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kustomkat1950

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Hello all, 

Just picked up a 1978 R80

and a 1985 K100 RT for a wonderful price.  Both have org tool kits and manuals/logbooks with them. 

'Bout me,  Veteran, likes to wrench, just sold a drag boat, has too many cars...

    

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Born Again Eccentric

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Welcome along kustomkat.

Plenty of wrenching opportunities on both those bikes and plenty of advice and help hereabouts for the '85 RT.
Is it really possible to have too many cars, bikes or boats?


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New guy in the High Desert!!! Uk-log10 New guy in the High Desert!!! Sco-lo15
                              Paul  New guy in the High Desert!!! 905546712

"Heidi" K100LT 1991 (Grey) (VIN 0190172 Engine No. 104EB 2590 2213) - 5th owner. January 2014 (34,000 - 61,000 miles and counting....)
"Gretel" K100LT 1989 (Silver Grey) (VIN 0177324 Engine No. 104EA 2789 2211) - 4th+ owner. September 2015 (58,500miles and counting....). Cat C Insurance write-off rebuild Feb 17
"Donor" K100LT 1990 (Red)  (VIN 0178091 Engine No. 4489 2024) - 6th & final owner (crash write-off now donor bike).   June 2012 (73,000 miles) to November 2013 (89,500 miles)
    

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Point-Seven-five

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Born Again Eccentric wrote:
Is it really possible to have too many cars, bikes or boats?
I don't know about cars or bikes, but it seems to me you have never owned a boat, especially an old one.


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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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Born Again Eccentric

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Point-Seven-five wrote:
Born Again Eccentric wrote:
Is it really possible to have too many cars, bikes or boats?
I don't know about cars or bikes, but it seems to me you have never owned a boat, especially an old one.
Nothing is as it seems...I have been in and around boats of all shapes and sizes all my life - recreationally and career wise. Fishing boats, sailing dinghies, yachts, power boats, minesweepers, patrol boats, frigates, destroyers, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines...and a couple of USN ones too (USS Freedom and USS Independence)!

I've owned a rowing boat (very cheap to run, but range quite limited), a rigid hull inflatable (5.5m with 80HP outboard - diving, fishing and waterskiing - fast & fun), a small water-jet rigid hull inflatable (doing 50knots is quite exhilarating in a small boat on flat calm water but is nothing compared to doing 50knots in a 3000 ton water-jet propelled Littoral Combat Ship) and, for a couple of years, a 55 foot Princess cabin cruiser (millionaire lifestyle on a paupers budget - however, a top speed of 20 knots and only getting ¾ mile to the gallon of marine diesel and high berthing fees were sobering but not as sobering as the cost of running a nuclear submarine...just glad the government foots the bill for those!). 

Boats, like bikes, are a labour of love - you can pour lots of money into them, you can spend hours playing with the electric and fitting gadgets, you can spend hours cleaning them...but when you get to use them and the wind is in your hair and they are running sweetly, then there is no better feeling of freedom! Ownership can be pricey...but you only live once!
New guy in the High Desert!!! Img_0710


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New guy in the High Desert!!! Uk-log10 New guy in the High Desert!!! Sco-lo15
                              Paul  New guy in the High Desert!!! 905546712

"Heidi" K100LT 1991 (Grey) (VIN 0190172 Engine No. 104EB 2590 2213) - 5th owner. January 2014 (34,000 - 61,000 miles and counting....)
"Gretel" K100LT 1989 (Silver Grey) (VIN 0177324 Engine No. 104EA 2789 2211) - 4th+ owner. September 2015 (58,500miles and counting....). Cat C Insurance write-off rebuild Feb 17
"Donor" K100LT 1990 (Red)  (VIN 0178091 Engine No. 4489 2024) - 6th & final owner (crash write-off now donor bike).   June 2012 (73,000 miles) to November 2013 (89,500 miles)
    

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TacKler

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Paul, is that a DEA photo of you doing high speed run back from Morocco?    Wink


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Red 1991 K75S
    

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Born Again Eccentric

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TacKler wrote:Paul, is that a DEA photo of you doing high speed run back from Morocco?    Wink
New guy in the High Desert!!! 652573 New guy in the High Desert!!! 447221 New guy in the High Desert!!! 76715 
They were watching??


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New guy in the High Desert!!! Uk-log10 New guy in the High Desert!!! Sco-lo15
                              Paul  New guy in the High Desert!!! 905546712

"Heidi" K100LT 1991 (Grey) (VIN 0190172 Engine No. 104EB 2590 2213) - 5th owner. January 2014 (34,000 - 61,000 miles and counting....)
"Gretel" K100LT 1989 (Silver Grey) (VIN 0177324 Engine No. 104EA 2789 2211) - 4th+ owner. September 2015 (58,500miles and counting....). Cat C Insurance write-off rebuild Feb 17
"Donor" K100LT 1990 (Red)  (VIN 0178091 Engine No. 4489 2024) - 6th & final owner (crash write-off now donor bike).   June 2012 (73,000 miles) to November 2013 (89,500 miles)
    

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TacKler

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Born Again Eccentric wrote:
TacKler wrote:Paul, is that a DEA photo of you doing high speed run back from Morocco?    Wink
New guy in the High Desert!!! 652573 New guy in the High Desert!!! 447221 New guy in the High Desert!!! 76715 
They were watching??

I can neither confirm nor deny that ........ etc, etc.


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