92KK 84WW Olaf
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Make sure not to have the oil level too high as that can cause other problems. The sight glass red dot is the level, but make sure you do not go above the red circle. Since the bike is new to you there is no way of knowing if it uses any oil so keep a good eye on it. Ks don't necessarily use much oil and I rarely need to add any. A blast of blue smoke on start up is not a sign of trouble, its a sign of normality. Due to the design if you park on side stand oil gets into the combustion chamber. If you are going to be leaving bike on side stand turn engine off before you lean the bike over and that helps reduce the blue puff.
Like Point Seven Five most of my riding is in that rev range too but I get on the motorway often enough. A K is a different animal if you let it up through the gears. It will sit all day at 5,500 - 6,000 rpm and you will feel you can do it all day too. They are mile munchers too. You will enjoy the autobahn although my last experience on them was so much traffic we didn't get about 100kmh!
A very important place to lubricate. Your clutch lever has a pivot pin and when you pull the clutch lever you will see the cable and the nipple on the end. The nipple is suppose to rotate as you pull the lever. A drop of lubricating oil on that nipple is important, also check the cable at that point is ok and undamaged. Probably worth putting a new cable in when you are doing a service, and by the way the nipple does not come with the cable so you must get that separately. If it does break there the nipple will fall out and be lost....
Let us know what tyres are on the RT too....you will see the date on the side of them as a 4 digit number.
Some K100s [not the K75] get a vibration around 4,000rpm. Interestingly my 84 RT does not have this and is silky smooth all the way in the same way as a K75 I tried out recently. Its one of the reasons I chose to keep and do so much work to it.
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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