Hi, I read the "Read this before posting" sticky thread, but both links 403 error for me, so iunno what I'm missing there. :dunno2:
I'm going to become the owner of a 1988 K75c tomorrow, my birthday gift to myself! Much excited, so wow. Reading around the intro threads at the top, my age seems to be important here for some reason, so I just turned 31. My first bike was a Moto Guzzi V7 Stone 2--fun and beautiful but under powered and anemic in every way. Next was the KTM 990 SMT, sort of a dimensional step up in basically every sense--fun and insane at the same time, but too much bike in every sense as well. Sold that in August of last year. Here I am bikeless now, and the season is burgeoning. Originally wanted a more modern Italian bike, but once I learned of the K75, I was sold on it. Plus this completes my pattern of ascending the Axis powers theme.
Right now I'm looking to heavily customize this thing. This may be unpopular to divulge, but I'd like to achieve a tasteful cafe/scrambler aesthetic, and I admit that google-image searching for "K75 scrambler/cafe racer" was enough to make me drool and push me over the edge towards getting this bike. I'll be looking for maintenance and repair advice, and where people go to get their custom parts for said customizations. I also have a little bit of a fabricator streak in me, so I'd like to ask people some more esoteric stuff down the line, like "how strong does this weld have to be?" or what certain tolerances and clearances are, etc...
Anyway, super long intro over, looking forward to interacting with y'all.