As a little add on to your first post here, this forum has been a life changer for me after the economic crap storm we got here post 2007.
Iin 2010 I ended up on a 1982 K100LT purely by chance. I wasn't even looking for one, my shopping list was really a Moto Guzzi Le Mans, Ducati 860 or something like that.
But someone somewhere suggesting trying a K bike then I found one for sale. At about a quarter of my budget.
I had never so much as sat on a BMW at any time in my life, apart from rides in a friends sidecar. So I took this K100LT for a test ride, liked it and bought it. It needed some work done so I trailered it home instead and dropped it off to a friends workshop with instructions to fix it.
He did so and thus began my K journey. I found the forum, had some issues and a long time member, 88, offered very helpful advice that led to us meeting up.
It also led to many other things, trips, helpful advice, sociable gatherings, travel and foreign travel, meeting many more K riders in the real world, not just locally but from around the globe. Some from travels, some who have come here. At this stage I can add Canada, US, UK, Spain, France, Australia, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and probably more.
Another one, we had our Christmas Brunch a few weeks ago, we were joined by SG Mayhew [and his wife Mary], who sold his K100LT back in 2015. He is now a sprightly 80 but it was like old times.
It has opened doors, constantly bringing new friends and folk.
It has also brought friends who have passed and made an impression but never got to meet in real life, Rossko, IngeK, Ariel Widget, Ken7Oaks.
I even bought a K off the forum last March, paid my money and had it collected all without seeing a photo. Appropriately it was on Patricks Day.
A special word of thanks too, to Crazy Frog, as in Bertrand Vogel, I have had the privilege of meeting him and although he has more or less retired from here, leaving the forum in some very good hands that would be good to meet some day. We continue to enjoy facebook video calls and a whiskey I keep for those occasions.
More than most groups, folk seem to open up a bit here. Its what makes it special.