Hello, just started looking around this forum and am impressed with all the information here. Thanks so much.

I bought my first BMW last summer. It is a 92 K75RT and like it very much. I hope you don't mind a K75 owner here but your K100's are so similar and you guys have so much info here I couldn't stay away.

I have owned and ridden motorcycles since 1977. First a Kawasaki, then I upgraded to Honda Silverwings. I bought the 75RT because my Silverwing was getting so old and I wanted a bike just like it, ie, a reliable one-man touring motorcycle. I hope not to insult anyone by comparing a BMW to a Honda but I think that is exactly what i found. It is very similar to my 650 Silverwing but nine years newer and 20k fewer miles. Just what the doctor ordered.

thanks again,
wayne.

Welcome Wayne.

Nice to see you joining this group. could you please send your doctor's address to my wife. I would like to get a prescription for a 1990 K100rs
I guess the majority of us started riding on rice cookers! We couldn't afford a BMW in the late 70s?
Before the K models, jap bikes where technologically advanced in comparison of the old R models. The BMW change came with the r90s and r100rs.

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Cheers

Bert

If it's got two wheels, an internal combustion engine, carries you down the road with precision, puts a smile on your face and elicits pleasure, then Honda or BMW (or most anything else) we've got something in common. Welcome.

yep, K100RS and 1976Gooldwing do it for me. I like my cylinders in even numbers, but I don't discriminate ... welcome to the fold

Greetings from ye olde Germany...

Don't apologies for having a K75....they are smoother and lighter more efficient than the K100. That should start an argument.
Bert our webmaster (Crazy Frog) has one.
Welcome to the fold.
Ajays.

Howdy Wayne, welcome from way down under (Tasmania). Go the Aussie dollar I reckon !
Some of these guys are crazy, but me, nah, I'm alright, I just see the world a bit differently, mostly mechanical.
Post your queries, we'll all try to help, and toss in a bit of dry humour too,
Best regards,
Dennis

Ajays wrote:Don't apologies for having a K75....they are smoother and lighter more efficient than the K100. That should start an argument.
Ajays.

This is a "no brainer". A 3 cylinders will always be smoother than a 4. You are right Ajays, 1 less cylinder makes the k75 a lot lighter and reduces the gas consumption by 1/4. It is a joy on the small twisty roads.
The K75 has plenty of power but it miss the torque of the K100.
You see, no arguments!

Bert

Crazy Frog wrote:

Ajays wrote:Don't apologies for having a K75....they are smoother and lighter more efficient than the K100. That should start an argument.
Ajays.

This is a "no brainer". A 3 cylinders will always be smoother than a 4. You are right Ajays, 1 less cylinder makes the k75 a lot lighter and reduces the gas consumption by 1/4. It is a joy on the small twisty roads.
The K75 has plenty of power but it miss the torque of the K100.
You see, no arguments!

Bert

LOL, I can tell you guys like to have some fun. I think I'm going to like it here.
The things that Bert says is exactly why I choose the 75rt. I love to head out of state to the mountains once a year, and wanted something that could take me and my gear long distances yet be nimble enough to have some fun when I get there. My avatar picture is me in the Arkansas Ozarks two weeks after I bought the bike.

I have never been interested in large bikes. I have been all over this country on 650cc bikes. This is the largest engine I have ever owned. Always has seemed to be enough for me!

Hmmmm, no argument Bert, but I'm afraid torque does not fling you up the road, it's up to killowatts (or Horsepower) to do that.
Some people, including motoring writers get carried away with torque, and in doing so demonstrate their misunderstanding of this subject.

Dennis wrote:Hmmmm, no argument Bert, but I'm afraid torque does not fling you up the road, it's up to killowatts (or Horsepower) to do that.
Some people, including motoring writers get carried away with torque, and in doing so demonstrate their misunderstanding of this subject.

True, but when you get old and lazy like me, you just want to open the tap without doing a quick dance on the gear lever

When it's all said and done...it's only a 750

Welcome Wayne.

I got to throw a leg over a mate's new Honda CB400 four yesterday on an 80 kilometre blast through the twisties. She loves the bike and rides daily. When I rode it, to my surprise, except for having to wring its neck the jewel-like motor performed admirably and had no trouble keeping up with the larger displacement, well-ridden bikes.

To paraphrase The Swallows from 1951, sometimes 'it ain't the meat it's the motion'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpPeQyT36Tg

The rest you can surmise away to your heart's content!