Welcome on board beemerbike.
This site is growing rapidly and the major subjects for the posts are technical questions and answers.
Contrary to the majority of other forum, we are a bit restrictive as we are mostly talking about one type of bike.
We have a pool of riders with deep knowledge of the 'brick' technology and often they will do tests on their own k100 before replying to a question.
We are not always boring with mechanical talks and have posts on other subjects (and certainly some humor too).
Hope that you will feel comfortable among us and find answers to your questions.
K-Bike was talking about your weather and the salt, and here in Cdn we are sharing the same passion for shoveling snow! Since NAFTA and the free trade agrements with the US, it seems that you are sharing more of your storms with us. In political-economical language, when a country over export, it's called "dumping". In real life when we see a storm coming from the south, we call it "dumping" too.
Cheers,
Crazy Frog.