Knewbie- Oregon

[sweatmark]

Hi. Current R1150 oilhead and F800 owner, intent on fulfilling my Beemer destiny with a deep plunge into Flying Brick waters. I somehow followed (franken)duck over here after reading about his K75F build on ADV.

K fever started during college at UW (Seattle) with opportunity to ride fellow engineering student's '85 K100RS in 1985. He was a rich kid with garage full of bikes, road racer, coast-to-coast airhead rider, the real deal. His RZ350 got my attention back then, but memories of that K have lingered over the years and spawned ideas for a good garage project.

Live in western Oregon, and you can find me sniffing around any & all old K-bikes at the BMW MOA rally in Salem this year.

Mark
Oregon
Now: 2004 R1150R Rockster, 2007 F800S
Then: R850R, R1100R, R1150R, R1200C, Buell, crotch rockets

[sembrando]

Welcome! Good luck finding your K.

[TIV]

Wilkommen, nice to have you.  :2thumbup:

[Qdude]

Oh- regon is Oh-so nice.
Welcome and,... well...
Here is to wrenching on the best.

How 'bout them Hawks huh?

[orforester]

Welcome aboard, Ducker is the best, knows everything about K bikes, and you csan find it all here.

Lots of us K bike riders in the area, Dallas, Lebanon, Alsea, you find us all over.

I have seen quite a few nice ones on CL as of late:
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/mcy/3687247454.html
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/mcy/3685431365.html
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/3659601296.html
http://boise.craigslist.org/mcy/3633527340.html
http://boise.craigslist.org/mcy/3631123308.html

Just a sample

[sweatmark]

Thanks.

Yep, have seen several good bike options pop up in Oregon/Washington CL. A basket case would probably be appropos: the project I have in mind would not be a classic restoration, but rather a retro-modern K cafe. Our F800 is stock, my Rockster has the usual long-term tweaks for travel & performance, but the K project would be stripped down, Less is More, using spare parts currently stashed in the garage: trackday-tuned Buell/Showa front end, Penske race shock, Euro instruments/signals/mirrors, one of a couple wheel sets.

Really like what this guy created/modified:
http://www.roelscheffers.nl/?p=1108

Katana/Hans Muth-ish, don'tcha think? Nicely emphasizes the "Compact Drive System".

I was digging through my MOA Owners News collection this afternoon, looking for the article about the K1200 engine + K1100 transmission + K100 standard frame/body, but cannot find all of 2008/2009 archive. Anybody know the specific edition or have access to that article?

Also, help me understand why there's motobrick, K11OG, k100-forum, k-bikes.com? I know the i-bmw group is K1200RS/GT and the later transverse K1200/1300s... almost bought one of those after a test ride... great motor!

[turq]

Welcome, Oregonian.
I found one(k75) on CL Salem under bmw it's in NE Portland. At 43K it might be the best example I've seen local.
Good luck..