Flying Brick?????

[donscoin]

Being a newbee not only to motorcycling (one year), but being a newbeeeee to K1200LTs (three weeks), I was wondering about the term BRICK and then the phrase "Flying Brick". I can almost understand the "flying" but don't understand "brick". Bricks are square and clunky. Not my K, it is a flyer. Please enlighten me.. Thanks. Don

 

[Bud]

Being a newbee not only to motorcycling (one year), but being a newbeeeee to K1200LTs (three weeks), I was wondering about the term BRICK and then the phrase "Flying Brick". I can almost understand the "flying" but don't understand "brick". Bricks are square and clunky. Not my K, it is a flyer. Please enlighten me.. Thanks. Don

Flat four. Not a boxer. Engine is a brick, not the bike.

 

[breyfogle]

The engine block is square, heavy and "reliable as a ...." and when they were first were introduced, K bike seemed fast enough (for a BMW) to fly.

 

[OfficerImpersonator]

Being a newbee not only to motorcycling (one year), but being a newbeeeee to K1200LTs (three weeks), I was wondering about the term BRICK and then the phrase "Flying Brick". I can almost understand the "flying" but don't understand "brick". Bricks are square and clunky. Not my K, it is a flyer. Please enlighten me.. Thanks. Don

My understanding of the "Flying Brick" nickname is that it does indeed generally describe the appearance of the rectangular engine slung beneath the frame/rider on the early unfaired (or barely faired) K100/K75, but that the term now applies to all K-bikes.

 

[37071]

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The fastest rider I have ever seen on the road was on a K 75. It was during the 1998 National in Missoula, and he was headed the other way, east bound out of the Lolo Pass, going through a corner at what looked like Superbike speed.

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One of the possibilities is that you had a Sue Galpin sighting.