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MOTOBRICK.COM => Welcome To Motobrick.Com => Topic started by: The Dude on April 30, 2016, 01:47:58 AM
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New member,old brickbat.
'hope I get this posted in the right hole.
Thanks,for providing an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity about one of my favourite motorcycles,the clues as to what types ride them and why...I knew I was special but still don't know why.
Back in '86 I got enough cash squirelled away to get a new K100RS,so I took out a demonstrator for a spin and thought my dreams had turned into a nightmare.It was a pig to handle at walking pace and the front end wobbled on the overrun,so I parked it up and had a good look at the basics.Front tyre was bald.I took it back to the squealer and said it was too much.The young buck smelled money and said."A new brick variant,K75 model was due in the country at the end of the month and was better at the too much bit.The cash was burning a hole and my wife was about to give birth to my first born and knowing this to be the life changing thing it was,I ordered the K75 sport sight unseen,there and then..The first in the country,I believe.Wellll,I'd just started a new job and needed a decent commuting tool so all justified,the deal was done.
A quarter of a million km later,I thought I'd would try and find out why I hadn't broken her,yet....not one thing, apart from the bloody side panels, has fallen off.Er,except me,myself and I.Oh, and the green button.Not one misfire except when I accidentally key banged her with the kill switch and thought at least she's is from planet earth after all and was finally dead,but...she wasn't.Ah,yes the rear frame broke off just behind the shock mount but a few gussets welded where they should have been put by the dreamers at bmw (for special people like me)retrofitted me back on the road twenty years ago and seems to have kept the back on.An almost shagged out drive spline made me buy a new shaft and I've been greasing the basterds ever since.
Anyway,I thought I should find out what others had found out about this dream machine on one idle afternoon, recently, and I came across you lot.
Hi Johnny....I read it all and then.... changed the fuel lines a couple of days ago..thought,shit, am I a lucky bar steward or what?No flaming balls,yet.They were still good and so are all the rubbery bits .As good as new.Inside and out...Changed the fuel ones anyway.Just fossil fuel here and rain water,and none of that acid rain.Done all my own everything as I am not very trusting...I am guessing that they sent out a special lot of K's for their first dispatch to the farthest point on the globe that fateful month back in '86 when the moon and stars lined up,for me 'cos this lady hasn't missed a beat apart from two speedos under warranty and the pump seals(of course)and the welded up starter solenoid(what fun).Did the cam chain ,yeh and guides, for peices of mind.Now,with my personal service record going on for 250,000kms,all logged down to the tyers and sundry.
Do I want another one?No way,this ones truly golden.Does she burn oil?not a drop.nada.Does she smoke after smoko on the side stand?Na.never.Do I smoke after I Put it on the side stand?Am I allowed to?Na...f@k em.
Oh,my"avatar,"thingy is of my "bitch" bike which needs another bitch to push start her and a mobile tool chest to keep her started.She's the tart ,I luv er and the Beemer,well, she's ma missus.I'll go give her a flash and attaché it here.That's if I can knob it right.....hope jpg not got too many pixies.
hmm, she's not naked, she's decent,so I don't know why she's not appearing in the preview,just imagine her, that's if I can't knob it right, in Genral Motors Malachite green with a whole load of patina.(candy apple red chips, kode 575)
Queers from the dude....
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Welcome to the asylum Dude from the land of OZ.
Regards Martin.
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martin...
its the dude...
not dude...
welcome to motobrick.com the dude...
figger your gonna have to ignore the canadicans and wombats... they are mostly whack when hatched...
j o
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Great story! Welcome and thanks for sharing!
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2 peas in a pod, bought one of the first K75s's in sept '86, metallic red, 186,000 miles and 30 years later still love the thing. Only time it ever stranded me was on the way home from putting cash down on a new Ural. Hurt it's feelings. Welcome!
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Great intro. I feel similarly about my relationships with my K75s and my Guzzis.
Brick - easiest starting bike ever. Gas and go. I brought her into the stable to fill the "cheap and indestructible" niche. But I've become quite fond of her.
Guzzis - mine are newer, fuel-injected big blocks, and quite reliable (but have required some sorting). As you know, they can be a little temperamental, but oh, the glorious thunder of 1100 ccs of Guzzi under full throttle going up a mountain pass....... I don't care what it takes, it's worth it. They are tarts.
Back to your brick. Are you planning to continue with the patina - or bring her back to original appearance?
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I'm glad you found your way here.
Welcome to the funny farm.
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Sorry The Johnny, I didn't know the Kiwi's had a title, sorry to The Dude.
Regards The Martin. :dunno
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Thanks,Martin,There's no cure for my madness,no asylum could contain what I got.
No worries,I'm pretty laid back about that sort of thing....Where's my effing lighter.
Johnny,yep I'm The Dude " for we are many".
Chaos,pod's true,Sept 1st '86.Urs could be golden too."Special K".yer,I had to put a couple of gallons through the fuel light sender hole once, 'cos the effing key jammed in the filler cap.Got home on the fumes.Tssssp...ahhhhh.All I need now is a screw driver.Now,where's my lighter?
Scud,I had to bend the tart back,now she does all that I ask of her.Couldn't treat the missus like that,she'd scream her head off.850's all I need.'Stopped buying them in the eighties,someone got hold of the purse strings.I like patina,saves me from looking like I care.Promise to give her another going over,one day.Shark skin grey with fades of black,maybe?That's cammo,where I come from.
Brad-Man,Thanks but I'm still lost,'couldn't find my way,if I tried.
Here's the Tart,without any makeup.I got all that stuff hidden in the shed somewhere,along with the ropes and chain.Seems the missus is camera shy.'might flash a sly one when she's not looking,next time.
Queers,kings(and queens)of the road,from The dude.
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Yummy LeMans III - nice and minimalistic. One might even call it a cafe style... Here's my tart.
(http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/timscudder/San%20Diego%20Loop%20for%20V11LeMans/DSC_0019.jpg) (http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/timscudder/media/San%20Diego%20Loop%20for%20V11LeMans/DSC_0019.jpg.html)
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Welcome, Dude-man, to all of you, all three (me, myself,& I).........you will fit in well with all the rest of our multi-personalities. Very good taste in bikes. Your strumpet looks hot!
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welcome ,really enjoy reading your story, ......
German996
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Yeh,thanks Scud.Your tart looks a lot more sophisticated than mine.I know I wouldn't be able to contain myself,stromping around with her.I am compelled to remain within the context of my advanced years.'Stuck with the aesthetics from my formative era.
996,there's more confessions to come....
Now, getting back to the goddesses we all know and love,here's a couple of images of mine from our second honeymoon,er,that's 25 years ago...
Please note the tragkorbs are non standard and not available from the fatherland.Also,the panels covering her rude bits, won't be listed,either.The panels are louverd for heat dispersal.
I'd better slip in one of my Triumphs,I kept, which I built "as new" a very,very long time ago.One day, I will seek her out from the back of the shed and give her a good rubbing over.I rebuild my bikes before I store them,as a consequence of being cursed with the loyalty gene.
This is the end of my third confession.
Queers from The Dude.
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Guzzis wouldn't be real Italians without a bit of a temper....Beemers revel in their Teutonic reliability....who's better lookin'? You decide.