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Title: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: Rich1989 on October 05, 2015, 01:00:30 PM

Hi all!

This isn't for the purists, so look away now if you are....

I've bought a rear wheel off an r1100 which I have fitted. It's 5inch wide X 17. Love how it looks and I'm planning on swapping the front end to have the front rim & brakes to match somewhere along the line. I now need to find a tyre/tire. I'm thinking 150 70 17 but not sure it will fit beside drive shaft.

Does anyone have experience of this?

I have read that some people have fitted this tyre on the later k1100 so I'm guessing it does fit,

Can anyone confirm? 

Many thanks in advance!  :2thumbup:

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: johnny on October 05, 2015, 01:55:16 PM

look away... is look sideways an option... im so dizzy... gonna have to switch from indica butter to sativa butter...

j o

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: F14CRAZY on October 05, 2015, 02:35:25 PM

not tires, not tyres, but tiors

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: Rich1989 on October 05, 2015, 02:39:01 PM

It's tyres if you're English and in England. Stop trolling

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: johnny on October 05, 2015, 02:45:05 PM

greetings rich1989...

what auto tyer fittment for that wheel...

j o

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: rbm on October 05, 2015, 05:44:00 PM

Download and read this Word document (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3UPbNZRyr1reDNoZFZPcGlHa00), a collection of articles assembled from various posts to various Internet forums.  It is all the good information about fitting K1200 / R1100 wheels and wide tires (or tyres or tiors) to classic K-bikes.  It's big, 54MB, because of lots of pictures.

If your kaffe-ing your bike, you might be interested in spoked wheels to give it that retro look.  Download and read all the files in this directory (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3UPbNZRyr1rTUU3TjZLTFZfYlU) to understand how that is accomplished.  If you're more of a movie buff, see the film instead of reading the book.

see the film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua2OaaCFhkk)

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: Rich1989 on October 06, 2015, 04:39:22 PM

Thanks rbm, there's a lot of really usefully info I have read all in one place there!
Many thanks!!

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: drut on October 06, 2015, 06:10:02 PM

"Thanks rbm, there's a lot of really usefully info I have read all in one place there!
Many thanks!!"

+ 1

Title: Re: R1100 wheel on 86 k100
Post by: Rich1989 on October 10, 2015, 04:43:15 AM

Hi all,

So I got a tyre fitted to the rim and bad news. Turns out this wheel was sold to me incorrectly. Looked into the part number and it's the rear of a k1200RS.

As such there is an approx 20mm offset to the left of the bike. Having read up on other BM K forums it's come to light that an offset of 12mm is acceptable and does not effect the handling (strange I know)

So basically just posting to inform really. Unless you're happy with a 20mm offset, don't buy a k1200rt rim for a k100!