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Title: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on July 15, 2020, 03:03:25 PM

Mirrors.
4 scooters by 4 different manufacturers.
Vietnam, China, Japan, Thailand.
None of the mirrors worked for me.
Took months to source solutions:
3 longer stems, one different jacket.

Just more proof that scooters are not made with normal sized Gringo shoulders in mind.

Major Tom
PS- NO problem with scooter mirrors?
I'm happy for you little dudes😊

Title: Re: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: john grinsel on July 15, 2020, 03:16:36 PM

Solution usually easy and cheap---Old Honda CB750 mirrors, long stem---Dennis Kirk source for me..this is for scooter with handlebar mounted mirrors

Mirror problems caused by industry leaders who do not ride, designers who don't realize winter clothes make you even wider....and marketing people who do not ride and want these bikes to be sold---I say they should be assigned 2000 miles mid winter trip in US or Europe!!  Then things may change.

Title: Re: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: Neil955i on July 15, 2020, 03:58:42 PM

Totally agree.  Stem extenders currently in use which all but solved the problem.

Title: Re: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: Kansas kymco on July 15, 2020, 05:13:49 PM

Purchased long stem mirrors for my People 150, they worked great. The only thing I could see out of the stock mirrors was my shoulders.

Title: Re: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on July 15, 2020, 07:33:36 PM

Quote from: john grinsel on July 15, 2020, 03:16:36 PM

Solution usually easy and cheap---

Not expensive, but not always easy to source a good solution for a mirror issue, which doesn't look cobbed on, wrong-biked, or Chinese ebay part.
A eureka moment came for me when I noticed that my son's Honda CB500X black mirrors were a dead match for my Forza's black mirrors - but with a longer stem!
Solved the problem with my Burgman mirrors after several months of searching when I found a bike shop in the U.K. selling perfect match, correctly threaded, chrome rods to extend my Burgman's mirror stems by 2".

Both fixes looked absolutely stock.

And can't fault Asian scooter makers for selling scoots or bikes with mirrors too short for Americans. We don't buy enough of their products  for them to notice. Fitting ourselves on a scooter is our problem, not theirs. We're lucky they sell any scooters here.

Stig

Title: Re: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: TBR125 on July 15, 2020, 10:56:48 PM

I'm not narrow shouldered but my lack of vertical stature allows for sufficient rear visibility with stock mirrors.

Title: Re: Pet peeve about scooters
Post by: mine88 on July 15, 2020, 11:01:54 PM

Then you get some brilliant person who adds the signal lights to the mirrors.