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| If you have issues with the mirrors on your Vision, here is a solution...
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Visionary
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | Too distracting for me........... |
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Lusby,Md | What about riding two up? Will be looking at the wife |
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Iron Butt
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Peru, IN | vic2004-08 - 2013-06-09 4:47 PM
What about riding two up? Will be looking at the wife
That would be a deal breaker for me, right there. :D |
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Tourer
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Central Illinois | MM I have no objection to looking at my wife, but failing to show the traffic behind me is a "critical failure". So far I am not impressed by my Vision. My Vision rear views show me the next lane of traffic fairly well. The only problem I am having is seeing what is directly behind me. If I want to see that. I must lean well out to the right or left and view my "standard" mirror images. If I move far enough to the right or left, the standard mirrors show what is directly behind me. It is not as I would expect from a well designed mirror system. It is more something that I must accommodate when riding my Victory. |
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Dallas, Texas | This would require wearing a helmet. Pass. |
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Central Illinois | I do wear a helmet in all of my riding. If that is a failure, I will always fail. I even wear a fully functional armored jacket for all riding conditions. If that is a fail with you, so be it. I intend to survive well past my other brand specific fellows by being very conservative compared to them. Iluvink, if you do not care much for standard protections there is no way that I can ever convince you to take realistic protective measures. I wish you all of the best but hold little hope of you ever having a good outcome. Riding, like so many other things, is a trade off between possible and probable outcomes. I have little chance of surviving my riding as an over 65 male tour rider. On the other hand, I think that I represent many riders who ignore age and age related discrimination when deciding what and how often to ride. Many of us ride just because we like it. We owe nothing to anyone and we thus ride our own rides. As is often the case, we over-aged riders enjoy the company of younger riders who have yet to admit that they have any ride restrictions. I encourage any and all riders to ride their own ride. Each of us must make our own choices after all.
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Tourer
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Beer Collins, Colorado (there is no fort) | Simple fix for me was to add some convex wedge mirrors to the upper outside corners of the stock mirrors-no one's gonna sneak up behind me again.
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Puddle Jumper
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Leighton, IA | I did the same thing but then I mounted standard Vic mirrors on the brake and clutch reservoirs. Looks good and works like the original mirrors should have worked to begin with. So far, the only complaint I have about the VV is their crappy mirror design. As a matter of fact, I can't believe they got that design past DOT or NHTSB or whatever government agency has to approve stuff like that. And maybe that's one that Big Brother doesn't approve. I don't know.
In any event, the design of the Vision rear view mirror system just plain sucks and, IMHO, is totally unsafe. My recommendation, Oldman47, is to buy a set of mirrors from Vic and mount them on the reservoirs and you'll be happy. Guaranteed. |
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Central Illinois | Rider44, I actually have a pair of mirrors that I could use. My HD FLTRU had mirrors that I did not like, so I replaced them with other HD mirrors. If I decided to use them today, I would just need an adapter to fit my HD mirrors to my Vision. It would be fairly inexpensive. The HD to metric adapters are dirt cheap.
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Puddle Jumper
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Leighton, IA | I'd mount them, if I were you. If you don't like them really very little lost. But you'll find that you are no longer blind as to what is behind you. |
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Iron Butt
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Peru, IN | With the trunk off, you can see all kinds of stuff behind you. |
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Iron Butt
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Anderson, IN (48mi NE of downtown Indianapolis) | What happened to the discussion about the helmet? I like the concept. |
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Visionary
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Central Maryland | I like that helmet as well... but have yet to find a seller around here whom carries them. The only disadvantage that I would see with the Revue helmet; is that at night; headlights from cars behind you could cause an awful glare in that rear view mirror.... |
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Orlando | What size convex mirrors did you use and where did you get them? I like the concept and look and would like to do the same thing. |
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Iron Butt
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Orlando, FL | Here's a better solution if you have mirror issues. Just mount these puppies. Problem Solved!!
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Toronto, ON Canada | Oldman47 - 2013-06-09 7:20 PM
MM I have no objection to looking at my wife, but failing to show the traffic behind me is a "critical failure". So far I am not impressed by my Vision. My Vision rear views show me the next lane of traffic fairly well. The only problem I am having is seeing what is directly behind me. If I want to see that. I must lean well out to the right or left and view my "standard" mirror images. If I move far enough to the right or left, the standard mirrors show what is directly behind me. It is not as I would expect from a well designed mirror system. It is more something that I must accommodate when riding my Victory.
You probably already aware of this, however, I noticed when I pushed the mirror inboard I got a much better view of what was directly behind me and a little less of what was to the side. I take up about a 1/3 of the mirror but the view I get on the other 2/3 is great... the only problem I have is I cant see what the wife is doing and traffic in the same view....  Sometimes you need to know when she is putting up the "rabbit ears" behind your head when you think you're "stylin'
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Tourer
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Regina Saskatchewan Canada | Most people's mistake is turning the mirrors too far out. Turn them in and you will get a better view of what's directly behind you. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Leighton, IA | Crawford - 2013-06-12 9:16 AM
Most people's mistake is turning the mirrors too far out. Turn them in and you will get a better view of what's directly behind you.
Yes, I have to admit that I found that out.......eventually. And you're right, they do work much, much better than I originally thought.
