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1Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:17 am

Laitch

Laitch
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I live in the Peoples Republic of Vermont, USA. 

I own a 1995 K75 that is my steady transportation six months per year. The other six months it's on the lift freezing in the workshop. It's got 57,000 miles on it. It's been no problem except for diverting most of my potentially productive hours into riding as if I have an important mission—an illusion that is clearly unravelling locally. There seem to be many skilled riders on the K100 Forum from whom I could learn much if I weren't so easily distracted by indistinct noises and grandiose schemes. 

Nevertheless, I will strive to contribute here—between naps, riding, chainsaw operating, wood splitting, snowplowing, and loitering elsewhere—from my vast store of barely-tangential-to-K-bike experience, information and opinion as a means to foster camaraderie, awe and reverence. 

I've read all this site's rules, guidelines and advisories; they have become integral parts of my being. If my post count exceeds 11, there's no telling where it will end.


Thanks for providing the open invitation.

    

2Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:34 am

DeRodster

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Howdy Laitch,
Welcome on here, always interesting and lots of help if needed.

I have relatives in Concord, about 1:30 from you...small world.

you seem to be working the K75 to it's best...great machines and well able for it

Safe riding
Rod


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1992 K1100LT 6455194
1943 BSA WM20
1979 Yamaha DT-175
1974 Triumph 3TA / 5TA
1974 Honda 100
1969 Honda 50
    

3Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:37 am

duck

duck
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WelKome!

I camped out in Jamaica, VT on my K75RT many moons ago.


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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
http://www.ClassicKBikes.com
    

4Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 8:31 am

Dai

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Hello From The PRV 177912


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1983 K100 naked upgraded to K100LT spec after spending time as an RS and an RT
1987 K100RT
Others...
1978 Moto Guzzi 850-T3, 1979 Moto Guzzi 850-T3 California,1993 Moto Guzzi 1100ie California
2020 Royal Enfield Bullet 500
    

5Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:01 pm

Two Wheels Better

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Welcome to the forum! I got dropped off in Williston in the dead of Winter having never even seen snow fall in my short life and nearly froze my fingers off. If it wasn't for the F111s of the Vermont National Guard going overhead at five AM I'd never been able to get up to deliver the Burlington Free Press on my bicycle in two feet of snow. I managed less than a year there but returned later on my R75 to win an award for riding steadily down three two-by-fours placed end to end at the BMWMOA National Rally in Rutland in '78. I still have that thing somewhere in a cupboard, the award, that is, and the bike too, back in Australia. How's Ethan these days? I'll bet he and the boys would have a thing or two to say about the state of things.


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1977 R75/7-100, '93 K11/K12 Big Block, '95 R100 Mystic, '96 K1100RS, '98 K1200RS, '06 K1200R & '09 K1300GT. Projects: 1993 & '96 K1100RS, & 1st '98 K1200RS.
The Mystic, Big Block, 2nd K1200RS, K12R & K13 are running & ridable.
    

6Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 2:48 pm

Laitch

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Two Wheels Better wrote:How's Ethan these days? I'll bet he and the boys would have a thing or two to say about the state of things.
Dead as ever, so it seems. If he would say anything it probably be more complaints about New Yorkers. He'd like how the land values have risen though, being that he was a speculator-patriot.

My first experience of real cold was in Vermont in the dead of winter, too, Two Wheels Better. When the plane left Miami it was 80ºF. It landed midday in Burlington after a 16" nighttime snowfall. The sun was bright; the air was crystalline and the snow was glistening. I walked to the terminal from the plane—that's how long ago this happened—and when I kissed my girl friend as we stood at the entrance to the building, she said, "Glad you made it! How about some ice cream before we head to my place?" The air temperature was 10ºF.

Thank you all for your cordiality!

    

7Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:38 pm

Point-Seven-five

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Welcome Laitch!  This is a great place to meet K riders from around the globe.  Lots of great info here as well. 

Vermont is on my list of places where I'd like to ride one of my bricks this Fall.  Do you think they'll let this New Yawker in?


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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
    

8Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:53 pm

Chocolate

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Welcome here!

Vermont must be a beautiful place in autumn.
Looking forward to see pictures from you.

Cheers from germany

Googling for North Duxbury, Vermont
I found this, is it your shower ;-)

Hello From The PRV 4e6e73ae8a37f251350f6a951437a168l-m33xd-w640_h480_q80

Hello From The PRV 1692.1319858248


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Only a few activities make me experience my senses in a way motorcycle riding does, it is like swimming in the nude in a river.
K75 BA/1992 ABS, K75 BA/1991 noABS, Ducati, Mobylette M1/1973
    

9Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:06 am

Laitch

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Chocolate wrote:Welcome here!
I found this, is it your shower ;-)
That's the local, water-conserving car wash, Chocolate. Clients can only wash one end at a time.

