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1Back to top Go down   Hi from a sinking Somerset. Empty Hi from a sinking Somerset. Tue 21 Jan 2014, 13:09

blacknails

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Hullo to all from a sinking Somerset. I needed a big/reliable/good mpg/home maintainable commuting bike 2 years ago and bought a K100RS with 46k on the clock. It now has 59k and what a machine. Last year i rode it 1270 miles in 5 days and it delivered. Weather was not to kind either. I get the normal niggling problems with vibration at 65mph, and the intermitant speedo. But thats called character. The bike gets gets ridden in all weathers, and lives under a bike cover on the street. The mods i've fitted are a piece of rubber matting between the rear wheel and clutch arm bellows, a set of crash bars, and a givi box. Thanks for a great forum. Plenty of quality infomation for a newbie on how to maintain one of these bikes using your toolbox not your wallet. Regards. Blacknails.

    

2Back to top Go down   Hi from a sinking Somerset. Empty Re: Hi from a sinking Somerset. Tue 21 Jan 2014, 13:19

MikeP

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Welcome.

Is your bike 8 or 16 valve?


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GTJos

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Hi from a sinking Somerset. 177912 Hi 'blacknails' !
Love your nickname; have some of my own right now (just got out of the shed where I've been fidling at my bikes).
Very welcome over here and yes: there is lots of good info, given in a nice way by blokes 'all over the world'.
In fact: there's always someone online, no need to feel lonely at any given time  Cool .
Do yourselve a favour and paste the last 7 digits of your VIN in your signature ? In case of technical trouble that's proven to be very helpfull.

Enjoy and: hope to meet someday, somewhere !

Jos


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Hi from a sinking Somerset. Deutch10Ich bin enge Kirchröatsjer jong; adieë wa ?! Hi from a sinking Somerset. Deutch10
                                1992  K1100LT 6458188
                                1987 K100LT (RS-fairing) 0170844 + sidecar EML GT2001
                                1986 K100RS 0085647 + sidecar Velorex 562
                                1985  K100RT  0027026
    

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Comberjohn

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Welcome to the forum, black nails.
Sometimes cleaning the sender on the rear hub cures a dodgy speedo.


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2010 VFR 1200F DCT 
2010 R1200GS(gone)
1986 K100 Silver(gone)
2012 K1600GT(gone)
1984 K100RT Madison Silver(gone)
1989 K100LT Stratus Grey(gone)
1984 K100 Red(gone)
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92KK 84WW Olaf

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Blacknails,

You are very welcome and great to see another new face. Good news is that there seems to be a few members down your way too so a chance to actually meet a few of the names face to face.

Enjoy the K and the forum.


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

6Back to top Go down   Hi from a sinking Somerset. Empty Re: Hi from a sinking Somerset. Tue 21 Jan 2014, 16:15

charlie99

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welcome aboard

a nice ride the rs ....enjoy !


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'86 K100 RT..#0090401 ..."Gerty" ( Gertrude Von Clickandshift ) --------O%O
'86 k100 rs.. #######..  "Fred " (f(rame) red ) ( Fredrick leichtundschnell ) - -
bits and pieces from many kind friends across the k100 world ...with many thanks ..
1987 k100rs ########   "Red"  - (red sports rs TWB style )
1989 K100rt #009637   "Black Betty"  (naked rt ala Nigel , now sporting an rs main fairing )
    

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Rick G

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Hi Ya Blacknails, are they like that because you cant use a hammer or are you a diesel fitter.

And don't worry about the sinking its just the global warming that isn't happening  BTW it was 48.7°C at Birdsville 2 days ago and probably hotter yesterday.


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Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."   Dalai Lama


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moose97

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Welcome!


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krambo

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Welcome aboard from Cornwall Wink


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"Aut viam inveniam aut faciam." Hi from a sinking Somerset. Uk-bmw12
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10Back to top Go down   Hi from a sinking Somerset. Empty Re: Hi from a sinking Somerset. Wed 22 Jan 2014, 11:43

larrikin

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Welcome to the Knuthouse. Is that sinking feeling because Australia won the Ashes 5 nil and look like doing another whitewash in the One Day Games.


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Hi from a sinking Somerset. Au-log11Hi from a sinking Somerset. Au-log11
88 BMW K100RS

It increases my paranoia
Like lookin' at my mirror and seein' a police car
    

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K-BIKE

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Good to have you with us and good on you for regular riding in all weathers.
Regards,
K-BIKE

    

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