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1Back to top Go down   Old BMW rider, new to K100 Empty Old BMW rider, new to K100 Mon Sep 14, 2015 4:39 pm

sparkplug

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Hi all,

I've ridden an R1150GS as my main means of transport for ten years and it is with mixed emotions that I enter the world of K100's.

The very first time I went on the back of a 'proper' motorbike was with my dad on his 1988 K100RT. That would have been some time in the early 90s.

Although he lived in Italy and I'm in the UK we toured around the world together. The first trip together was in 1998 to the euro demo in Bonn. I had a Honda CB750 at the time. Probably the most special trip was the last one we did together to Nordkapp for his 70th birthday - my first big trip on the GS and dads last big trip on a bike.

Sadly dad died in December 2013 and so his K100RT is now mine and I'm in the final stages of importing it to the UK.

I got some great advice on the GS forums from Mike P who I believe was also a regular on here.

Mike will also be sadly missed.

So you see why I say it's mixed emotions to join the K100 community this way, but I look forward to it and to making sure dads old bike still gets ridden for as long as it can.

    

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Holister

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WeKome to the forum Sparkplug
It's great that your Dad's old RT has a 'safe' home.


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1989 K100RT     VIN  0097367 (naked)  
1996 K1100RS   VIN  0451808
 Old BMW rider, new to K100 Austra12    Fuel:  95 Octane
Engine Oil: Nulon Full Synthetic 15W50
Gear Box Oil:  Nulon Synthetic 75W90
    

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Rick G

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WelCome Sparkplug you'll find the answers to all things K here and many things that aren't.


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"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."   Dalai Lama


Bikes 1999 K1100 LT with a Big Block 1200
    

4Back to top Go down   Old BMW rider, new to K100 Empty Re: Old BMW rider, new to K100 Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:22 pm

92KK 84WW Olaf

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Welcome from the west too.

Seems you have the travel bug and we enjoy having K owners over from the UK. Had a few this year for a weeks camping around Ireland and we are already planning next years travels and a week or so around 3rd of June is on the cards.

I am off to Italy in July......

Olaf


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 48,061 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 61,190 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

5Back to top Go down   Old BMW rider, new to K100 Empty Re: Old BMW rider, new to K100 Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:05 pm

sparkplug

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Thanks all for the warm welcome and for the helpful replies I've already had on other threads.

I figured out how to post pics here now, so here's my dad with what is now my K100RT. 

As you can see, he was the real Father Christmas and the bike is called Rudolf, pictured here amongst friends in 2004 somewhere on the way to Nordkapp

Old BMW rider, new to K100 Ozio

    

6Back to top Go down   Old BMW rider, new to K100 Empty Re: Old BMW rider, new to K100 Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:12 pm

92KK 84WW Olaf

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Those are really nice posts.

Look where we K riders go for tea....[Mike D, 92KK, Ringfad, Comberjohn]

Old BMW rider, new to K100 P7200710

And a visit there with my son in 2010.......he is also a tea drinker. He now has a VFR800 Vtec and it doesn't shake off the K.

Old BMW rider, new to K100 Img00310


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 48,061 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 61,190 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

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