Sorry to hijack the thread but, inspired by the £12 clone CRG mirrors as above, I bought some and thought this might be of interest to someone.
As above I have the CRG on my Monster and have been very happy with them, I had a spare and decided to fit it to a bicycle as I ride around 15 miles a day as part of fitness campaign and find a mirror useful, especially if planning a RH turn.
I fitted the CRG, using a motorbike bar end but the bar end has a rubber bush/insert that expands in the bar and so is quite easily turned in the bar if the mirror mount gets knocked, as such I was planning to buy some more secure fitting bar ends.
The CRG clone mirrors at £12 a pair are about the same price (maybe even less?) than a decent set of solid bar ends and are supplied with the bar ends so I bought some.
Fitted today and been on an 18 mile (pushbike) ride and I have to say they are very good; design is the same as CRG (so a copy), the only visible differences that I can see are; the hinged bracket is black rather than ally coloured, the mirror surround/frame is a little slimmer (and doesn't have the 2 little retaining 'ears' in it), there is no 'CRG' logo etched into the mirror housing, the mirror is clear rather than lightly tinted as per the CRG, the finish of the casting is not quite as perfect but, overall very good and they have used conventional allen screws rather than the ones with the 'pilot' hole in the screw (probably a plus to most people as not using the correct key can round the screw easily).
Functionally the only criticism I have is the ball joint is not such a tight fit and so is easy to move the mirror position without undoing the allen screw (the CRG is very tight) and the mirror is slightly wobbly as the pivot bracket won't quite tighten up as much, both of these could likely be addressed with a bit of fettling e.g. by removing material from the inside of the clamp bracket? Long-term who knows if they'll last as long but I see no reason (except maybe the movement in the ball joint) why not?
But, the big difference is the price. IIRC I paid around £80 for the CRGs, 10 years ago and they are currently around £100 (or more) and that's without the bar end fittings which no doubt if genuine CRG would add a significant chunk to the price, whereas the ebay specials/clones are £12 including the bar ends.
In summary I'd say the CRG are better but not by a huge amount and given that they cost 10 x the ebay specials, it's a bit of a no-brainer if you're after this type of mirror.
