Hello from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[grosbeak]

Hi folks, and thanks for the add. I've just bought my first K-bike - a 1992 K75S. It joins my other paragon of reliability, a 1999 Suzuki Bandit 1200. I look forward to learning about this bike and wrenching on it. It's like nothing I've owned before.

[Past-my-Prime]

Hey and welcome! Great bike, you'll love it. . .

If by any chance you run across a colour matching fuel tank, and decide to get rid of the one you have, keep me in mind. My tank, same colour as yours, has a small dent. It irritates my desire for perfection, but not enough for me to spend huge buck$ to fix.

Now that you own a Brick, you'll see them everywhere! Actually while that does happen to me in regards to other purchases like my Toyota pickup truck, it has not happened with Bricks. buy your experience with that might differ.

There is a lot of assistance on this forum regarding maintenance and repair of your bike.

Volador, a long term member on this forum, has previously posted the following set of links, which I have copied and pasted for your potential use, I've found some of these links very helpful, and there's loads more if you look around:

Welcome GCarper

Very nice looking moto

Some links for your K journey. Hope you reach your distance goal!   

Just bought a 2V

Just bought a 4V

Check parts compatibility with BMW MAX Microfiche, BOBS BMW, REAL OEM

https://shop.maxbmw.com/fiche/PartsFiche.aspx

https://shop.maxbmw.com/fiche/PartsSearch.aspx

https://parts.maxbmw.com/BMW___BmwMotorradK.html

https://www.bobsbmw.com/store/microfiche/BrowseSeries.aspx

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/select.do?kind=M&arch=1

https://www.ascycles.com/BMW-Motorcycle-Parts-Fiche

Cross reference parts like Bosch pn#'s, etc....  http://partsplusecat.com/
No spaces in the part number

Parts Vendors

https://www.beemerboneyard.com/

https://www.capitalcycle.com/

https://www.euromotoelectrics.com/

https://www.tills.de/

Headlight relay stuff if you chose to add one

https://www.motobrick.com/index.php?topic=268.0

http://www.motobrick.com/index.php/topic,4962.msg30932.html

http://culayer.com/product/matchbox-headlight-relay/

http://easternbeaver.com/Main/Wiring_Kits/H4_Kits/h4_kits.html  Eastern Beaver site is a great reference for electrical connectors,plugs, etc...

http://www.k100-forum.com/

http://www.kforum-tech.com/Tech-page.html

http://www.kforum-tech.com/electrical/EFI/bike-wont-start-EN.htm

http://www.kforum-tech.com/Downloads/electrical/diagrams/interactive_diagrams.htm

http://www.kbikeparts.com/classickbikes.com/ckb.tech/0.ckb.tech.files/k100tshoot/K100.Troubleshoot.Start.2018.pdf

http://kbikeparts.com/index.htm

http://www.kbikeparts.com/classickbikes.com/ckb.tech/ckb.new2k.htm

http://www.kbikeparts.com/classickbikes.com/ckb.tech/ckb.tech.toc.htm

http://www.eilenberger.net/K75S/IgnitionSwitch/

http://www.verrill.com/moto/moto.shtml

this site has a lot of good info and breakdown pictures in the tech and tech resources sections for K1100 alot of the parts are on K75 & K100

http://www.k11og.org/forum/index.php?sid=2df953dde5715fd9001fbe69edec5ad0

https://ibmwr.org/index.php/k-bike-tech-articles/

This site has all kinds of technical specifications on all the BMW models    http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/mechanicalpages/kseriesmechanical.htm

http://largiader.com

http://bmwk10075abs1fix.web.fc2.com/index.html  Toshi ABS site

Hosa D5S-6 CAIG DeoxIT 5% Spray Contact Cleaner, 5 oz.

CAIG Laboratories D100L-25C Contact Cleaner Needle Dispenser

[grosbeak]

Hey and welcome! Great bike, you'll love it. . .

If by any chance you run across a colour matching fuel tank, and decide to get rid of the one you have, keep me in mind. My tank, same colour as yours, has a small dent. It irritates my desire for perfection, but not enough for me to spend huge buck$ to fix.

Now that you own a Brick, you'll see them everywhere! Actually while that does happen to me in regards to other purchases like my Toyota pickup truck, it has not happened with Bricks. buy your experience with that might differ.

There is a lot of assistance on this forum regarding maintenance and repair of your bike.

Volador, a long term member on this forum, has previously posted the following set of links, which I have copied and pasted for your potential use, I've found some of these links very helpful, and there's loads more if you look around:

Thanks for the welcome and the helpful links. My nature is such that I want to research the hell out of everything... I have a T-shirt that reads, HOLD ON WHILE I OVERTHINK THIS. So I have already found lots of stuff to read about and I will add this to my list! And I do like to do my own maintenance and repairs where possible.

[Chaos]

I'm sorta liking that red tank on a black bike.  Looks like the metallic red that was on my '87 that faded to orange.

[John Lang]

A few of us Ottawa Brickers are members of bmwmcottawa.ca. Have a look.

[grosbeak]

I'll check that out - thanks John!