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K75RT stuff

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R75rider

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Hmmm, I just agreed to buy a 85 or 86 (not sure) K100 from a friend that runs a local bike garage and it has a noticable hissing noise too. I asked him about it and he said "that's just the way it sounds". hahaha, I'm not so sure he knows that to be a fact but the bike ran good for what little bit I rode it. I thought maybe I was just hearing the carbs sucking air (assuming it even has carbs, I didn't look). Anyway it's got 60k miles and looks great, it's all black and the electric windshield impressed me. :)
 
Randy,
The fuel pump is a roller pump and the noise it makes is sort of a hissing noise too. I'm guessing you agreed to buy a K1100 if it has the electric windscreen....unless he added it. It was not available until 1993 on the first K1100LT's.
You need to go to www.ibmwr.org and learn all about K-Bikes. No carbs since 1985 in the states.

Mick
 
Hey thanks for the info. The bike said K100 on the rear fender. The prior owner must have added the electric windshield then. It also had full fairing and at least 8 switches built into that, bmw saddlebags, yellow choke light that worked, digital gear position indicator, and a strange looking muffler... triangle shape I think it was. I'm not having any luck finding a picture that looks like it.

Randy
 
K75RT

Triangle shaped muffler.

I don't recall the shape of the muffler on my K100, and unfortunately, don't have a picture of it in digital format.
 

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That picture looks like it, add bags and paint it black. Except for the kickstand, that's different. So did any K100's come with this configuration or did the former owner just do a lot of reconfiguring?

ps: I'm not trying to hijack this thread, really!
 
R75rider said:
That picture looks like it, add bags and paint it black. Except for the kickstand, that's different. So did any K100's come with this configuration or did the former owner just do a lot of reconfiguring?

ps: I'm not trying to hijack this thread, really!
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The K100's had a square muffler, and the K75's had a triangle muffler to represent the three cylinders. Some newer K75 and K100 RT's had an electric windshields and it is comon to see older ones with a retrofitted set up.

Jim :brow
 
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