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Since you guys are posting some very nice photos of your K100 RSes, here's my first and always BMW, a 1990 K75S in Titan Blue. It has 86,000 miles on it, most have which have been seamless. But it hasn't been bulletproof. Several years ago I was tooling up the NJ Turnpike on a Sunday afternoon in July, heading for Maine from NC, when a bearing on the jackshaft that drives the alternator gave way. Lunched the bottom end of the motor. But I bought a used motor and got the bottom half of that mated with my top end.
This bike has had a couple of incarnations also. About three years ago I decided I wanted to put a sidecar on it. Got a Champion sidecar out of California, and the whole rig looked great. But I did not put a leading link fork on it, and it was a struggle to drive: got headshake every time I took one hand off the bars. Plus nobody except my dogs wanted to ride in the car, so I took it off after one summer. I sold it back to the guy who had mounted it for me. The whole works had cost $5800, including a paintjob, and I got $3000 when I sold it. So I guess I have a $2800 paintjob.
Since then, to atone for the sidecar, I've tarted her up a bit, with a new shock, stickier tires, and the luftmeister pipe. She's ready for the next 86,000.
This bike has had a couple of incarnations also. About three years ago I decided I wanted to put a sidecar on it. Got a Champion sidecar out of California, and the whole rig looked great. But I did not put a leading link fork on it, and it was a struggle to drive: got headshake every time I took one hand off the bars. Plus nobody except my dogs wanted to ride in the car, so I took it off after one summer. I sold it back to the guy who had mounted it for me. The whole works had cost $5800, including a paintjob, and I got $3000 when I sold it. So I guess I have a $2800 paintjob.
Since then, to atone for the sidecar, I've tarted her up a bit, with a new shock, stickier tires, and the luftmeister pipe. She's ready for the next 86,000.
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