Hi there guys! New to the forum and to K-Bikes, just picked one up this week. The story goes like this.... A very dear friend unfortunately decided to take his own life last Tuesday morning. I had ridden his bikes with him quite a bit, both dirt bikes and road bikes. The one I always had the most fun on was a mid-90's R1100RS. I really wanted to buy the bike from his significant other when he passed to keep it on the road and ride it in his memory, but the subject was a touchy one because she had given him the bike as a gift, so I left well enough alone.
As fate would have it the same week, just down the road from me, a K100 had been sitting on a trailer for a couple weeks with a for sale sign on the back in the same red as my buddy's R1100RS. I loved the lines and especially the DOHC Valve Cover on the brick motor and had been admiring the bike when I drove to and from work, so I decided I had to have it when it became clear that the R-Bike wouldn't be mine, made a cash offer, and now the bike is sitting in my garage partially torn down so I can really run through everything and start the project I have planned. I definitely paid too much, this forum would have saved me some $ had I found it first, but at least it's a cheap bike anyway!
Here she is in all her semi-glory. 65k miles on the odo and has been sitting in a storage unit for 10 years. She starts and runs, but I have only ridden it up and down my driveway to make sure she ran and shifted with no terrible noise. Tires are too old and cracked for me to want to take her for a road test even at slow speeds. The first order of business is to change all the fluids, sync the throttles bodies, change some rubber parts that are in need and then I will finally take her for a good test ride.
