Hi Everyone,
I bought my first K Bike in 1997, a 1990 K75RT, on advice of Dan Patzer, who was helping me with my 4wheel BMWs at the time.
In 2001 I crashed it, fairly low speed low side, insurance totalled it.
Bought a 1985 K100LT, thought I'd like more power. Enjoyed the extra power, but the vibes didn't jibe with me.
Had a fun year long adventure with the starter on that one, Don Ellenberger helped me figure out the issue by going back to basic physics. After tearing the whole bike apart, installing new sprag, and lots of other "while I'm in there" bits, the fix took 20 minutes.
In 2003 I found a K75RT for sale with only 40k miles on it, test rode it, bought it.
Sadly I've hardly put any miles on it since we moved to West Seattle and I stopped commuting by the Ferry.
I've got a long commute again, so I'm getting it fixed up and back on the road.
I've found lots of great advice on this site already, so thanks to the admins for a well run site.
I founded and have run
http://www.unofficialbmw.com since about 1999, so I know how much work can go into running a site.
My site is mostly for E30s and E36s (80s and 90s cages), so not that relevant here.
Glad to be here and look forward to chatting about our favorite bikes, the brick.
Dale
