How To: Install Rizoma Reverse Retro Mirrors (M1100S)

[StephenC]

I know this is easy stuff compared to most of the 'How To's on here, but I'm not mechanically inclined and looked for a good guide and couldn't find one.  Hopefully this will help somebody else, as impractical as me!

The parts supplied by Rizoma.


Not all the parts are needed, but you will need bar ends (in this case Rizoma 23mm).


Start by removing the old mirror, just undo the marked bolt.  Note that the right mirror (on the throttle side) is reverse threaded so is removed by turning clockwise.


There are several ways to tidy up the gaping hole you leave behind. I elected to just turn the clamp upside down, as I couldn't find plastic hole caps that would fit (1/4" I believe).



And then remove the stock bar end.  I used a combination of increasingly wide screwdriver blades and a pair of pliers to gently prise it out.

[StephenC]

Fit together the new bar end.  Note: the conical metal part on the left of the pictures is the threaded one and is on the opposite way around to the way it came in the pack.



Hand tighten the conical bolt, until it is snug against the funny metal spacer thingy (the technical term!).  Insert the whole thing into the end of the bar and tighten with an allen key.  Try to leave a small (1mm) gap between the bar end and the end of the grip, on the throttle side bar.  This lets the throttle turn freely.


Then attach the Rizoma mirror stalk.  You can hang them under the bar but this didn't look "right" to me so I did them this way.  I used the white spacer that came with the mirror.  It went on the clutch side easily but was a tight fit on the throttle side.  I think it would have fitted without the spacer but had to be really tightened and I was worried that the circle of the clamp was quite deformed by the time I got it to grip, so I used the spacer.


Finally screw on the mirror, with the supplied screw (it is hidden behind the first layer of foam in the box, if you can't find it!).


Enjoy!!

[StephenC]

The final result:

[jvax]

Nice writeup.  Easy mod, but makes the monster looks a lot better 

[uglyducky]

have the same mirrors.  non convex glass took some getting used to but i love em

[niles]

I couldn't find plastic hole caps that would fit (1/4" I believe).

http://www.mcmaster.com/#snap-in-plugs/=cngprw

Options in plastic and metal, metric and imperial. I'm guessing the hole is metric, but I could be wrong.

Cheers,
niles

[StephenC]

Thanks, but I found a set whilst trying to find a socket big enough to remove the rear-sets, when I am ready to do that mod.

[BlutoVT]

Hey, I was attempting to install these mirrors but I ran into a problem early on. When I pulled the stock bar ends off, the handles were hollow. There was nothing to screw into for the Rizoma bar end, like nothing to keep it from falling out. Am I missing something?

[ducpainter]

There should be a threaded expanding sleeve like in the pics above.

[BlutoVT]

Ok, I figured it out. The expanding sleeve comes with the mirror and NOT with the bar ends. The bar ends came with several different sized (diameter) rubber sleeves and I found one that was a snug fit. Once I got it inside the handle bar, it seemed to tighten up (expand?) when I tightened the bolt at the end of the bar end. I did all this before I found the sleeve/collet that came with the mirrors, but they feel very tight as is, so I'm gonna leave them in with the rubber sleeve.

[ducpainter]

FWIW...

my CRG mirror fell off with a rubber expanding dealio.

[BlutoVT]

Hmmm maybe I'll take the time to use those expanding collets 

Thanks for sharing

[militar3rd]

That's some nice set of Mirrors. Planning to do it on my M900, but I kinda like the no-mirror look 

[molascoa]

BUMP

Problem:  Rizoma end caps/bar ends spin inside the handle bar.  The rubber grommet secures the bar end so that it cannot be pulled out, but does not provide enough force to stop it from spinning inside the handle bar.






Below is a picture of the original bar end.  The bar end is tapered, hence cannot be used to mount a bar end mirror.  But its grommets provide the solution.





Remove the grommets and install them on the Rizoma bar end.





Below is a picture of the Rizoma bar end with the original bar end grommets installed.  This configuration will provide the pressure needed to secure the bar end firmly and stop it from spinning.

[oldndumb]

I know this is easy stuff compared to most of the 'How To's on here, but I'm not mechanically inclined and looked for a good guide and couldn't find one.  Hopefully this will help somebody else, as impractical as me!
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Well, Stephen, you may not think you are mechanically inclined, but I'm here to say that that is not true. You might not have fostered that talent but it is obviously there.

Good installation and writeup!