hot legs

[BUDDINGGEEZER]

Knee guard removal

The black plastic strips are knee guards. If you remove them almost all the engine heat will be directed onto the rider.

BMW has a heat kit that is suppose to seal the tank and fairing sides to keep the heat from penetrating the knee guards and direct the heat through the lower fairing lovers.

These are hot bikes. August in Arkansas has been 100+ most days, it was only 98 yesterday. I can't ride mine that hot, but 100 is too hot to ride any bike comfortable, in my opinion.

Ralph Sims

 

[ziegelreiter]

The airbox eliminator worked great on my 75S and on a friends early 85 100RT.

Gilly

.I know how it ends. He gets shot down by the Red Baron, which happens to be the name of my K75, Baron Manfred von Bricktofen. .
By the way, if you ever get out to Sonoma Co. Ca., they've put about a hundred Snoopy's and other peanuts characters all over the place, and they're about 4' high. Charles Shultz wasn't from Sonoma Co., but it's where he called home.

 

[Texfire]

I appreciate all the help. With the instructions from wndsrfr I removed the lower fairing from my bike. It made all the difference. I used zipties to secure the fairing around the radiator and to pull the upper fairing towards the motor to keep it from flopping. It's worked very well, I'm going to hold off on fabbing something to permanently attach the upper fairing to the engine mount since the ziptie is holding it very snugly. If this becomes a permanent mod I'll probably make a mount out of tubing or conduit.

Tex

 

[PGlaves]

Anyone else have hot legs? I'm new to BMWs ...

My wife does - but she rides an R1100S






sorry ... I couldn't help myself. I'll go to the corner now

 

[scootrp125x]

Anyone else have hot legs? I'm new to BMWs having had Japaneses bikes most of my life. I now own a 1985 K100RT! This bike must feel great in the winter but I'm in Savannah, GA where it's in the 90s everyday and the heat around my knees is really hot. It looks as if one of the many previous owners had mounted some type of air foil at the edge of the fairing to pull cool air back towards the knees. Is there maybe something else I can do? Or some way to block the hot air?

thanks, sam.

Check out the HOT HOT HOT post for more info.