Hi All,
My bike is a 1994 K1100 LT. I bought it as a project after it spent 4 years in the previous owners shed. It's covered a mere 24k miles (MOT's seem to collaborate). I've decided to start at the front and work my way back. The first thing I find seems to be an alarming amount of movement in the floating disks both up and down plus rotational twist on both sides of the wheel. On closer examination of the wheel itself I find a fairly large buckle (probably from a pothole) that makes the wheel run 6mm out of true for 2 inches on the outer edge of the rim on one side only. My wheel has 94 (year I presume) and 2.5 x 18 stamped on it.  I head to eBay where I find a single used wheel for a K1100 (that is not ridiculously priced) that has the floating disks with it. My excitement was soon over by finding it is a 3 X 17 wheel. Being a little short for the K, I thought this might be an advantage to lower the bike by 1\2" and have a larger selection of tyres available but, reading what I can from this site and others, it would appear these wheels are not interchangeable. so what to do? Try to get my wheel straightened and look into new bobbins / disks, buy and fit the smaller wheel from Ebay, wait to see if anymore come up ( if without disks it would cost hundreds more by the time I've bought them if mine are not serviceable) or just follow the route of some others and fit USD Suzuki GXSR or Yam forks, wheel, disks and calipers if were talking these sort of prices anyway? The disks on my wheel do have a greater width than the 4mm shown as the service limit in the manual. Moving up, I find that the headstock bearings are notchy so have ordered new ones plus fork seals.

i have a front wheel and in the uk 07400600584

A replacement wheel is the only way to go. With a buckle that size, the wheel is toast. Motorworks also have s/h ones at what I would consider a reasonable price.

https://www.motorworks.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=k1100%20front%20wheel&find=k-series-k1100-k1100lt--09-1991---08-1999--124&sid=nxvCj5uVGo

I get those wheels straightened and balanced by an old guy who keeps you and himself busy while he works with reminders of our duty to jaysus. He must be right 'cause they come out flawless. He does good work, and is passing the biz onto his middle-aged son who keeps a much quieter tongue. It doesn't help you any since he's far, far away in western Washington state. He goes by the moniker Wheelwright.

Glyn wrote:Hi All,
My bike is a 1994 K1100 LT. I bought it as a project after it spent 4 years in the previous owners shed. It's covered a mere 24k miles (MOT's seem to collaborate). I've decided to start at the front and work my way back. The first thing I find seems to be an alarming amount of movement in the floating disks both up and down plus rotational twist on both sides of the wheel. On closer examination of the wheel itself I find a fairly large buckle (probably from a pothole) that makes the wheel run 6mm out of true for 2 inches on the outer edge of the rim on one side only. My wheel has 94 (year I presume) and 2.5 x 18 stamped on it.  I head to eBay where I find a single used wheel for a K1100 (that is not ridiculously priced) that has the floating disks with it. My excitement was soon over by finding it is a 3 X 17 wheel. Being a little short for the K, I thought this might be an advantage to lower the bike by 1\2" and have a larger selection of tyres available but, reading what I can from this site and others, it would appear these wheels are not interchangeable. so what to do? Try to get my wheel straightened and look into new bobbins / disks, buy and fit the smaller wheel from Ebay, wait to see if anymore come up ( if without disks it would cost hundreds more by the time I've bought them if mine are not serviceable) or just follow the route of some others and fit USD Suzuki GXSR or Yam forks, wheel, disks and calipers if were talking these sort of prices anyway? The disks on my wheel do have a greater width than the 4mm shown as the service limit in the manual. Moving up, I find that the headstock bearings are notchy so have ordered new ones plus fork seals.

I think that wheel you got is a K1100RS wheel as it uses a 17" wheel instead of the 18" wheel on the K1100LT. On the subject of discs I bought EBC replacements [complete] off Tills.de and even with paying import VAT into UK they are a lot cheaper than Motorworks. The time I bought mine Motorworks were £140 plus VAT, Tills cost me €104 plus VAT. K1100LT wheels are ten a penny, I have two spare sets here that I keep for spares.

Many thanks to all for the advice. I think stock is the way to go. I'm interested in your wheel Firstle if it is still available. I've sent you a WhatsApp message.