New 85 K100 Rider in San Diego, Proud Owner of the Purple Dragon

[fadingfastsd]

Hey motobrickers...glad to be on here. I've been cruising the forum and it looks like a real helpful place. I'm Evan, I run RaceTech Electric. (www.racetechelectric.com), we make stators, voltage regulators and other motorcycle electrical parts. Nothing for the K's though...but is there any electrical need on these? I can develop something...

Anyways, I've been riding for years, and had tons of different bikes. I've had a couple 70's airheads, and have always been interested in the K bikes. I recently picked up a steal of an 85 K100 for $1400 here in San Diego. It's got about 45k miles on it, and runs well. It's going to be my daily commuter. I normally turn about 70 miles a day, so I needed something that gets good mileage and is comfortable. This fits the bill.

Anyways, here's a few pictures. I'ts called the Purple Dragon for obvious reasons. No clue what somebody was thinking with the paint on this thing..but I wasn't gonna let that stop me.








Anyways, to start off I'm looking for a new seat right away. The seat foam and cover is wrecked as you can see.

Glad to be here!
Evan

[WoahGold]

Welcome, we're glad to have you.

That is quite a "unique" paint scheme.

[frankenduck]

You ride that thing in public?  :neener:

Just pulling your leg.  14 bones for a running K100 with those miles in SoCal is a great deal.  Good score. :2thumbup:

[Tom05301]

Welcome.

Very cool paint job.

You might want to check out the seat discussion in the Lieberry

http://www.motobrick.com/index.php/topic,2121.0.html

[fadingfastsd]

Thanks for the heads up. I read the seat discussion. I'll find something, I'm on the lookout. I just rode 250+ miles tonight, from San Diego to Santa Barbara, and some side roads. It was a blast on the K100. I'm really going to like this bike. It's super smooth and easy to crank out miles on the freeway. Even splits lanes decently.

I had a surprise when I pulled into my girlfriends parents house here in SB. I went to put the bike on the center stand....and heard a pop as it came up on the stand, and it dropped to the ground. The left side of the center stand, with the foot push tab just broke clean off and fell on the ground. It must have been cracked straight through, and/or the vibrations from the trip tonight made it worse. Weird thing was I had the bike on the centerstand all night last night as I was packing the luggage for my trip!? Anybody else seen these break? I have the piece..I might weld it at my shop, or replace it.

Other than that, my odometer/trip meter stopped working. I reset the tripmeter after getting gas to '0', and it ceased to turn anymore. Same with the odometer numbers. The speedo works fine though. Any tips on fixing these?

Now on to finding a new seat, dialing in the suspension and fixing all the broken shit.

[detbmw]

Other than that, my odometer/trip meter stopped working. I reset the tripmeter after getting gas to '0', and it ceased to turn anymore. Same with the odometer numbers. The speedo works fine though. Any tips on fixing these?

Now on to finding a new seat, dialing in the suspension and fixing all the broken shit.

My trip meter & odometer broke when I was resetting the trip meter to zero, about 30 minutes after I bought the bike. I sent the instrument cluster to Overseas Speedometer in Austin, TX. Cost $200 for the repair and return UPS shipping. I have no complaints.

[billday]

When I bought my K, many gears etc. in the odo were broken. I bought a new odo from Max for about a hundred bucks, wasn't too difficult to swap it out.

[Rick G]

The purple dragon isn't what I would do but it is very good artwork.
Maybe you could find someone who would exchange it instead of just destroying it for a repaint.