What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?

[Laitch]

Saturday installed new alternator drive dog, nutz, and cup. Yesterday ... trying to figure out why it chewed up, and spat the nutz out?  :dunno

Were the nutz assembled with their joint strands touching the base of the cup or the base of the driving dog?

[bocutter Ed]

Nutz went strand first into the cup, such that they'd straddle the bevel on the dog fin's tips.

[DavidATL]

I rode the K75 just over 100 miles today during which she clicked over 20k. Just getting broken in....

[K1300S]

took it to the track...so i could race cars.  hopefully the brick gets its own track time next weekend...

[BlitzenGruv]

Blitz, nice to hear that you're finally getting to enjoy your brick.  +1 on the coke.  I always switch to black coffee before heading home.  Lots of police looking to be DUI heroes around here.

Holiday weekend, the cops are looking for any excuse. This one was tight on my ass, and I'm sure that he was hoping I'd accelerate away.
The K is too heavy to ride drunk. It also lacks that old British drunk test, a kick start.  :hehehe

[TX brick]

Nutz went strand first into the cup, such that they'd straddle the bevel on the dog fin's tips.

https://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?57951-1985-K100-Monkey-nuts


Post number 6 is the wrong way, post number 8 is the right way.

[alabrew]

BlitzenGruv, I'll wager that a big difference between the '71 BSA and the '91 RS handling is the handlebars. My '85 Standard has higher, wider handlebars and is much easier to counter steer than the '91 with the short sport bars. I almost hang off trying to get it to turn like the '85.

[Scud]

Put in set of three 4-hole fuel injectors and changed the fork oil.


My butt-dyno says I got 5 more HP. It runs better at all RPMs. I don't know if the original injectors had ever been serviced - so this is probably an unfair comparison (old vs new). But whatever the case, it made a noticeable difference for me.


I used 5W Maxima fork oil, which is clear. The old fluid was blue and I think it must have been thicker, because the suspension has smoothed out a bit too.

[Laitch]

https://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?57951-1985-K100-Monkey-nuts


Post number 6 is the wrong way, post number 8 is the right way.

Those BMWMOA images can only be viewed by logged in members, apparently. Post them here.

[bocutter Ed]

Those BMWMOA images can only be viewed by logged in members, apparently. Post them here.

Yes please.
Strange, I was expecting to see a YouTube or 2 but, nada.

[BlitzenGruv]

BlitzenGruv, I'll wager that a big difference between the '71 BSA and the '91 RS handling is the handlebars. My '85 Standard has higher, wider handlebars and is much easier to counter steer than the '91 with the short sport bars. I almost hang off trying to get it to turn like the '85.

Nah, the big difference is over 200lbs weight difference. I have to plan ahead for every corner on the K. The old Brit bikes had ESP, if you enter a corner at the right speed the bike finds the correct line.

[BlitzenGruv]

Today I replaced the feed line from the tank to the injectors. The old one was a bit kinked from the sharp turn under the tank.
Tomorrow I shall use propane to check for air leaks before putting the plastic back.
Packing my saddlebags for the trip to Barber Vintage Festival next weekend near Birmingham. Anybody else going?
I'll be in the vendor area at the Nashville TonUp club booth. Stop by and have a cold one.

BTW: I also went out looking for some heat-sink grease for the ignition box. Y'all said that it was a good idea to renew it.
Auto Zone web site said they had it in stock, but nobody at the store knew what I was talking about. Struck out at the other major stores too. NAPA was closed by then.
No electronics stores left in this town.
Worst thing about the interweb is that I can no longer buy anything locally.

[blackie1]

sold the 1992 K1100LT
bought a 1991 K75RT (naked) with givi screen


pulled the tank off, de oxit and dielectric grease on all electrical connections, they really were in great condition anyway. looked like it had just rolled out of the factory and not 26 years old thats for sure.
this bike has been well looked after


I was keen to see if it would fire up after my fiddling so I whacked the tank back on and hit the starter and it turned over but didn't  fire up.
I tried again .....same result
then I spotted the L-jetronic unit still sitting on my bench with the side covers lol  :clap:


almost wet myself laughing


installed the offending unit hit the button and she purred into life.


carried out Johnnys  backspin starter maintenance trick, went for a fang round the blocked , topped up the gas and garaged it ready for next weekend.
perfect.

