Picked up the new bike yesterday and wow what a bike. But on returning home I ride down my alleyway and find its a lot tighter than my old bike despite the measurements ducati give compared to my old bike. Then to find I can't get through the gate without taking a mirror off. Imagine this.... Sat on bike between two houses at a gate in full leathers with dogs locked in the kitchen so I can get the bike away, stuck at the gate with a bike to wide to go through. Shouting instructions at the misses through my helmet trying to explain where the tools are and she still can't hear me. Then removing a mirror to get in. I know the originals are a fixed stem and the 1199 mirrors won't fit. I like the original mirrors if only they rotated in!!!! My question is... Does anyone know a way of making the mirrors fold?
I have the option of a new gate which I'm waiting for the steel delivery but it would have been nice to have a little more room to spare. Bloody wooden frame and the door encroaching further too doesn't help.
Yeah it was frustrating. 15meters in with 2 inches each side then the gate frame. Without the mirrors there is plenty of room just a little tight at the frame.
Haha this was the first thing I thought about when I saw the 1299!! I removed the mirrors from my 1199 a while back as I was spending most of the time with them folded back when in London traffic, and whenever I got out of traffic they vibrate too much anyhow so pretty much a waste of space imo. If I couldn't remove them I'd have to go back to not being able to squeeze through tiny gaps in traffic!
I don't have the problem of London traffic but losing about 5 1/2 inches of alleyway due to frames and gates I have succumbed to getting the welder out of retirement and using my account with my local steel stockholders to make a new gate at the front of the alleyway that folds flat to the wall with a lost frame. Seeing as I'm at it I think I'll make my dads gas bottle locker which I said I would a long time ago.
