New member,old brickbat.
'hope I get this posted in the right hole.
Thanks,for providing an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity about one of my favourite motorcycles,the clues as to what types ride them and why...I knew I was special but still don't know why.
Back in '86 I got enough cash squirelled away to get a new K100RS,so I took out a demonstrator for a spin and thought my dreams had turned into a nightmare.It was a pig to handle at walking pace and the front end wobbled on the overrun,so I parked it up and had a good look at the basics.Front tyre was bald.I took it back to the squealer and said it was too much.The young buck smelled money and said."A new brick variant,K75 model was due in the country at the end of the month and was better at the too much bit.The cash was burning a hole and my wife was about to give birth to my first born and knowing this to be the life changing thing it was,I ordered the K75 sport sight unseen,there and then..The first in the country,I believe.Wellll,I'd just started a new job and needed a decent commuting tool so all justified,the deal was done.
A quarter of a million km later,I thought I'd would try and find out why I hadn't broken her,yet....not one thing, apart from the bloody side panels, has fallen off.Er,except me,myself and I.Oh, and the green button.Not one misfire except when I accidentally key banged her with the kill switch and thought at least she's is from planet earth after all and was finally dead,but...she wasn't.Ah,yes the rear frame broke off just behind the shock mount but a few gussets welded where they should have been put by the dreamers at bmw (for special people like me)retrofitted me back on the road twenty years ago and seems to have kept the back on.An almost shagged out drive spline made me buy a new shaft and I've been greasing the basterds ever since.
Anyway,I thought I should find out what others had found out about this dream machine on one idle afternoon, recently, and I came across you lot.
Hi Johnny....I read it all and then.... changed the fuel lines a couple of days ago..thought,shit, am I a lucky bar steward or what?No flaming balls,yet.They were still good and so are all the rubbery bits .As good as new.Inside and out...Changed the fuel ones anyway.Just fossil fuel here and rain water,and none of that acid rain.Done all my own everything as I am not very trusting...I am guessing that they sent out a special lot of K's for their first dispatch to the farthest point on the globe that fateful month back in '86 when the moon and stars lined up,for me 'cos this lady hasn't missed a beat apart from two speedos under warranty and the pump seals(of course)and the welded up starter solenoid(what fun).Did the cam chain ,yeh and guides, for peices of mind.Now,with my personal service record going on for 250,000kms,all logged down to the tyers and sundry.
Do I want another one?No way,this ones truly golden.Does she burn oil?not a drop.nada.Does she smoke after smoko on the side stand?Na.never.Do I smoke after I Put it on the side stand?Am I allowed to?Na...f@k em.
Oh,my"avatar,"thingy is of my "bitch" bike which needs another bitch to push start her and a mobile tool chest to keep her started.She's the tart ,I luv er and the Beemer,well, she's ma missus.I'll go give her a flash and attaché it here.That's if I can knob it right.....hope jpg not got too many pixies.
hmm, she's not naked, she's decent,so I don't know why she's not appearing in the preview,just imagine her, that's if I can't knob it right, in Genral Motors Malachite green with a whole load of patina.(candy apple red chips, kode 575)
Queers from the dude....
