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I've seen the 85 K100 refered to as the "FYK" or Finest year K. Is it really that good? Why?
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Tarren Shaw said:I've seen the 85 K100 refered to as the "FYK" or Finest year K. Is it really that good? Why?
the older I get the faster I used to bemechanic savant said:I don't know about others but...got my 85 k new 6/85 rode the wheels off it or at least tried to,did mostly all my own maintanance & had a trouble free,except for a speedo,affair w/ my silver mistress for 16 yrs & about 150k mi. Then I met a sluty little R1150r.and ya know how the story goes..I still see my ex now & then she seems happy in her new relationship & I'm still geting to know my new"date" but I wouldn't mind dancin w/the old gal again...contrary to myth the silver ones are fastest!!!
KBasa said:That's pretty funny. The 1985 K100s, were, in a lot of ways, their own bike. They have a different seat and tail cone combo along with some other differences, one of which is different cams. I think..
Anyway, Don Eilenberger had one and dubbed it the FYK quite a long time ago. Looks like the name stuck.
Dave is absolutely correct. The story is kinda funny.
I was asked to give a K-tech session at the RA National Rally in Greenfield MA some years ago. (Dave was Chair of that rally..)
At the time, I owned an '85 K100RT, and was somewhat defensive about the scorn heaped upon the '85's by owners of later K's.
During the tech session, several people made somewhat disparaging remarks about the '85 K.. and finally in response to one of the remarks I sarcastically said "Oh - you mean the FINEST YEAR K?"
It got rather a large laugh and I thought that would be the end of it.. but I started referring to my K as the FYK100RT in messages to the IBMWR mailing list.
The name stuck. I started seeing it used in ad's for '85 K bikes, it started appearing in people's SIGs on messages, and questions like this started popping up - "Why is the '85 the Finest Year K?" I've even seen it used in articles in a certain national club magazine
As Paul Harvey would say - now you know the rest of the story..
Oh - the '85 K100's had one advantage over later K100's (until the 4V engine) - they were the "fastest" ones. They had a euro intake cam (except in California) that gave a real 90HP. Starting in '86 all K100's received the California intake cam that gave about 5 less HP - but BMW never changed the specifications.
There were some features that BMW did improve with later K100's - heat management was generally better (but still awful on an RT) and buzz/vibration was reduced a bit... but the '85 bikes were a real bargain since you could usually find one for $1,000 or more cheaper than the same bike as an '86. This changed as the FYK rumor spread
Best,
Hi Don,
You don't happen to remember the part number for the Euro cams? I have an '84 head that has the same cams as my '88 head...thought I was getting the euro cams with the earlier head.
Greg
A high percentage of the '85s imported had the California cams. The easiest way to ID them-assuming you could find an unmolested example-would be to check the emmisions label under the seat; if it has the hotter cams, it will say 49-States on it.
It is probably possible to ID them via a code on the cams. I don't recall them having part numbers on them.
I've seen the 85 K100 refered to as the "FYK" or Finest year K. Is it really that good? Why?