Daft Question

[Ian Harris]

Could someone confirm what colour the "standard" mirrors on the 996R were? I have seen launch-test photos with what looks like carbon mirrors, but I have heard elsewhere that standard mirrors were red.

Reason for enquiry is that I forgot to remove mirrors before lobbing bike ever so gently down the road at Brands Hatch, and I need to buy some new ones (Spent 10 mins taping mirrors over instead of 2 mins removing them..how stupid is that?)

[Dibble]

how mullered are they Ian ???

As they are probably repairable.

The originals definately weren't carbon, in fact I believe they were black, but red ones look much nicer .......

[Ian Harris]

It is only the right - hand one, the retaining allen bolt pulled the threaded section out of the mirror, causing a crack in the casing,plus a nasty bit of gravel rash...maybe I'll just buy a R/H one off flea-bay.

[antonye]

Check how much they are new first (phone your local dealer) as I'm sure they're cheaper than you think.

Even the painted ones are only £45 quid or something each.

[Dibble]

aaah, sounds like the original shear bolt was replaced with a normal one as they usually snap quite easily ....

put a "wanted" ad up in "maret place" on here, someones bound to have one hanging around ......

[Rattler]

The originals were black I'm pretty sure, but most were swapped or painted red.

Tim

[Ian Harris]

Thanks for all the Info. I'll remain with the fetchingly colour-coordinated red ones then!

[BDG]

Ian

The originals were most definately PINK.








Sorry that was the daft answer, they were definately BLACK

[Edited on 23-6-2005 by BDG]

[smilo006]

Black, agree with dibble though.
As for the bolts, if no one has any knocking about then:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10448&item=7982426597
is an option.

[moto748]

I think they're only about 2 quid-odd new from a dealer anyway.


It's worth carrying a spare in your tool-kit. If a passing car clips your mirror, 9 times out of ten you can just screw it straight back on.