[CNRED]

Am I the only one that is not getting these pictures?

[jakgieger]

CNRED, No you are not the only one...

[blackie1]

yeah sorry about the muck up with the pics,
 i need to decrease their file size, will swot up on that and have another try.

[blackie1]

hopefully here are some pics

[CNRED]

Very Nice!!

[bizzaro]

Nice score! :2thumbup: How many k on the odometer?  Looks like you have the case hardware so you can just use your side cases from your K11LT if ya want to.  I am jealous!  I want a 75.  oops..................just saw it in your info line............40Kms................or in Yankee terms 24854 miles.

[blackie1]

thanks CNred and biz.


came with its own tragkorbs but to be honest i hardly ever use them.
actually it  also came with all the original RT fairings, screen etc etc in a couple of boxes but I will probably flick those off as they are just taking up room in my shed.


goes great and biz I reckon you would love it after your 1100. I haven't missed the extra horsepower of my 1100 at all.


I didn't realize how much manhandling that I had to give the 1100 to get thru corners quickly, hanging my ass off the seat, looking round the mirrors with some heavy duty counter steering lol


first decent corner I went thru on the K75 i nearly left the road on the "inside" of the corner as I wasn't prepared for how easy it goes around corners

[bizzaro]

Damn, Thanks for the input! I have almost bought several K75"s.  Now I am definitely on the prowl for one   Yea, the 11 is such a beast.  Oh, and I use my cases all the time. My bike is my primary transportation.  I do everything on it....shopping, commute to work, and just cruising.  I am working on 8000 miles since April.  I think I have put maybe 1500 miles, probably less, on my car in that same amount of time. 

[BlitzenGruv]

I just rode back from Barber Vintage Festival in Birmingham.
Another darn tropical storm threatens to dump really serious weather in the area. They cancelled everything for Sunday.
I bugged out about 15:00 today and got home ahead of the rain. Gustav like cruising at 80.
Spent most of my time helping my club sell T-shirts. I didn't get to do much shopping. I was tempted to by a nice pair of correct mirrors, but of course they were the wrong color. Didn't have room in my bags for them anyway.

[The Mighty Gryphon]

Cured some electrical whack on Ilsa this morning by cleaning the starter and ignition switch.  WIll post a more detailed thread elsewhere.

She now starts and runs like she's supposed to.

[BlitzenGruv]

Learned one thing about touring. I gotta keep a screwdriver in my tank bag. Had the left rear TS lamp go out. Too much trouble to unpack all my stuff to get under the seat for the tool kit just to change a lamp.

[alabrew]

Been working on the '91 K100RS 4V.

Put on a new set of tires, Metzler Roadtec Z8's. Low speed handling is better as the old front was showing it's dual compound and there was a ridge of rubber proud in the middle of the front.

I also removed the speedo. to change out some of the LED bulbs the PO had installed. I had a lightly glowing bulb minder & temp. light and the battery light was always lit at idle. Changing the alternator light back to a standard bulb also seems to have solved my engine dying problem coming off the interstate and when I chopped the throttle off.

Today, I'm planning on moving the Ohlins shock adjustment knob from the lower right. My pants leg has caught a few times with close calls and just the other day I went :falldown: (well I went over on the other side) when my pants caught when stopping for a construction zone. Pretty embarrassing to tip over in front of the worker.

My headlight low beam has gone out and I will be replacing the bulb too. Hopefully I'll be able to source a bulb locally.


Also going to swap out the temperature sending unit on the water pump, my temp. gauge is showing full hot but the cluster light isn't on. The PO had a replacement part but had never installed it. Unfortunately, he didn't give it to me until after I had changed the coolant, so I'm going to try a quick swap.