LOL If some one had told me two years ago I would be riding a brick and loving it I would have locked him in a nut house. but now Im the guy throwing the brick into every corner I can find and come out loving it. heavy but low sweet to ride but we all know that.so far i have made 4 trips across the us and only had two problems blew a tire on the rear after picking up a bottle opener next was a drive shaft My name is William i live in alamogordo New Mexico. I ride a 1985 k100rt

Sounds like another subscriber to K100 anonymous....":I am john and I ride a K100...its been 12 hours since I rode a K100 please help me"

join in mate we love to discuss stuff and share photos of how we fixed the same stuff years ago....cheers...

what makes it so bad is my brother sold me the bike then two weeks later he bought a 2004 k1200 now I know why

welcome aboard desert

yeah some folks get confused by the barge like steering, the heavy weight , the impossible length of legs requied to to keep the old girl upright ...the ancient design electronics and the low output power ...and over engineering

but ...

being honest, there arent any disadvantages at all , once you get the suspension back to good ...some new tyres and some periodic maintenance done .(often forgotten for years )the old girls sparkle .

the old brick is amazing machine ...still quite capable for a seriously long journey ...able to demolish a brand new ninja (up to 750) at any speed you care to mention , at a whim and a quick right hand ...parts still plentifull ...and cheep (if you look in the right places ) ...have a think, we have found opening up the zorst gives really good results ...and riding a standard seems ho humm after ,;

but shhh we dont want folks knowing this stuff else their monetary value will increase, and the consensus of devalued opinions by others will be found out to be false ....

hope you enjoy your ride, like us down under .

ok ill bite what is a zorst?

sorry i must explain ....aussies have a particular lazyness for pronounciation correctly durring conversation ...so we drop "h" s wher ever we can and other sylabils if we recon its not needed to explain what we're thinking

so a good example is present ....."exhaust" becomes "zorst " but only after modification ..try and get your head around that one ....grin

some explanation can be found in this thread .

https://www.k100-forum.com/t4528-exhaust-modification-things

I cannot comment on the picture page so here it is.

Holy snapping duck droppings DB

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

Does the front wheel even touch the ground with that load on?

got it mine dont have the bulge at the collector so I may have to saw my end off and take a peek inside. I have seen a slip on muffler used to replace the stock one looked nice.

and now we know why I have a bent swing arm LMAO Im not sure of the total weight but it road fine little top heavy at slow speeds had to un load it to put on centerstand to fix a flat

desertbeemer wrote:and now we know why I have a bent swing arm LMAO Im not sure of the total weight but it road fine little top heavy at slow speeds had to un load it to put on centerstand to fix a flat

OMG. We might call them bricks, but that doesn't mean you can build a house on them.

Awesome.

just another BRICK in the wall

desertbeemer wrote:just another BRICK in the wall

Touche

well i have plans for a trailer but need a tow bar any home made ones on here?

Thats not overloaded mate...you can still fit 2 dozen chickens on there....in fact it just looks cubed out not all that heavy...imagine a chunky pillion and you can see that you are fine with that lot.

I think you will be very happy with the K....we are....

i weighed the duffle bag full of clothes and it was 46 pounds saddle bags weighed close to 100 nothing but tools so maybe 300 total plus my 180 not to bad like you said it looks worse cause it was bulky stuff

desertbeemer wrote: 300 total plus my 180 not to bad like you said it looks worse cause it was bulky stuff

now a 300 pound girl friend pillion would look way more obvious....haha..not suggesting you get one unless of course...now thats a totally different topic.

Desert, is it some snake catcher stick at the top of your luggage?

well you get the cookie for today very good it is a snake graber. I collect reptiles for a living and out west we have some nasty rattlesnakes. One day ill figure out to make my beemer float and ride to aussyland and hunt the very diverce reptiles they have.

Do you collect reptiles for medical use?

Yep just like Johnson http://www.wallisandmatilda.com.au/johnsons-antidote.shtml

DB I also have trailer hitches for the K100. Look in the for sale section and give me a call.

no most of the reptiles I collect go to the pet trade here but I would trade just about anythine for just a trio of diamond carpets

They make great boots

Yeah the Diamond python sure is a beautiful creature, when I was a kid (now that's a long time ago) my brother and I could go down along the creek that ran past the village and find a dozen or more in less than 1/2 an hour. Any of then would be at least 8 feet and I remember one that was over 10feet with an enormous bulge in the middle where the latest prey was.

i was born in the wrong country I should have been born a aussy course i would be dead by now cause between death adders and king browns. or chasing lace monitors something would have got me lol

We certainly have a wonderoud collection of wildlife here.
I live right in the middle of the bush and see a lot of these things on a daily basis and yet am still amazed with it and just love living here.

desertbeemer wrote:i was born in the wrong country I should have been born a aussy course i would be dead by now cause between death adders and king browns. or chasing lace monitors something would have got me lol

I have done a lot of work in rural NSW with the railways and I have only ever seen 2 brown snakes and a bunch of black snakes in 7 years.
You really have to look for them to find them.

charlie99 wrote:so, "exhaust" becomes "zorst ".

But drop the 'r'. It's not pronounced 'ex-oRst' like what the typical American tongue does to the letter 'R', but more like 'zaw-st', with a very soft 'r'. Well, then there's that other American thing where the 'aw' gets opened up wide like the dentist is ready to drill. So that won't work either. Guess we'll have to work out how to tape record a bunch of Aussies from the forum, drinking beer and saying 'zorst'. It could be funny but it could be zorsting.

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desertbeemer wrote:You really have to look for them to find them.

Yet when I had a Korean exchange student staying with us on the base the only thing he was scared of was snakes and spiders ( according to his biography) so when I pointed out a red belly black snake in the front yard he said " that is not a snake it is a garden hose" I asked him if his garden hoses moved on there own in Korea too.....At least if you have red belly blacks, that are timid, you will not have any browns who are aggressive....by all accounts we have the most dangerous snakes in the world that keep largely to themselves.

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charlie99 wrote:saying 'zorst'. It could be funny but it could be zorsting.

Thats exactly it.....ex..zorst...ing...just drop the ex and the ing

well you ought to hear "ZORST" with my southern redneck draw sounds like Zaaost