    

10Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:14 am

Chocolate

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Laitch wrote:
Chocolate wrote:Welcome here!
I found this, is it your shower ;-)
That's the local, water-conserving car wash, Chocolate. Clients can only wash one end at a time.
Hello From The PRV RTGyxnqrc


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Only a few activities make me experience my senses in a way motorcycle riding does, it is like swimming in the nude in a river.
K75 BA/1992 ABS, K75 BA/1991 noABS, Ducati, Mobylette M1/1973
    

11Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:56 am

88

88
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Welcome from across the water Laitch!


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Hello From The PRV Ir-log1188....May contain nuts!Hello From The PRV Ir-log11

"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.
    

12Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:51 am

Laitch

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Point-Seven-five wrote: Do you think they'll let this New Yawker in?
Rest assured, .75, the time-honored, oft-repeated, fractious salutation of "Welcome to Vermont! Now, go home!" is going the way of the Tasmanian tiger and being supplanted by the cheery query, "Hi! Debit or credit?" 

Come on over and ride the wild tar snakes of the Green Mountains!

    

13Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Thu Sep 22, 2016 2:19 pm

Point-Seven-five

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I only use cash.  No paper trail...


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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
    

14Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:08 pm

charlie99

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Laitch wrote:I live in the Peoples Republic of Vermont, USA. 

I own a 1995 K75 that is my steady transportation six months per year. The other six months it's on the lift freezing in the workshop. It's got 57,000 miles on it. It's been no problem except for diverting most of my potentially productive hours into riding as if I have an important mission—an illusion that is clearly unravelling locally. There seem to be many skilled riders on the K100 Forum from whom I could learn much if I weren't so easily distracted by indistinct noises and grandiose schemes. 

Nevertheless, I will strive to contribute here—between naps, riding, chainsaw operating, wood splitting, snowplowing, and loitering elsewhere—from my vast store of barely-tangential-to-K-bike experience, information and opinion as a means to foster camaraderie, awe and reverence. 

I've read all this site's rules, guidelines and advisories; they have become integral parts of my being. If my post count exceeds 11, there's no telling where it will end.


Thanks for providing the open invitation.
nice intro Laitch
welcome from me as well ...from way down under


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cheezy grin whilst riding, kinda bloke ....oh the joy !!!! ...... ( brick aviator )

'86 K100 RT..#0090401 ..."Gerty" ( Gertrude Von Clickandshift ) --------O%O
'86 k100 rs.. #######..  "Fred " (f(rame) red ) ( Fredrick leichtundschnell ) - -
bits and pieces from many kind friends across the k100 world ...with many thanks ..
1987 k100rs ########   "Red"  - (red sports rs TWB style )
1989 K100rt #009637   "Black Betty"  (naked rt ala Nigel , now sporting an rs main fairing )
    

15Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:56 am

Two Wheels Better

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Laitch wrote:"Welcome to Vermont! Now, go home!" is going the way of the Tasmanian tiger and being supplanted by the cheery query, "Hi! Debit or credit?"
Don't be so quick to make that statement. Just like ol' Nessie, there've been some startling re-discoveries of late!

Thylacine sighting

Hello From The PRV 652573


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1977 R75/7-100, '93 K11/K12 Big Block, '95 R100 Mystic, '96 K1100RS, '98 K1200RS, '06 K1200R & '09 K1300GT. Projects: 1993 & '96 K1100RS, & 1st '98 K1200RS.
The Mystic, Big Block, 2nd K1200RS, K12R & K13 are running & ridable.
    

16Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:24 am

Laitch

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Two Wheels Better wrote:
Laitch wrote:"Welcome to Vermont! Now, go home!" is going the way of the Tasmanian tiger and being supplanted by the cheery query, "Hi! Debit or credit?"
Don't be so quick to make that statement. Just like ol' Nessie, there've been some startling re-discoveries of late!

Thylacine sighting

Hello From The PRV 652573
I wasn't asserting it was extinct, just rare—like the Thylacine and the catamount. Given the economic implications, the Thylacine's comeback is more likely. In fact, it's become my favorite marsupial!

    

17Back to top Go down   Hello From The PRV Empty Re: Hello From The PRV Fri Sep 23, 2016 6:15 am

GTJos

GTJos
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Hi there Laitch !!

Very  Hello From The PRV 177912 to this state-of-the-art-forum !


Greetings from over the ocean....

Jos


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Hello From The PRV Deutch10Ich bin enge Kirchröatsjer jong; adieë wa ?! Hello From The PRV Deutch10
                                1992  K1100LT 6458188
                                1987 K100LT (RS-fairing) 0170844 + sidecar EML GT2001
                                1986 K100RS 0085647 + sidecar Velorex 562
                                1985  K100RT  0027026
    

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