not riding bitch or willing to carry one either
You, my friend are a fine judge of character

I bought a FJR 1300, a 2003. I saw a expose on Two Wheel Tuesday, and Randy Mamola rode one in Spain and loved it. Site unseen, deposit to get one, twelve grand after taxes, never got allong with it all. They sure are a pretty bike. I do not think Yamaha could be beat on style back then.
Do you go to Colt games.
I went to the first GP in Indy, I rode there and headed east after and rode through a swath of devestation all the way to West Virginia. I rode there to smell and hear the two strokes that have left our stage and was pissed to have them cancelled.
I think the canes name was Ivan or Ivan was the one that cancelled the VIR event the year before. I was all the way to Bolwling Green Kentucky before they cancelled that race. Ride to the races is supposed to be easier.

That SF is freaking ugly.
I also use CRG's bar end. Got used to them on my old Honda 919 and transfer those to the Duke.
I have wide shoulders and regular mirrors sux

Ok, got the CRG Arrow mirrors installed, and I have to say I love them! Not only do they look great, the view behind is outstanding. I could use some advice on installing the clutch perch cap, it's hinged on one side and held together with a roll pin. Won't be that hard to press it out, but not sure how to press in the new one with the unit hanging free from the bars?

Here are the new mirrors, and yes, I did remove the old ones...





Here is the brake side cap, it was an easy two bolt install...



Here's my dilemma on the clutch side. Figure I'll have to rig some sort of table under the clutch lever so I have a firm work space to press the roll pin into the new bracket...

Nice ! Now you can see the whole road in front of you. Just don't forget about the late bitch on your six!
A small press can work but you have to remove the lines and re-bleed. A small machinest vice could press the pin out without removing the clamp from the lines.
This is how I would / will remove the roll pin. Get the largest drift punch that will pass thru the hole and a small hammer. Move the clamp as far as you can to the right but still on the straight section of the bars. Now make a backing to hold the clamp inplace as you tap the pin thru. Use a flat bar, 1/8 inch thich to rest against the plastic switch housing to spread the load. Place a small socket between the flat bar and the clamp to drive the pin thru. Snug the clamp / socket / flat bar / placstic switch housing all together. Snug the fastener just over finger tight. The roll pin should not take a lot of force to remove.

Replacing the pin .....MIght be a combo of a small "C" clamp or the trusty hammer and larger drift punch with the flat bar socket combo you used to remove the pin. If you are using the FORD or DRIBBLE tool (hammer), wrap your handle bars with some rubber cushion of some sort to avoid pecker marks

Well Indy, I think you now have the best mirrors on the market money can get. Frickin' ART....Enjoy...others will too. You will be hearing alot of "WOW"S"

I personally like your bar end mirrors( I want first dibs on those if you sell them). The mirrors you put in look a little to big for my taste and don't quite compliment the lines on the duke. But aside from that its your bike and whatever makes you happy in the long run is what matters. They do look like quality pieces though.

i think i punched it out with a drift and installed it the same way. i remember it was easier than i thought it would be.

Got a story about a "C" clamp, a Yamaee TT500 and a bad top end. I bought this bike w/ 500 miles on it. The PO installed a larger carb and free flow exuaust. It never ran right. If you got it started it would smoke so bad you could not see thru the smoke. I got pissed at it and tore the head off. I wanted to see the valve guides and the bore. Not having the correct valve spring removal tool, I MIckey Moused a large "C" clamp and a hand wrench to compress the valve spring to remove the valve keeper. Shit happened quick and the keeper shot out and hit my top front tooth...HARD....Oh fook that stung. I thought for sure I broke my tooth. I cracked it, a hair line. I went to the doc and that fooker tried his damnest to break it out. WTF are you doing??? It healed back it's self.
Moral of this story is eye protection and use the correct tool for the job and look out with the "C" clamp ! If the keeper would have hit my eye it might have put it out.
Oh! My fix on the bike was a over bore and new piston and valve guides. The shop reshaped the carb slide with a rat tail file to match a bike with the same mods. Lots of TT 500's used for flat track / TT bikes. The origional shape made it run like it was running on choke all the time. Ran great after that.

