New in Aus

[rich]

G'day from a Brit down under,

Have just stumbled across this site.
Long time BM owner, R and K, although both are now future project bikes, so will be trawling the site for some top tips.

Will post some pics of the old girl over the years, not looking her best now - but hopefully will be restored in the not so near future.

Cheers, Rich

Here she is:

[Crapdealerbob]

Rich

Where did you get that top case, and how did you mount it to the bike without the luggage rack??

[frankenduck]

Rich

Where did you get that top case, and how did you mount it to the bike without the luggage rack??

That's a BMW top case I believe.  They have one in the factory pic of the K100LT.  I don't think they made very many of them and it doesn't even show up in the parts catalog.

Welcome to MB.com, Rich. 8)

[Crapdealerbob]

That's a BMW top case I believe.  They have one in the factory pic of the K100LT.  I don't think they made very many of them and it doesn't even show up in the parts catalog.


Frankenduck   - thanks, I'd love to find one of those..

[Phil Marvin]

Frankenduck   - thanks, I'd love to find one of those..

Hi, Crapdealerbob,
    Funny you should bring it up.  I happen to know where there are both a topbox and the mounting bracket.  Three guesses where!  My late wife wanted to mount the topbox onto her (now my) K75A/3, so she found and bought both the box and the bracket off of fleabay.  There is a chrome rack mounted on top of the topbox for tying on additional stuff (tent, maybe, etc.)  It is not perfect, having a few scrapes, etc., and it has the holes drilled where the rear speaker holder was, at one time, attached.  It was not included when Harriet bought the topbox.  But since the lid is dark green with gold pinstripes, you would want to have it painted anyway to match your gorgeous bike.  I can provide a key which will work the lock.  I don't know if it is the "correct" key, but I just tried out my stock of keys and found a couple which worked.
   

[rich]

Hi guys

Thanks for the welcome and the interest.

I got the box somewhere east of San Fran many years ago - I'll remember the place as soon as I log off no doubt. It is a BM part, I'll get the part numbers for you later if you want.
Originally they mounted just through the 4 holes for the original rack but turned out it was too heavy for the tail fairing and caused cracks, so then there was a bunch of bracketting (?) made to support it. I have them somewhere too - never got around to mounting them.

Cheers, Rich

Here's another pic from a BM catalogue:

[Crapdealerbob]

Frankenduck   - thanks, I'd love to find one of those..

Hi, Crapdealerbob,
    Funny you should bring it up.  I happen to know where there are both a topbox and the mounting bracket.  Three guesses where!  My late wife wanted to mount the topbox onto her (now my) K75A/3, so she found and bought both the box and the bracket off of fleabay.  There is a chrome rack mounted on top of the topbox for tying on additional stuff (tent, maybe, etc.)  It is not perfect, having a few scrapes, etc., and it has the holes drilled where the rear speaker holder was, at one time, attached.  It was not included when Harriet bought the topbox.  But since the lid is dark green with gold pinstripes, you would want to have it painted anyway to match your gorgeous bike.  I can provide a key which will work the lock.  I don't know if it is the "correct" key, but I just tried out my stock of keys and found a couple which worked.



  Phil   I'll shoot you an email about this...
   

[Lawrence]

Welcome Rich,
You've some history with K-bikes, so I suppose you'll be contributing some of your own top tips to this wonderfully useful site. 
Here's a question for you: what sort of seat is pictured on the blue and red bike?  It appears the center is actually hollowed out....

[frankenduck]

Looks like a Corbin Dual Tour to me.

[johnny]

we did a corbin factory tour a few years ago...

they had mostly their lifestyle and bmw units on display...

back in the day corbin made a dual tour called the king n queen...

im thinking thats one of them... the modern dual tour are somewhat different and confusing similar... they just have not updated their photo...

j o

[motodude]

back in the day corbin made a dual tour called the king n queen...

im thinking thats one of them... the modern dual tour are somewhat different and confusing similar... they just have not updated their photo...

j o

I have one of those seats.  Came on my '90 K75RT (dealer installed).  The cheap Corbin plastic cover wore out a long time ago.  I got some leather and my sister-in-law and I recovered it (using the original seat cover pieces as a pattern).  Those seats are more comfortable on an RS than an RT.  Nowhere near as comfortable as a Russel.

Tom

[rich]

Sorry for the lack of responses, computer died, job changed, etc etc.

Will try and get some more facts and figures and pictures sorted soon.

Have just splashed out on another old K, 1985 K100RT, cost me all of 750AUD, so about 2000USD!!

Plan is to combine the best of both, if there are any best bits.

More info before too long.

Cheers

Rich

[billday]

Hi Rich,

Thanks for the pics. The K in the first picture has a "standard" radiator shroud -- an item I am seriously lusting after. You don't happen to have one gathering dust in the garage do you?

Regards,

Bill