1 Greetings from Manchester England Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:26 am
Mungrel
New member
Greetings all!
I've been riding close to 40 years, and I currently own a 1992 K1100LT with 80k miles on the clock. I also own an '02 R1150 GS Adventure, but that's another story.
The K1100 came to me via a friend after it had been sat in his garage for a couple of years, with around 100 miles a year between mandatory vehicle inspections ( known as MOT tests here in the UK).
It started misbehaving almost immediately for me and puked all its coolant out over the boots of the MOT tester: turns out the fan had seized. ( They rev the nuts off vehicles to shove a probe up their pipe to check emissions....now there's a theme for a South Park movie, eh, Cartman? lol)
I replaced the fan, thermostat, coolant etc, and found loads of other little issues that became progressively bigger ones. I ended up replacing the whole exhaust system after finding more than one crack in the welded downpipes, along with a struggle getting some gnarled and cross-threaded studs out whilst I was at it.
Lots of electrical gremlins persist, ( when it gets over 30 degrees C here the rev counter stops working, and the temp gauge oscillates wildly for example) which are amusing and annoying by turns, and I had to have all the brake calipers refurbished due to seized pistons and general lack of use.
Oh yes, I completely removed every trace of the mark one ABS system, wires and switches included.
Cheap winter bikes eh?
I'll post pics as and when but for now, as a retiree, it's granddad's taxi time in between house renovations.
Andy
I've been riding close to 40 years, and I currently own a 1992 K1100LT with 80k miles on the clock. I also own an '02 R1150 GS Adventure, but that's another story.
The K1100 came to me via a friend after it had been sat in his garage for a couple of years, with around 100 miles a year between mandatory vehicle inspections ( known as MOT tests here in the UK).
It started misbehaving almost immediately for me and puked all its coolant out over the boots of the MOT tester: turns out the fan had seized. ( They rev the nuts off vehicles to shove a probe up their pipe to check emissions....now there's a theme for a South Park movie, eh, Cartman? lol)
I replaced the fan, thermostat, coolant etc, and found loads of other little issues that became progressively bigger ones. I ended up replacing the whole exhaust system after finding more than one crack in the welded downpipes, along with a struggle getting some gnarled and cross-threaded studs out whilst I was at it.
Lots of electrical gremlins persist, ( when it gets over 30 degrees C here the rev counter stops working, and the temp gauge oscillates wildly for example) which are amusing and annoying by turns, and I had to have all the brake calipers refurbished due to seized pistons and general lack of use.
Oh yes, I completely removed every trace of the mark one ABS system, wires and switches included.
Cheap winter bikes eh?
I'll post pics as and when but for now, as a retiree, it's granddad's taxi time in between house renovations.
Andy