I'm gonna skip all the boring stuff and just show you the bike as I bought it with its first modification.
This is pretty much how I bought it, except upon purchase it had bias ply tires and the standard y spoke rims front and back.
Upon following a suggestion made on this forum I quickly purchased a k75s/k1100LT rear wheel and added some nicer tires and boy did it improve the handling.
It is an 84 K100 2V (oh how I wish it have been a 4V)
The previous owner called it a bobber/caferacer blend and did a real nice job of working on the rear end: shortening the frame and exhaust, relocating the license plate and adding LED blinkers.
The front however is a bit too much Harley Davidson for my taste. Though my summer holidays were filled with getting too know this beauty it has now come to that point where I take everything apart again...
I like to do my modifications in waves consisting of a couple of mods at the same time and then evaluating the impact it has. The wave I'm applying to it now is doing the following:
-replacing stock handlebars with strap-ons
-replacing stock instrument cluster with cheap ebay aftermarket cluster (fabricating a custom mount as we speak)
-replacing mirrors with bar-end mirrors (still waiting for them in the mail...)
-removing black headlight fairing and relocating blinkers
-relocating key-barrel to be flush with the triple T
-replacing all fluids
and that should pretty much cover this wave.
Future potential mods:
-I want to add a paralever to remove the jacking effect and apparently it also has an impact on the handling in corners
-Better braking
-I'm (seriously) toying with the idea of replacing the engine with a k1200rs for added torque and hp, however seeing as this is a 2V many have adviced against this train of thought...
Upon that last point, when researching the subject many a folks link to a pdf which has since been removed:
http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/engine_upgrade/BMWMOA_ON_engine_upgrade.pdfDoes anybody have a saved copy they'd be willing to send me? I'd love a good read!
