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Offline martin_14

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additional lights under the mirrors: what mount?
« on: August 11, 2015, 07:14:08 AM »
could somebody provide pics and description of how they mounted additional lights from the mirrors? I assume it means using the 3 little (M5?) screws holding the mirror to the bracket, right? And what about the plastic part that covers the bracket?
After my accident some months ago I replaced the broken bracket (which is not sold separately, so I got it off a mirror from eBay in not-so-good shape, but the bracket was pristine; unlike mine, were the bracket was gone but the mirror was only slightly scratched). Yesterday I was bored so I took that ugly mirror and performed some surgery on it, and among other things I learnt how to take off the painted cover without braking any of the 4 tabs  8)  I knew that PhD was going to pay off one day  ;D
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Re: additional lights under the mirrors: what mount?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2015, 01:21:07 PM »
You can use these for small lights. http://www.pca-one.com/productDetail.asp?productID=7899&RetURL=search&search=bike&bikeType=&bikeMake=Kawasaki&bikeModel=Concours  or check with  clearwater to see if you can buy one of theres,I know right now that clearwater is in the process of updating there mounts for 2010 and up.

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Re: additional lights under the mirrors: what mount?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2015, 03:17:29 PM »
could somebody provide pics and description of how they mounted additional lights from the mirrors? I assume it means using the 3 little (M5?) screws holding the mirror to the bracket, right? And what about the plastic part that covers the bracket?
After my accident some months ago I replaced the broken bracket (which is not sold separately, so I got it off a mirror from eBay in not-so-good shape, but the bracket was pristine; unlike mine, were the bracket was gone but the mirror was only slightly scratched). Yesterday I was bored so I took that ugly mirror and performed some surgery on it, and among other things I learnt how to take off the painted cover without braking any of the 4 tabs  8)  I knew that PhD was going to pay off one day  ;D

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Re: additional lights under the mirrors: what mount?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2015, 05:23:09 PM »
I haven't mounted any under the mirrors, but in planning ahead to do so I looked at those PCA adapters an decided that they only served aesthetics so that the lights aren't mounted at an angle. I think that 1 extra long stainless screw (or threaded rod with nuts) with an aluminum tube spacer would do the job. The lights would still be adjustable in two axes (yes I checked, axes is the plural of axis but it still doesn't look right), just angled a bit to match the angle under the mirror mount, but you'd still be able to aim the light where you wanted it.

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Re: additional lights under the mirrors: what mount?
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2015, 07:53:00 AM »
I've posted this a few other places, but here is the short version

I made brackets to mount on the body that place the lights in a similar position as under the mirrors.  Cost was almost nothing as I had the metal in a scrap pile, and just rattle can painted in the garage. 



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Re: additional lights under the mirrors: what mount?
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2015, 04:04:46 PM »
could somebody provide pics and description of how they mounted additional lights from the mirrors? I assume it means using the 3 little (M5?) screws holding the mirror to the bracket, right? And what about the plastic part that covers the bracket?
After my accident some months ago I replaced the broken bracket (which is not sold separately, so I got it off a mirror from eBay in not-so-good shape, but the bracket was pristine; unlike mine, were the bracket was gone but the mirror was only slightly scratched). Yesterday I was bored so I took that ugly mirror and performed some surgery on it, and among other things I learnt how to take off the painted cover without braking any of the 4 tabs  8)  I knew that PhD was going to pay off one day  ;D

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