Good morning everyone! I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Mike, i live in California. I am in my 50's and up until two weeks ago, i have always had Japanese bikes. My lasr bike was a 77 GL1000 that i sold because it needed some work and I needed a change.

For the last 6 months i had been looking for a brick, but wanted to find the right one, you know, a K100 with low mileage that had been babied its entire life. Well, I found it. I bought an 87 K100RT with 26k on the odometer, in perfect condition. After i bought it, it went straight to the shop for a service and spline lube.

The bike is beautuful and runs great! Its like riding a work of art.

What shop?

Where are you in CA?

Im in Northern California. I had a drive line service and spline lube at San Jose BMW. Where are you at?

As you may have found out, BMW dealers are rather expensive places to get spline lubes done.

I'm up in Washington but have ridden and spent a fair amount of time in CA.

I know a guy in the bay area with a K1100LT who might have a good reference or two for more affordable  indy service around the South Bay Area.

Yeah, I know they are.

In the future, I plan on doing most if the service work myself, but in this case, since I had never done it before, and it had an intermittent squeak in that general area, that turned out to be nothing, I really wanted to have a professional look at it.

But more than the fear of doing it myself, I was really anxious to take it for a nice ride over the hill to Santa Cruz ASAP.

I am very interested in having contacts in this area though that might be able to give me some advise on local resources for good K service and parts.

Thanks for the note, and I want to wish you some good riding weather for the summer. Washington is a very beautiful state.

Best regards,
Mike

Sign up at http://www.k11og.org/forum/ as well as here.  There are several Bay Area guys there.

(Don't worry about it being a K1100 site.  Most of the people there have owned other Ks and you'll be more than welcome there.)

Sounds great. Thanks for your help.

Best regards,
Mike