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Puddle Jumper
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Orlando | I followed the post on the convex mirrors. They work great. I can now see who is next to me and who is behind me. I got the 2 inch mirrors and placed them at the top of my vision mirrors at the outside edge. |
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Cruiser
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| i turned the mirrors in and they work alot better, and I also have the adjustable spot mirrors. I rode for almost 6 months with them turned all the way out and never saw what was behind me. i still may install regular mirrors so i dont have to look at my hands anymore. The old mirror location might be a good spot to mount 6x9 speakers if you use the regular speaker location too. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Leighton, IA | Rick 106 - 2013-06-14 3:12 PM
i turned the mirrors in and they work alot better, and I also have the adjustable spot mirrors. I rode for almost 6 months with them turned all the way out and never saw what was behind me. i still may install regular mirrors so i dont have to look at my hands anymore. The old mirror location might be a good spot to mount 6x9 speakers if you use the regular speaker location too.
Now I don't feel quite to bad, Rick, because I did the same thing. Hated those mirrors. Once I pushed them on the inner/lower corners, I could see what was directly behind me. I don't really mind seeing my hands, I can ignore them. I just wanted to see what was directly behind.
So, I have to take back all I said bad about the Vision mirrors. They do, in fact, work just fine. They work so well that I've removed the handlebar mounted mirrors. No longer need them. And, as a result, I'm a happy camper. |
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Cruiser
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| I think what throws many people off is the trunk on the our models. If youre not used to that, it does take time to get used to not seeing like a naked bike or cruiser. |
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Puddle Jumper
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| Rider44 - 2013-06-14 4:20 PM
Now I don't feel quite to bad, Rick, because I did the same thing. Hated those mirrors. Once I pushed them on the inner/lower corners, I could see what was directly behind me. I don't really mind seeing my hands, I can ignore them. I just wanted to see what was directly behind.
So, I have to take back all I said bad about the Vision mirrors. They do, in fact, work just fine. They work so well that I've removed the handlebar mounted mirrors. No longer need them. And, as a result, I'm a happy camper.
Now you have your Vision mirrors angled inwards, all you need to do is mount a pair of 2" or 3" convex rotating mirrors on the top inside of your Vison mirrors, and have the convex mirrors angled outwards as far as possible. This makes use of the inner third of your mirrors where you can currently only see your hands, so you lose nothing and gain great rear and peripheral views.
They look like this....
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/Pilot-Automotive-3-3-4...
Pete
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Cruiser
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Westchester Co., NY | I am not sure that the threads of the HD mirrors will match that of the Vision. I believe the mirrors need to be ones designed for metric bikes. |
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Tourer
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Beer Collins, Colorado (there is no fort) | efd158 - 2013-06-16 1:45 PM
I am not sure that the threads of the HD mirrors will match that of the Vision. I believe the mirrors need to be ones designed for metric bikes.
http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/3/14/138/14906/ITEM/Drag-Speci... |
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Tourer
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Central Illinois | The thread pitch matching adapters are your solution to having tons of mirrors to select from. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Metro-Detroit Michigan | I found a pair of stick on mirrors for $4.00 at Autozone with the same shape of my mirrors. By placing these stick on mirrors on the stock mirrors on the upper outsize corners, I have a perfect view of that which is behind me. Moreover, the staff at the dealership informed that everyone walking in the service area noticed the mirrors and requested that I be questioned regarding the place of purchase and cost so that they may copy what I had done for themselves. |
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Visionary
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Pittsburgh, PA | NewVicVision - 2013-06-17 6:00 PM
I found a pair of stick on mirrors for $4.00 at Autozone with the same shape of my mirrors. By placing these stick on mirrors on the stock mirrors on the upper outsize corners, I have a perfect view of that which is behind me. Moreover, the staff at the dealership informed that everyone walking in the service area noticed the mirrors and requested that I be questioned regarding the place of purchase and cost so that they may copy what I had done for themselves.
now thats a good idea... ill be damned if im going to slap some aftermarket mirrors to my handlebars.... lol how silly would that look.. |
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Iron Butt
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Peru, IN | The threaded holes are 10mm with a standard metric bike thread. Any mirrors meant for a metric bike (other than a few of the backwards threaded Yamahas) will screw right in to the clutch/brake reservoirs. There are 1000s of different mirror options for metrics. |
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Cruiser
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Fargo, ND | The helmet is from a British company and it is built in Italy. It was featured on high tech 360 on discovery
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Iron Butt
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Manchester, CT | Fellow Riders...I've experimented with a few configurations...the best I have found is
Victory mirror left and right turned in, each view focused on the middle of the trunk out - gives you cars directly behind you. lane parallel to you and slightly into the 2nd lane over. Rectangular convex mirror mounted to the upper right corner facing out - full peripheral vision including blind spot coverage and right as vehicle next to you crosses the blind spot/along side of you as it enters into your peripheral vision. Mounted mirrors using the OEM mount points. Angled so it slightly overlaps the OEM mirrors. This gives you the big picture view directly parallel to you and full view back minus directly behind you (someone tailgaiting). Granted the additional mirrors may be ergonomically slightly impacted but the safety for me trumps everything else
I really can't capture the configuration as ever rider's height, riding position etc will vary.
Hope this helps. |
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New user
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| I had the 91-852 chrome or 91-853 black from Highway Hawk on my 2010 Vision. Nice convex view and low profile so they don't stick way up. Must have the clutch and brake controls with the threaded holes to mount them. Just pull the plastic plugs. |
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