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Allenn

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Hi Guys,

Just a quick intro I've been meaning to get to over the past while; I have a moment and it's slow here at work on Saturday, so I thought I'd do it now Very Happy .

I'm here in 'ol TO now, after spending a few years on the wet coast (Vancouver), doing the snowboard/mountain bike thing in the 90s. Rode motorcycles all the way through it, but never a BMW, despite having spent a couple of seasons in Germany/Austria over those years.  I toured through Europe 3 times and saw plenty of them, but never rode one until last year.

How did that happen you ask? Well, after six months in Japan, I had thought I was done with motorized transport (don't ask...), but upon returning to Toronto and discovering that a friend in the bicycle industry had a 1968 BSA he was using as spare shop stool/tool stand (I'm not kidding...), I got pulled back into the bike world and bought both a Honda and BMW to fix up and ride.

The beemer in question - a blue 1985 2 Valve K100RS - came from a nice fellow who had to make space in his garage and, sadly, needed to get rid of the old girl. I picked her up in 2014 and rode most of the year until last October, when the wiring harness fried (L combination switch, main harness portions) and ended my season. I got a replacement harness on ebay and later, a parts bike ('87) from a guy up near Barrie, ON, who got it from a guy for the same reason for his RT.

As it stands, I've got 1.5 K100 bikes to play with over the winter and, since I've been riding the Honda all this year (still commuting with it), the K-bike is definitely the project. I'm hoping I can solve some problems with your help and be riding in the Spring. I'm not new to wrenching, but fuel injected bikes are new to me, as my last bike was a 2000 Kawasaki Ninja, which I toured on and sold in Germany... ah, the irony. 

I went to an event called Mods/Rockers in September here in Toronto with a group of Honda CX'ers. There I met a guy who had a K100 with a small toy monkey in the fairing... The fellow who had this bike was older and smoked a lot - the bike itself was a faded, candy-apple red, K, fully-faired. He was one of two K100 guys at the event; the other guy you can see in this video with a cafe'd K at ~3:18, I think.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV50LOPmp0 Didn't meet the second guy, but the bike is pretty neat.

Anyhow, it was a fun ride/event, followed by  Beer drinker and a variety of distractions at the Duke, but I sure wish there were more Brickers around to talk to, as I had questions...many questions...

So there you go, fellow Klotzenfahrer - a bit about me. Yes, I also speak German. Who says snowboarding isn't useful? New Member Intro 112350

Time to get back to work.

Cheers and best,

Al

PS: Here's a link to the ride/event if any of you are around for next year: http://www.modsandrockerstoronto.com/

Cheers.

    

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brickrider

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Welcome Allenn, The technical expertise freely given here is deep and wide.  Someone will surely have an answer to whatever problem you bump up against.


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Rick G

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Hi Ya Al Great to have you aboard. Now if you take a seat the rest of the loonies in the asylum will wander past an say hi. New Member Intro 177912


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"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."   Dalai Lama


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AL-58

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Hi Al

Al


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'93 K1100LT
'08 F650GS (798cc)
'19 R1250RS

+ another boxer engined motorcycle and sidecar

"When I'm too old and too foolish to handle a sidecar I'll buy a Sportsbike"

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92KK 84WW Olaf

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Ah now we are not all looneys. Some of us are Eccentrics.

Welcome too and you are in the right place. Ask any questions and someone will have answers. Seems like you have the travel bug so do feel free to drop in over here too.


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

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Allenn

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LOL.. Sounds like I`m in the right place.

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Cheers!

    

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nvboy

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Great to have another Canadian connection on the forum.  You moved FROM Vancouver TO Toronto?  Must have been a great job.....

Darrin


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gmaizey

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Welcome Al from the other side of the big ditch....

I'm quite new here myself but in the short time onboard this forum I'm amazed at the expertise of the members and their willingness to assist whenever you have a question/problem with your K....

Safe riding

Graeme

    

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RT

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Allenn don't listen to them, run away whilst you still only have 1.5 Kbikes, you can still get away mate.
Welcome.


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92KK 84WW Olaf

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Nah too late to run away. Allenn is hooked good and proper

Look at poor Indian036......4 new Ks in one post.

Even Curley over here was new to the forum and had a K. A few weeks later met him again and he seemed to have 3 Ks.

Truth is Allen it is a great forum and we do all enjoy a laugh too. The level of expertise and advice is awesome and very clever too. Main thing is do not ever be afraid to ask a question no matter how simple it may seem.

Only yesterday a few of us here had a great few hours with Gaz80 who travelled up from Australia with his wife for a 3 week wander and dropped in on some forum members in UK as well as here.


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

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Point-Seven-five

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Welcome from the other side of the small pond(Lake Ontario).


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Present: 1991 K100RS "Moby Brick Too"
 
Past:
1994 K75RT "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"
1988 K100RS SE "Special Ed"
1994 K75S "Cheetos"
1992 K100RS "Moby Brick" R.I.P.
1982 Honda FT500
1979 Honda XR185
1977 Honda XL125
1974 Honda XL125
1972 OSSA Pioneer 250
1968 Kawasaki 175
    

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1990k75

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Welcome Allenn, glad to see another Canadian on here (yes, I'm from Quebec but still consider that Canada)  Laughing 

Whatever questions you may have, someone here will have an answer.

Cheers, Lorne & Joanie


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Past bikes - Yamaha YL-1, Honda XL-125, 1967 BSA 650 Lightning

Current - 1990 K75RT (in drydock) & 1995 K75RT VIN # WB1056503S0372669
            - 2011 Suzuki V-Strom 650
            - 2011 Yamaha XT250

Who sez I'm too old to ride?
    

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88

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Great intro. Another looney/eccentric trundling past to say hi from across the Atlantique!

@Olaf..... When you're rich and mad your eccentric when your poor and mad your looney! I'm ectooney at the moment cheers


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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine from 1600 years ago & still true!

K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes. 
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.
    

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92KK 84WW Olaf

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As the song said 'Two Out of Three Aint Bad'. So I am mad and Eccentric. !!


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

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