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[kightboy]

0135286   VIN - last 7 numbers

[kightboy]

how would one include some sort of photo underneath his name in the forums?

[robleyd]

how would one include some sort of photo underneath his name in the forums?

At the top of any page, hover your mouse pointer over Profile and select Forum Profile from the list of options. You'll be presented with a page at the top of which are a number of options for adding what is known as an avatar.

Make sure the image you use isn't too big - keep it to around 150 pixels max width or height otherwise it screws up the page layout.

[detbmw]

Well YAY!  Thanks for the help.  Now you'll receive a lot of photos because I take so many.  I hope I don't become a blight on this forum

Lots of photos are a good thing. I enjoy looking at motorcycles.

[kightboy]

hey
thanks for the help on the whole avatar thingie. 

[frankenduck]

0135286   VIN - last 7 numbers

Your bike left the factory as a standard K75 in March of 1994.

[kightboy]

Thank you o Duck-Meister.  So it's sort of a frankenbike.  This little fairing has two pieces of windshield that, somehow the wind flows between and around.  Pretty effecient for one so small and it says "laminar lip" on the side of it.  Never seen one before.

definitely looks different than the photo of the k75C in my Haynes manual.  like maybe the "laminar lip" was added on after market.

[detbmw]

This one looks like yours:

http://www.laminarlip.com/k75c.php

[kightboy]

aha!!
it's the laminar lip company.  i will say this - i'm protected behind this little bitty windshield as if it were much bigger.  it works. 

[frankenduck]

IMO that's one of the better Laminar Lips.  Most of them are mounted with 3M Dual-Lock (hard core Velcro) but the C one uses the OEM windscreen bolts.

Somebody also added those handguards.  K75s never had those but the R100 ones fit because they have the same throttle and clutch perches.

[detbmw]

IMO that's one of the better Laminar Lips.  Most of them are mounted with 3M Dual-Lock (hard core Velcro) but the C one uses the OEM windscreen bolts.

Somebody also added those handguards.  K75s never had those but the R100 ones fit because they have the same throttle and clutch perches.

I had looked at the K75S lip, I wondered how it attached. I have the Aeroflow headlight cover/protector that attaches with the Dual-Locks.

I don't know how I would feel at 80 mph with a plastic piece attached to the windscreen a few inches from my face with just those holding it on. But they must do the job okay.

[frankenduck]

I've ridden a K75S with a Laminar Lip. It pushes the wind up a bit but not that much.  I was hoping it would push it up enough to ride without a helmet but I'm 6-2 and that wasn't the case.

I've never heard of one coming off but what I'd recommend is trying it with the Dual-Lock and if you decide to make it permanent then drill it and the factory windscreen and bolt it on with nylon hardware.

[kightboy]

this laminar flow windscreen thing is on there very solid.  not going nowhere.  and it really workswell
re: the handguards - I put them on last week so my hands don't freaking freeze!
after riding the bike home in december Reno to Sacramento over the Donner Pass with 4 feet of snow on either side of the road, stopping in truckee i almost couldn't open my hands because my fingers were froze!  this is MUCH better for winter riding and they come off really easy too!