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I mean, how many times can we kick something with so may connections up and down over time before the "kinetic chain" needs attention . . . I have seen V11 with this series of fasteners just rattled apart, simply needing a good fettling, tightening, and lubrication . . .

Congratulation on re fitting the airbox, good move. The crem de la crem of mirrors are Rizomas from my experience and congrats again upon ridding yourself of the Mickey Mouse ear mirrors. Rizomas come in various styles but I run these. Bar end weights. Standard are best. Phil

Yep, this happened to me early in my ownership! Sorting the linkages out stopped it completely! Cheers Guzzler

I think I'm looking at about €14,-. Customs want something like €7.50, and the post wants a €6.00 handling charge. That's Germany. If you don't like it, go and live somewhere else...

As a general position on technical things I have little regard for "who invented it" or who came up with the original concept or design. My admiration goes to those who perfected or refined the original design or concept into something outstanding. Thats where the real effort, skill and genius is. Some of course manage to do both but who the hell give a damn about the original thought bubble. We don't really care or are interested in the individual that created the first wheel or ancient rocket or bridge or a million other things what we are interested in is the people that came after and utilised the "concept" and made it into a functional, rational, safe and efficient thing. Some ancient Chinese person invented the rocket but it took a lot more smarts to create a Saturn 5 rocket to send man into space. Original thinking is overvalued, methodical development and perfection a design or concept is where the real respect deserves to be. Phil

Next, I would adjust and make tight the entire external shift mechanism. Best done with the starter off. Make sure the shift lever does not hit anything on the full up and down strokes in every gear. That is best done with the rear wheel suspended in order to rock the wheel a bit to get it into each gear.

I've seen those Mick but considering the cost my rationale is that the only time the reflector breaks is if you drop/crash the bike and if that happens hard enough to break the reflector then the whole mirror is generally junk anyway. Phil

Just buy the style you want and the adaptors (see my image). Mirrors are pretty much universal. You might need the thread size which I believe is 10mm. Left hand thread one side and right the other. Pitch is 10X1.25.

@mikev My V35 Imola and my Breva both have the same thread on both mirrors. That is the critical point. Some manufactureres have right-hand thread on both sides, some have one right-hand and one left-hand. Screw your mirrors off and have a look, and measure the diameter. It is likely to be a fine pitch thread, I think. The mirrors on the Imola are that for certain. On the strength of what you find you should be able to tell if the mirrors from other models or suppliers will fit or not. @Lucky Phil I'm a bit interested in this line of products. Stupidly expensive, but the mirrors are made of polished aluminium. No glass, so nothing to shatter. https://motogadget.com/collections/spiegel-englisch

Phil

Now that you called them Mickey Mouse @Lucky Phil, I have to change them.

for the sake of completeness.... The man's name is Roland Däs. The two dots above the "a" are called an Umlaut, literally "sound changer". If writing that letter on a keyboard that doesn't have the ä (or ö or ü), the correct way to write it is with "ae" (or oe or ue). So Däs becomes Daes (or könnten becomes koennten or Müller becomes Mueller). You may find that searching for Däs Mototec works better if you try Daes Mototec. Apart from anything else, "das" is the neutral article in German ("the" for things that are "it" rather than "he" or "she"...), so Das Mototec has a literal translation as "the Mototec".

Interesting that arrivals are similar in these different parts of the world. I put down the $12 value because it's a "sample" and so taxes and duties should be minimal. Hope the German charges are minimal. Will get onto the charitable donation for Pete shortly ands I'll advise when done.

I have an option to have onesies made; I do not have a price yet, so if DucGuzInd isn't up for a production run I'll get on that ASAP. I have to get a NDA in place before I give them the file.