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1Back to top Go down   Hello from a french BMW addict Empty Hello from a french BMW addict Mon Mar 28, 2016 4:04 pm

jbt

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Hello there,
here I am, 45 years old, 25 on a BMW!
I live in the french Alps, near Switzerland, a wonderful area to ride.
I had my first BMW at 20, a K100RT; then many other bikes came and went away, probably about 150 or 200, I can't remember exactly. Nothing to do with a silver spoon oral birth, I buy cheap or very cheap bikes then overhaul them completely. This hobby eventually drove me to start a business dedicated to airheads restoration 4 years ago, that I'm currently closing because I 'd rather do a proper and original job than cutting tails to do so-called racers on inadequate bikes. So I'll have more time to work on my bikes.
I've also been working, in a previous life, as a motorcycle custom officer, spending hours and days riding K75RT and K1100LT, well, the way you ride it when it's your job and with a fine immunity. Just imagine...
I've always appreciated particularly the K1100LT, I had 2 on my own, as a daily commuting bike.
Currently, I ride a '85 basic K100 that is very enjoying, Hello from a french BMW addict K100_310

I've finished 2 months ago the restauration on an old dream,  a K1 (previously black, turned in the red/yellow version):
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I also ride a K75GS, made last year from a K75C with various BMW parts, trying to respect the pitch that it would have been what BMW should have made in 87.
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The next work on a K bike will probably be the preparation of a race K100 or K1100, to race on historic hillclimbs that I already practice with airheads. Or the restauration of a K1100LT, awaiting for its turn in the attic.

Apologizes if my english sounds weird sometimes, it's not my mother tongue...

Nice to meet you!



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Ringfad

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Welcome from Ireland.

That is a nice collection of K's


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   ;BMW; K100RS Style Black 1987 105K Km     ;BMW; K1 Black 1993 60K Km     ;BMW;  K1100RS Black 1996       ;BMW; K1 Blue 1990 25K Miles
    

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indian036

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Welcome from Oz as well. I'm sure Ringfad especially appreciates the K1. Very Happy

You may be close enough to meet in June, as I'll be between Chamonix and Geneva for a time. Very Happy

Bill


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1985 K100RT  VIN 0028991  My original Very Happy ROB the Red Old Bike   (Historic rego)
1985 K100RT  VIN 0029036  BOB the Blue Old Bike  (Historic rego)
1990 K100LT  VIN 0190452  Work in progress
1984 K100RT  VIN 0023022  Work needing lots of progress

1986 K100RT  VIN 0090542  Work needing lots and lots of progress
1993 K1100LT  VIN 0183046  Work in progress
1993 K75S  VIN 0213045  Tom the Triple (now on Historic rego too.)
    

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Point-Seven-five

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Welcome from New York State!  That is the nicest looking GS BMW I have ever seen.


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Present: 1991 K100RS "Moby Brick Too"
 
Past:
1994 K75RT "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"
1988 K100RS SE "Special Ed"
1994 K75S "Cheetos"
1992 K100RS "Moby Brick" R.I.P.
1982 Honda FT500
1979 Honda XR185
1977 Honda XL125
1974 Honda XL125
1972 OSSA Pioneer 250
1968 Kawasaki 175
    

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Crazy Frog

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Your English is as good as my Frenglish, but who cares...
Here we share passion, friendship and sometimes our personal feeling about general life. Sometimes, it could be hard to decipher slang but as an example, I rapidly learned that a buddy (ou un ami) in North American language is a mate for the Australians (the ones walking upside down and riding on the "wrong" side of the road).
Wait that you read an old post about vegemite  Very Happy . This is what is the fun on this forum. we have a passion for K-Bikes but are also caring humans and have a lot of respect for each others. We help anybody (which can be a nubby or somebody with a lot of experience).

Nice collection of bikes you have (or had). Maybe the next time I come back to France I can visit you too.

Cheers et bienvenue.
CF (You see, Frenchies are very welcome here and I am one of them)


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92KK 84WW Olaf

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Welcome to the forum too. If you get the urge to travel feel free to come this way. The ferry from Roscoff to Cork docks 15 minutes from me.

I have taken to taking my K to France along with 88 from the forum and we would like to be down your way. Next year perhaps!

If you get a chance to meet with Indian036. He came to see us last year and we really enjoyed his company.


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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
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brickrider2

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Welcome jbt.  I have no doubts that you will fit right in here! Your experience, knowledge and passion are shared by a good many of the members.  However, I doubt many can claim to have owned such an impressive collection of bikes.  Some might say you are "livin' the dream!"

    

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jbt

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Thanks for the welcomings!
Indian036, feel free to visit me in june, I live 40 minutes from Geneva and can provide bed & breakfast & bike if you'd like to tour here. You or anyone else...

