I\u2019d had enough of the stock mirrors on the DRZ, totally obstructing the view making it feel clumsy and \u2018special\u2019.<\/p>\n
But, with a failed delivery on some Highway Dirt\u00a0Bike\u00a0mirrors I was at a loss as to what to replace them with.<\/p>\n
Then I stumbled across these little understated handguard mirrors for $28 USD a pair on Motostrano.
\nChucked in a set of Zeta CP Pivoting levers so I could use a discount code, and a few days later all of my gear arrived.<\/p>\n
Turns out these mirrors are the perfect match for the PowerMadd hand guards I had already replaced the stock bark busters with, in fact they are PowerMadd mirrors made to fit the ATV guards I had, so I couldn\u2019t be happier with how things turned out. Don\u2019t know why the Motostrano site doesn\u2019t make it clearer on site.<\/p>\n
These mirrors are really clever. Simple to mount with plenty of options too. To install with the flip down mechanism, you have to drill one hole into your guard like this.<\/p>\n
Then you simply thread the bolt through onto a spring.<\/p>\n
Then bolt it on.<\/p>\n
From there you can flip it down and out of the way to make room for splitting, but this isn\u2019t a really solid easy movement that I\u2019d be attempting in traffic.<\/p>\n
The great thing about cheap dirt\u00a0bikes\u00a0is that everything comes apart with a 10mm spanner, a shifter and an allen key, so nothing takes very long to wrench on and off.<\/p>\n
Next up were some nice pivoting levers. The ZETA ones were on sale for $55 USD at Motostrano and with a coupon code for spending over $100 I scored a $25 discount off my total order. Nice.<\/p>\n
Levers are a piece of cake again with one 10mm spanner. Bam, shiny.<\/p>\n
Something still didn\u2019t sit right with the mirrors hanging out the end of the guards like that though, reminded me of flipping them in and out to split on the Hyper, which I remembered as quite annoying.<\/p>\n
So I took the guard covers out and lifted the mirrors up onto the inside of the bark buster, mounting it through a ventilation hole. Gold this is gold. It does three things. Reduces the width of teh bars, reduces the amount of vibration on the mirrors, and gives an unimpeded clear view from where I sit.<\/p>\n
The end result is visually, I think, quite pleasing.<\/p>\n
Could definitely do with a set of Fat Bars to get rid of that stabiliser bar\/pad and clean up the bars a bit more (yes Steve, you told me so). I\u2019d also like to get a Vapor trail tech dash \u2013 anything would be an improvement on the basic stock atari one.
\nBut for now there you have it, I\u2019ve literally made the mirrors disappear.<\/p>\n
Like I said, visually pleasing. Speaking of visually\u2026. I\u2019ve spent a few hours dicking around with the mirrors on the road now and visually you can\u2019t actually see a lot out of these mirrors. I found that by rotating them in the right spot, I can see past my elbows and a wee bit behind me but I\u2019m not phased. On a commute scoot like this I\u2019m either in pole position at the lights or doing a head check every single time I change lanes so the mirrors are really there just to keep the Po-Po away and that cursed yellow sticker.<\/p>\n
The below \u2018before & after\u2019 shot reminds me how far I\u2019ve come, and how much I\u2019ve enjoyed the journey. Wrenching on Dizzy myself I have learnt stuff I didn\u2019t think I was capable, nothing huge like doing a big bore kit, but stuff like taking the rear wheel off, installing the tail tidy, figuring out wiring looms etc. It\u2019s been a total blast and I can\u2019t wait to attempt the last large upgrade, the Yoshimura RS-4 exhaust<\/a> (that is finally in transit).<\/p>\n Wrenching dirt bikes<\/a> is fucking good fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019d had enough of the stock mirrors on the DRZ, totally obstructing the view making it feel clumsy and \u2018special\u2019. But, with a failed delivery on some Highway Dirt\u00a0Bike\u00a0mirrors I was at a loss as to what to replace them with. Then I stumbled across these little understated handguard mirrors for $28 USD a pair… Continue reading Making The Stock DRZ 400 Mirrors Disappear for $25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybikers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}