10 days ago Mr K was involved in a skirmish with a 4-wheeled enemy. He is dead. Reassured by Her Majesty`s constabulary that more than a passing interest was going to be taken in the driving abilities of the upset young lady who decided to change lanes exiting a 60mph roundabout, Mr K`s guardian found his younger brother on ebay the next day for the sum of 890 GBP.
Mr K2 is a 1991 (end of range) K100LT . Mr K`s major organs have already been salvaged and are functioning well on the first trip to Cornwall. Mr K2 is better than his 1987 elder.

yours (too old to bounce on tarmacadam)

Jonny QQ

Hope you faired better than Mr. K, Johnny. Mr K2 (if thats it in the avatar) is a fine looking steed. It's a heck of a way to get a spares bike!!

88KE

Aren't you glad that Mr K had signed his organ donor card before being put to rest?
At least you are in one piece and the new bike looks good and... you have a lot of spare parts now.
It would be impossible to find a late K100lt at this price in Canada. They start to be rare. Here in Nova Scotia, it maybe a maximum of 15 K-bikes still on the road (and I own 2 of them).

Enjoy touring with K2.

CF

Good to hear you are ok and the bike is the organ donor. Long may MrK live on in others.

Crazy Frog wrote:Aren't you glad that Mr K had signed his organ donor card before being put to rest?
At least you are in one piece and the new bike looks good and... you have a lot of spare parts now.
It would be impossible to find a late K100lt at this price in Canada. They start to be rare. Here in Nova Scotia, it maybe a maximum of 15 K-bikes still on the road (and I own 2 of them).

Enjoy touring with K2.

CF

I would not advertise that,you never know who might need spare parts late at night:twisted:

frogy wrote:

Crazy Frog wrote:Aren't you glad that Mr K had signed his organ donor card before being put to rest?
At least you are in one piece and the new bike looks good and... you have a lot of spare parts now.
It would be impossible to find a late K100lt at this price in Canada. They start to be rare. Here in Nova Scotia, it maybe a maximum of 15 K-bikes still on the road (and I own 2 of them).

Enjoy touring with K2.

CF

I would not advertise that,you never know who might need spare parts late at night

Your comment would be certainly appropriate for more modern bikes, but the nicest thing about owning a K bike is that we respect each others. If you look at the statistics, they are certainly the least stolen bikes as their is not market for unknown origin parts.
We are a small community and we care for each others.
This is not just what we ride, but who we are that makes us a bit different.... Overall, we are a bunch of passionate people and we value the hard work of anybody keeping a 25 YO+ bike on the road.

By the way, my shed has an alarm and a security camera is monitoring 24/7 who will touch my bikes. (I am jealous an my interpretation of bigamy is 2 bikes, 1 owner)

CF

Lost the old faithful RT 'Boris' in the 4 -wheel-wars several years ago. Missing it badly. Know how much it hurts!
I may well have been watching the one you bought on E.bay?
£890. Good price if it is any good? Is it?
Planning and dreaming of my next K.. Piggy bank empty.
Any more pics?
To old to bounce, to young to stop getting flies on my teeth.

That's an odd looking reindeer you've got there, Boris.

Thanks gents very much for your support, the avatar is in fact Mr K and for the time being I feel it should remain so.

Mr K2 is good and essentially I`m very pleased. BUT... early on I experienced 3 episodes during the first couple of short runs that when accelerating briskly up through 3rd that there was a sudden and very short lived (eg 1/4 sec) loss of power, which having recently been whacked slightly unnerved me. So , I put Mr K`s old excellent tank and new fuel filter on in place of the original one as Mr K2 has only done about 8k miles in past 10 yrs and there was no service history. Result ? Well yes, but it has happened again but only twice in the last 350 miles.

Reading around the forum I realise there are other things to check. Look at coils when dark . Fuel return to tank (seems fine). Replaced spark plugs with Bosch (done). I going to put K`s old cleaned and tested fuel injectors on and may use his HT leads too. The engine is also idling too fast at 1100rpm when warm so all in all when i have replaced all I can with known good parts I will ask for a tune up at Sherlocks. Were off on a 3 week tour to France and Spain in July and would like it as safe and reliable as possible esp with such a valuable passenger

cheers all

JonnyQQ

I looked at various bikes before getting the K100.

I tried a Honda CB500-4, a 1973 one as I had previously owned one and could manage it fine. I couldnt manage the CB750 due to lack of height on my part. Anyway I decided I didnt want a naked bike for getting the Sunday papers in summer. Found the K100 for sale in early 2010 for the princely sum of €1,000 or about £800. It had a few items wrong, leaking rear master cylinder, no key for top box, clutch cable poor, mirrors average and 92k miles. However it seemed good and I felt that a good tidy up, polish etc would be rewarded. However it had luggage too and was not so pristine that there would be gnashing of teeth if I let it fall over which I have done a few times.

Since then I took it home and got a full service, filters, brakes, new mirror, clutch cable, and it was perfect.

A few weeks later replaced the battery. Cost €50 from a lawnmower outlet. Dont be put off, its perfect.

Replaced the fairing inner panel which had been cut for speakers and was tatty. Motorworks.

One puncture, front.

Secured keys for top box [Hepco & Becker].

May 2012 replaced starter relay, load shed relay, ICE, cleaned off all electrics under the tank, remade the earths.

Fitted LED running lights.

Replaced fuel injection petrol hoses. These were badly perished.

Service this weekend, filters etc. DIY this time.

Height is an issue and I am looking at lowering it wthout losing the comfortable seat.

Bike has given good service, steady as a rock.

Defintely cheap enough to buy and with this forum and good on line parts suppliers its cheap enough to run.

Jonny QQ - It sounds like you have found a good replacement machine and at a half decent price too (not sure how I missed that one). You are not too far from me and I am often to be found at Zuki's or Torrington Common, so if you spot either a K100RT (silver with red tank) or a K1100LT (dark blue) please come over and make yourself known and I will shout you up a burger or coffee/tea etc. at Greedy's Diner or Zuki's

Will indeed look out for you and your bike Krambo. Whilst the cheeseburgers at Torrington common, as I`m sure your aware , are legendary , there is little doubt that the cheesey chips at Zukis are impossible to ignore!
I joined 730 bikers on the Devon Air Ambulance ride from South Molton to Teignmouth last sunday . Were you there? I didnt see any other K`s but there were so many bikes about , easily missed. Having once again lost a raffle draw we were cheered up by the chilli-jacket pototoes on sale. Good tidings indeed and again recommended