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1Back to top Go down   Sometimes I even impress myself... Empty Sometimes I even impress myself... Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:41 pm

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Last summer I picked up a 68K 86 K100RS for $750 becuase the PO couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start other than with starter fluid in the air box but I figured that since it ran with starter fluid that it couldn't be too hard to fix.  When I got it home I pulled off the gas cap and noticed that one of the hose clamps for the fuel filter was missing and the pressure from the fuel pump had blown the hose off.  Five minutes and a hose clamp later and I had a running bike.  It came with a brand new Westco AGM battery and new tires so I definitely got my money's worth.

It had some minor rash on the right side and mirror that I could've fixed but, seeing as I already have a few RS faired bikes, I decided to make it a lighter "city bike" by redoing it with some extra parts I had lying around - a K75C fairing, a radiator shroud from a standard K100 and a K75 belly pan.  I spent much of last July replacing just about everything on it with either new or lower mile parts.  MAF, TBs, coils, spark plug leads, 50A alternator, ICU, L-Jet, fuel lines etc... I also swapped in some newer forks with a fork brace since the early K100RSs had the one piece fender and no fork brace. Stainless brake lines, blah, blah blah....

Earlier this year I decided to replace the stock 31:11 final drive with a 32:10 K75 FD which, although it bumps up the RPMS a bit, makes it zippier than a stock K100 so I'm glad I tried that.

Anyhow, the thing that amazes about about this bike is how well it starts.  Despite my having only installed a 15A AGM battery to save a little weight and a few pennies, from bone cold it starts nearly instantly without choke or anything. It's the 18th of the 19 Ks I've owned and I've never seen one this eager to run.


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Current stable:
86 Custom K100 (standard fairing, K75 Belly pan, Ceramic chromed engine covers, paralever)
K75 Frankenbrick (Paralever, K11 front end, hybrid ABS, K1100RS fairing, radial tires)
86 K75C Turbo w/ paralever
94 K1100RS
93 K1100LT
91 K1
93 K75S (K11 front end)
91 K75S (K1 front end)
14 Yamaha WR250R
98 Taxi Cab K1200RS
14 K1600GT
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"Last summer I picked up a 68K 86 K100RS for $750..."

Good one!

We're the hell are these bikes? I'm not seeing them?


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martyman

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Sweet deal no pics is a crime...

    

Crazy Frog

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martyman wrote:Sweet deal no pics is a crime...
Martyman, you don't want to be crying when you see the pics. Hey we don't get these deals in Canada


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Sometimes I even impress myself... Frog15Sometimes I even impress myself... Logo2101986 k75, 1985 K100rt, 1985 K100rt/EML GT2 sidecar, 1999 K1200lt/Hannigan Astro Sport sidecar.
    

Arlina

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In Netherlands that's about the price for a running K  Cool


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Sometimes I even impress myself... Eu-log10  K1100RS/LT - R1200RT - R1100RS - Cagiva SST 350 Ala Verde - K75LT project - K75 Schurgers - K75S - K1100RS - K75RT - K75C
    

Rick G

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I picked up the K75c and a K100RT both 1986 models for $1500 and all that was wrong with the K100 was starter brushes. I told him 12 months ago to fix them or bring it over and I would do it but no he just wanted a R1150GS and then as soon as his wife rode it she abandoned the K75 and wanted an R1150R then they needed money to go to the Alice Springs Ulysses AGM and so they came to see me and asked if I wanted them so I took out the wallet and emptied $1500 on the table and said there its all I have between me and starvation and they took it.


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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


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"...so I took out the wallet and emptied $1500 on the table..."

But you're married?!?

I wouldn't have $1500 sitting around, even if I was playing Monopoly!


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8Back to top Go down   Sometimes I even impress myself... Empty Re: Sometimes I even impress myself... Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:35 pm

Rick G

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They rang me the day before so I went to the bank and got $2000 out and put $500 in the back section of the wallet and play the part.


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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


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