New toys arrived today from Taiwan Big Scooter Shop!
I ordered a set of the forward-mount mirrors, with the hope that they would help narrow the profile of my bike to make filtering between cars in gridlock traffic a little easier. A constant necessity in a city of 23 million people who all insist on driving cars for some strange reason! I was forever slapping the cars' mirrors with my own, or having to do the 'wiggle and shimmy' dance to avoid them.
Plus, I think they look pretty bad-ass.
I was all stoked to put them on myself, and then realized I didn't have the right size socket wrench for the windshield bolts. No worries, there's a bike shop on every block and my guy down the street put the on for 10 bucks!
The kit was $85 plus $20 shipping from T.B.S.S. on eBay.
Here's shots from the install:
So far so good...it's going to take a little getting used to, but it seems to be easier to glance over at the mirrors in that position- don't have to move my head at all like I did with the bar-mounted ones. The profile is not quite as narrow as I had expected, but I think it will be an improvement nonetheless. It's after rush hour here, so I won't have a chance to see if they really help with filtering in traffic until tomorrow.
