Hi All,

I am from South Australia and have owned my 83K100RS for about 12 months. This is my first road bike but have been riding motocross and trail bikes for most of my life. I have always wanted a K bike ever since a SA Police bike officer pulled me up in the 80's and I thought it was the coolest looking thing ever. I am so in love with this bike and ride it every chance I get.
I got it cheap because it had some slight damage and was missing the mirrors, but I thought it wouldn't take to much to fix and the mirrors would be easy to get (how wrong was I ) I might tell you that saga one day! anyway after a few touch ups and a bit of a detail she came up a treat

Looking forward to chatting to you all and looking through the site cause i'm sure there's much to learn about these great bike's!!

very clean looking bike jud ....looks like youve done a great job ...welcome aboard mate

Nice bike!

Welcome to the forum.

HI Jud welcome to the forum, good looking bike you have there mate.

BIG D

Welcome on board nice looking bike.
Regards,
K-BIKE

Thanks for the welcome guy's!

When I done the touch ups on my bike, I needed the colour code for the paint but unfortunately the code label is gone. Which brings me to my first question? Can anyone tell from the pic's which blue it is?? I know it is not 'Atlantic Blue" or "Kiribu Blue" as I had them mixed and they were not a match. I had a guy mix some by hand that is a good match but it would be great to finally know what colour it is supposed to be. None of the paint suppliers I went to had codes for BMW bikes!

Thanks Jud

Nice bike mate , is that you that goes down montaque road in the morning ?? if so that photo does not do it justice ,that blue is fantastic

No, not me mate! but yes the blue is fantastic! photos never do a good enough job! Glossy, Rich and a mile deep!

toto if you can take a sample to one of the "better" auto paint suppliers ...they could maybe scan it ....the good guys have a paint lookup tables and sometimes can give you a manufacturers number ,

my local guys also gave me the printout of the formula for the original mix quantities (which i have misplaced darn it )

http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/paintcodes.htm

Have a look here, you might find the code.

Thanks, that narrows it down to 3 possibles

Give me the complete VIN and tomorrow I will plug it into the BMW ASAP computer on my desk and tell you what colour/code the factory painted it before it went out their doors. Today I learnt that my nice Marrakesh Red bike was originally painted a bronzy colour called Messing Metallic....sounds like a heavy metal band. But at least it's red like Blakey's!

Two Wheels Better wrote:Give me the complete VIN and tomorrow I will plug it into the BMW ASAP computer on my desk and tell you what colour/code the factory painted it before it went out their doors. Today I learnt that my nice Marrakesh Red bike was originally painted a bronzy colour called Messing Metallic....sounds like a heavy metal band. But at least it's red like Blakey's!

Thank You!! PM sent I appreciate your time!!

That's Alaskablau metallic, code M606, or just 606 in some paint mixer's catalogues. The bike was made on the 1st of December, 1983 and was intended for the Australian market. The extras that it originally had are option code 694, flat mirror glass (planglasspiegel), 766, a bench seat with a strap (halteriemen f. sitzbank), 522, hazard warning flashers, 651, a rear splash shield, and the salesman made $250 dollars on commission.

omg .....!!!!

Cheeky is a cheeky does.

WOW!! Thanks for that!! how cool to find out a bit of history. I only wish I had found this site sooner, it would of saved me and the paint guy some grief

"That's Alaskablau metallic, code M606, or just 606 in some..."

Schmartee pantz!

Hello JudsRS. I like the blue..