On the Road Again!

After a few days of letting them sit in the box we finally got around to fitting them to Molly. Firstly the new short arm mirrors were cleaned. Already in barely a month the left side one has a few scrapes on the edge from bushes and trees!   Fistly we did the driver's side as it has the hole for the temperature gauge.  The instructions are to lubricate the edges of the cover's beading with washing up liquid to ease them into place. This I did and used quite a bit. Then we removed the sticky sided tape covering and pressed it into place. It took quite a lot of force to get the cover to fit anywhere near the right place.  It doesn't fit flush with the edge of the mirror as it is expected/supposed to. We pressed and pushed and this is as far as it would go!  We repeated the same procedure with the left/passenger side. About the same level of force was used with the same result.... I just hope that leaving the tape to "cure" is enough to ensure that they don't fa...

Rather than spend less on the Milenco mirror protectors that we had before, and that proved useless when the left one took a bang, we have opted for Mirrorguard . Since fitting the new short arm mirrors we decided to save the cost of new ones, should we have a bang, and we would get the more expensive covers. These look much better quality than the Milenco ones. Inside they are lined with foam, "like a motorcycle helmet".  I certainly wouldn't wear one made and lined with this stuff when on the bike! Fitting looks straightforward and unlike the Milenco there's no little plastic bar screwed on to hold them in place. Instead there's sticky tape... I have to admit that this looks a little worrying to me! These also have a thick edge trim. They do look way more substantial than the Milenco covers. Time will tell. We opted for white as well that matches the body colour better than black. For the same price I could have bought silver/chrome.