Thanks also for the invitation in Ireland, I was there last summer to discover that beautiful sunny and dry island. By car... I wish I could return there on 2 wheels, but a K100 may be too much for the twisty roads of Kerry. I'd prefer ride my Royal Enfield, or my C1 (not sure that a rainfree week is usual up there?).

Il'll be in NYC in 10 days, Point-seven-five, on a family journey for my wife's 40 birthday.
I'd like also to do a long tour by bike in the USA, buying a K on east coast to go west and back. I'm a lucky worker who can have 2 months summer holydays... But not for now, in a few years, when my daughter will be older ( so I can get rid of her in a summer camp, ha ha!) ( In Ireland if she's not nice Razz .)

    

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Rick G

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I like that K75GS, I am building one myself. What is the plastic headlight suround and screen from?


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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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jbt

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It's the original R80G/S headlamp surround, chopped to receive the K75 instruments cluster.
Without the screen, it looks like a spanish franquist policeman:
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So the optionnal windscreen ( became an original equipment on the R100GS) masks it.

    

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Welcome!


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Bonjour JBT, 

Would that be Clermont Bonneville that you are from?  The last couple of years I have crossed along the Chamonoix - Martigny col but have not been to Geneva.  Whenver I cross from France to Switzerland and vice-versa I am not sure if I am sad to be leaving one and happy to be arriving or the other way round.  Lots and lots of great roads around there. 

Good to see you chiming in Rick about the 75GS.  I can see you salivating from here Laughing  

M. Tackleur.


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jbt

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Hi Tackler,
Clermont is a very little village, 50 km from Bonneville (a very small town also!), yes.
And you're right, roads around are idyllic, but sadly more and more often stuck by road traffic around the main touristic places.
So I sometimes prefer to ride for a 1000 km one-day trip in the  South Alps, going to put a toe in the Mediterranean Sea and back for dinner, using only little twisty roads in moutains.  I usually use a R100GS Paris Dakar for that, it justs need a refuel at mid trip and has good ground clearance in curves (many, many curves!), but a K would be fine also.

    

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brickrider2

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Looks like the guardia civil !?  lol  Hilarious!  cheers  and there's a lot of truth to that.

    

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Jbt,

I would be interested to know which route you ride to get down to the Med.  I have maps of that area but whenever I visit there is never enough time to explore every road. 

Would the tunnel collapse on the D1091 between La Grave and Le Bourg d'Oisans be repaired yet?  I went to use it last year after coming down Col du Galibier and ended up with a massive detour between Briancon and Grenoble.


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jbt wrote: (not sure that a rainfree week is usual up there?).
 In the west it's  called a drout (une sécheresse)  Hello from a french BMW addict 44271

Bienvenue. Riding in France is such a pleasure, an't wait to return to the Dordogne, hopefully later this year.

I like the K75 job you have done, it looks OEM !

Enjoy the forum.


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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine from 1600 years ago & still true!

K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes. 
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.
    

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This road won't be repaired, but a provisional gravel road was open on the other side of the lake.
Provisional because it's not rockslide proof either and it's supposed to be a solution waiting for another one.
But I know a "provisional" bridge on the Rhône built in 1950...
From my location, I have the choice of many roads, depending of the traffic...From Grenoble to Sisteron, by Lus la Croix Haute it's a large quick road, very pleasant, but with a lot of traffic depending the day and hour. You can also cross the Vercors to Die (the town, not the end of the trip!) then join Digne, Castellane, Grasse...it depends your destination, but any road seems to be made for bikes by there.

Hum...talking about that is triggering a sudden need to go there to celebrate spring, I've just fit a new front tyre...
Sunny weather tomorrow...I have to go to Grenoble...I'll think about it this night. Rolling Eyes

For those travelling to France, the absolute nirvana on 2 wheels is the road from Villefort to Mende. Each curve seems to be designed to your exclusive pleasure on 2 wheels, terrific scenary, no cars, no cops...
To ride in April/May with flowers everywhere, in the morning with the sun in the back.
No visa should be delivered if you don't aim to ride there!


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jbt wrote:… nirvana on 2 wheels is the road from Villefort to Mende. Each curve seems to be designed to your exclusive pleasure on 2 wheels, terrific scenary, no cars, no cops...
To ride in April/May with flowers everywhere, in the morning with the sun in the back.
No visa should be delivered if you don't aim to ride there!

Good tip! ;-)
This summer I'll pass Carcassonne, maybe I'll have a look at the road you recommend.

Cheers


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Welkome jbt!

Love the K75. It's like a blend of my R80G/S and my customised K75.

Cheers


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For those travelling to France, the absolute nirvana on 2 wheels is the road from Villefort to Mende. Each curve seems to be designed to your exclusive pleasure on 2 wheels, terrific scenary, no cars, no cops... wrote:To ride in April/May with flowers everywhere, in the morning with the sun in the back.
No visa should be delivered if you don't aim to ride there!

Just looked at it on the maps....Ooooh nice!  Cool


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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine from 1600 years ago & still true!

K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes. 
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.
    

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