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Don't want to admit that I'm getting older but I can barely swing my right leg over my '04 K1100LT ABS because it is very tall. I would normally step up & put my left foot on the left foot peg, st ...

Silly me, I did a search on this board for; vent hose, tank vent, etc and I should have done a search for "accumulator". No wonder I didn't find anything. Anyhow, thanks for your help guys & ...

Thanks, Inge K.
Looks like I did a search on the wrong board. I was just looking for a leak and don’t mind the occasional smell and it doesn’t smell up the garage like a very small leak would. I ...

I smell fuel from time to time on my, new to me, ’94 K1100LT with 22k mi on it. I raised the tank and ran it and no sign of a leak. What I did find was a tank vent hose that wasn’t connected. From ...

It wasn’t a major PITA but for an old guy it wasn’t easy and here it is. My ’04 Kll00LT ABS has a Metzeler ME88 Marathon 130/90B17 rear tire that has maybe 5,000mi on it and its circumference is ...

The battery was dead in my '97 K1100LT. It wouldn't take a charge from my battery tender or Schumaker charger <SNIP>
Thanks, Steve

Yep Steve, It's been my experience that a "smart charg ...

You can try also http://www.mcmaster.com/#o-rings/=jzs2g7 and they have all kinds and O ring material to make your own. I have made carb float bowl rings using the cheapest crazy glue-Caution, it glue ...

A+ on lots of rim protectors and try the 24" Tire Irons for $4.99-Man Size

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=tire%20irons

I mounted 2 for my S3T Buell and one for friends ...

The reason I did ask about the brake lever adjustement, if it`s not properly adjusted....it won`t return fully, and open the switch.
Have never heard/seen that it have been neeeded to bend the switch ...

I just found out that if either brake switch is stuck on, then after start up and rear lamp is O K and applying only the other working brake (switch), the brake warning lamp will go out.
Then your ...

Can anyone enlighten me on the diagnostic function of the brake warning lamp.
Are th electronics clever enough to tell me the front brake light switch has failed? Rear brake light still operates fine ...

It is a relay that sets to on once the computer finds that the bike is over a certain speed threshold and everything is fine, then the blinking lights goes off. If there is a problem, both light blin ...

I'm new to BMW & I didn't know what the "clunk" was but though it was just the pads resetting from backing out of the garage. I've done a search & didn't find any info on proper ABS ...

Thanks for the tip about handlebar hoses, who would have thought my missing hoses are the reason why the bars move up & down so much. Didn't bother me before but now it bothers me so I have ordere ...

Yep my seat latch was broken & wouldn’t latch. I could look down into the latch and there was no hook to latch on to the post (with a hole in it) attached to the bottom of the seat. The key work ...

My new (to me) '94 K1100LT ABS needs a touch up and there’s no color code sticker that I can find. Here's a pix
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Tyronewildman/RightRear.jpg
Looks like Color ...

Help-see my post for help below Question

mtnroads
Check out Pg #638 Clymer Manual. Remove the piston stop screw and the piston will slide right out. You can see this small screw from the left side of the bike as it is under the reservoir. T ...

My (new to me) ’94 K1100LT only came to me with a folding key and no key code. I checked out
http://www.stephenbottcher.net/BMW/keys.htm
and believe that I now have my key code. If I did it correc ...

O K, thanks for the tips & I've fixed almost all the problems (I knew about) on my new to me, '94 1100LT ABS & it's on the road now. Light warning and ABS warning was on. In the 2 years it had ...