New mirrors day

[PCeBiker]

And my Hafny mirror,..

I didn't use that mirror for long before I replaced it.
I'm sure it would have broken if I ever dropped the ebike.


This is one of the times my ebike fell over and the West Biking mirrors survived,..

 

[BlackHand]

Those failed twice for me - plastic is not durable and prone to cracking unfortunately. Great they work for you! They are nice mirrors.

Yeah, not sure why our experiences have been so different. I think our bikes and usage are pretty similar.

Glad the ones you switched to have held up.

 

[PCeBiker]

,.. E13 broken at the same exact place before switching to current metal ones.

Do your new metal ones have an adjustable pivot at the clamp?

My plastic version was locked in one position and I had to almost completely remove the bolt before the arm would rotate out of the way.

I would have glued a piece of an Allen key into the bolt head so I could loosen it easily, but not if it needed half a dozen full rotations to loosen it enough.

 

[ava1ar]

Do your new metal ones have an adjustable pivot at the clamp?

No. Those claps are re-used from my old Hafny mirrors and pretty much same as yours. So yes, adjustments are quite tedious to do, but I don't need to do them often. The clamps from my mirrors were very bulky to be used on my quite small and busy handlebars, so keeping the old clamps was reasonable compromise which worked.

 

[ava1ar]

Yeah, not sure why our experiences have been so different. I think our bikes and usage are pretty similar.

Glad the ones you switched to have held up.

Well, probably matter of terrain and distances. Do you ride outside of smooth pavement? How many miles you have with these mirrors so far?

New mirrors are all-metal, not much to break there. Main challenge was mounting and limited adjustment options.