Kawasaki Triples Club

The other issue is that the fixing is now SO corroded that I can't undo it to fit it without mullering it

So a £300 mirror......gone....

It wasn't actually a bucket that I left it on . . . . it was the "Stainless Steel" grill

Rick.......since moving to the coast and only a couple of hundred of yards.....yes yards not fukin meters from the North Sea I have found out what "Real" stainless steel is all about.....at the vey least it needs to be A316 marine grade.......even that tarnishes though. The fabrication guy .....a biker that's doing the balcony steel and glass with me says there are 2 more higher grades....the name eludes me at the moment, but its used on filtration plant on oil rigs.....A2 ......don't go there.....

Bring back "Made in Sheffield"

El Presidente wrote:Bring back "Made in Sheffield"

What they made bikes in Sheffield?

Gary T

I bought a box of about 20 mirrors a long while ago from an old dealer some with the flag on some without to fit my old W1's
What i have worked out is that the first type with the bent top arm (pic 1) fitted the '66/67 W1 only and was part # 56003-002 LH
and there was a #56002-012 for the RH which i am looking for. These mirrors were probably fitted to the pre'67 Meguro models.
In 1967/68 they replaced them both with 56002-011 which had the flags on but fitted both sides and a dome nut for adjustment (pic 2).
In 1969 Kawasaki dropped the flag logo altogether and the W and A series had full painted tanks with Kawasaki on them instead of the flag logo badges.
The same year they dropped the flag emblem from the mirrors and they became part# 56001-005 (pic3) (same mirror no logo) which would be correct for the early H1
(unless the dealers used earlier ones from stock). Now there were 2 types of these , one type has the dome nut for adjustment and another type has a cross head screw.
I have 2 types and an empty box with part# 56001-003-2 so the other one with the cross head screw could be this number , anybody know ?
Phil

Phil do you wanna sell mirror no2 ????? Cheers Rob.

Sorry Rob i used them up on by bikes and sold the spares a while back . Not sure if they do copies in Japan , i can check.
Phil

Hi, you can get this type as a repro in Japan and probably here. Why do you need the type with the flag ?
Phil

Everyone wants the flag one Phil for there early bikes especially 69H1"s

Thought mirrors were for seeing what’s behind you, are we getting a bit anal here lads ,? Having several British classics in my collection and being in several clubs reminds me of the way I was picked on for having a Whitworth bolt where there should be a BSF one and so on , Joined the featherbed special owners club in the end and built my THREE IN A BED special just to piss people off JH

Southside Johnny wrote:Thought mirrors were for seeing what’s behind you, are we getting a bit anal here lads ,? Having several British classics in my collection and being in several clubs reminds me of the way I was picked on for having a Whitworth bolt where there should be a BSF one and so on , Joined the featherbed special owners club in the end and built my THREE IN A BED special just to piss people off JH

Good for you.

When I had my H1a new in 1971 bolts broke regular and things fell off and I used whatever would fit. Spares were just about non existent from that shower of shit Agrati as they had to get everything from Holland.

Easy Eric..... Thanks for reply Phil.....I know Ralf was having them made in S A but his guy stopped making them....any more info would be good. One of my 69s is early enough to wear that mirror. Malc.....is the club not rich enough to make some mirror heads???? Tooling would be the big expense I know but after that bang bang bang.......on a press I mean....

You look in to the costs Rob then put the proposal to the commmitee

Southside Johnny wrote:Thought mirrors were for seeing what’s behind you, are we getting a bit anal here lads ,? Having several British classics in my collection and being in several clubs reminds me of the way I was picked on for having a Whitworth bolt where there should be a BSF one and so on , Joined the featherbed special owners club in the end and built my THREE IN A BED special just to piss people off JH

This is how restoration has gone with many peoples obsession to detail overcoming coming all sense of reasonable cost.
The ebay watch in the magazine shows the lengths some people will go to to get that exclusive part.
I set myself a limit of $100 for a "flag "mirror for my 69H1 but the only one I found had a starting price of a $100 with a BIN price of $250! It was poorly listed so I gambled that no one else would find it and paid the $100 starting bid. The last original mirror (no flag) I put a pal on to at a local dealer (NOS) was £52 maybe 6/7 years ago?
Im not sure how much a repro handle bar mounted mirror is now ?

I felt I did the whole 69H1 at a reasonable cost swapping parts in many cases that had cost me little in the USA for services provided and for parts.
I documented it in the magazine and having sold off a few more parts since (cables) etc the whole Bike inc purchase of the bike and restoration cost me just over £5000.

I hadnt restorated a bike since I finished the 350 American Eagle in 2008.

Only bikes I intend to restore in the future is the "Tony Foale" framed H2 which is mostly done and sat in the loft in boxs in the garage.Ive owed it since 2005 having paid £1800 for it and the H2R which Ive now collected most of the missing (expensive) parts for.

I know people who hsve bought a complete bike for one part
Removed the part and moved the bike on

Gary T

scouse wrote:I know people who hsve bought a complete bike for one part
Removed the part and moved the bike on

Gary T

me too was a S2A with brand new S2 exhausts the guy bought it for the exhausts, swap with his early S2 pipes in VGC fited on his 71 S2 then sold the S2A with early S2 pipes to me.

These are available in Japan for about £35

Thanks Phil..... Simon does repops with the dome head nut for £20 a pair...