+ 3 with drift pin and small hammer.

Yo SDNerd. I think you will like these small bar end mirrors if you get a chance to use them. They are a little higher than what you might think and are not hard to use. They really do give you a better view of the road in front of you. They are CNC 'ed and works of art.

I've been using the arrow mirrors for some time now. I like them! They don't vibrate.., solid, adjustable and visibility behind is great. You do have to adjust to looking down briefly . I don't miss the stockers at all.

Oh, the life of a builder. You SD worshipers are busy talking nuances in the myriad make up of mirrors and I am looking at the steep roof and second story dormer tie in. I have never seen a shingle like that. Surely it is not slate? it looks to be a three tab designer composition product. I was lucky enough to ride the Indy track on the day following the innaugerable GP I stood up on the bike and shot a picture of the brick start-finish line while crossing at 308kph. It was a special memory i put in the rearview mirror of my mind. There was a silly joke I heard about an Indian appleless, but it has faded out of the mirrors view, I like mooorsickles and have only pissed in three countries. So I am not worthy to enter pissing contests that have moved into the global scale. That is reserved for world class dicks

Right there with ya SDNerd. I would want stockers if I lived in a highly populated area too. I live in the sticks and ride 10mph faster than traffic and hardly ever get tailgated or passed. You should have seen my right palm after my trip to Jawbone last month. A death grip on the loud handle thru San Fran area and south on I-5. I almost kicked a side window out of of a slammed rice car that wanted my lane. All of this at 75 mph, bumper to bumper. I don't know how you guys do it all the time.

I most dog piled into another rider who was trying to see where I was when he was looking into a bar end mirror years ago. We all took off on a straight road from a dead start but I gave them a little head start. We were over the ton when I was gain on them big time. They both got of the gas and I was still on it wanting to show off. He had his face off center from the bike and trying to find me in those little bar end mirrors. He went wide into my line. I just squezzed by the far side of the road with 20-30mph faster then them ...maybe more. Scared the crap out of me.

Size matters.

[quote="DougFir"]I most dog piled into another rider who was trying to see where I was when he was looking into a bar end mirror years ago. We all took off on a straight road from a dead start but I gave them a little head start. We were over the ton when I was gain on them big time. They both got of the gas and I was still on it wanting to show off. He had his face off center from the bike and trying to find me in those little bar end mirrors. He went wide into my line. I just squezzed by the far side of the road with 20-30mph faster then them ...maybe more. Scared the crap out of me.

ive never had a problem with them, but... i never totally rely on mirrors anyway, ill always take a quick look over a shoulder before i make a lane change or to see where another rider is. and i usually only ride with either my brother or a close buddy.

I was concerned about looking down at the bar end mirrors as well, I'm tall and also sit high in the saddle, plus I wear progressive lense glasses and was afraid that I'd not be able to see clearly. The fact that they actually sit above the bar though makes them work fine for me, the optical quality of the lense is outstanding and the added bonus of having them far out to the sides more than makes up for their relatively small size.

Ran into one glitch though, one of the mirrors had a manufacturing defect and was loose in the up and down detent positions, moved around too much instead of staying locked in place. I talked to KTMTwins where I had ordered them, they were fantastic in their customer service and immediately shipped another one out the same day, after inspecting all their stock for similar defects, and sent a shipping return label for the defective one. Major points!

Received the replacement mirror today, installed it along with the clutch bracket sans mirror mount. No big deal punching out the pin and pressing in the new one with a C clamp, thanks for the advice. Also installed a set of Pazzo levers while I was at it, perfect compliment for the CRG Arrow mirrors.

Looks good! Really opens the view of the road up, doesn't it. I got another mod that I am thinking about in this area. I think the stock bars have too much pull back. When I am casually riding down the road and look at my grip on the bars, the natural position of my left wrist is not parallel to the bars. The KTM SE model bars have less pull back and are more suited to the natural alignment to my wrist. Might be too much dirt bike feel for you....I have many years and smiles on dirt....just another thought for ya.....