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Flying Duck
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:27 am Post subject: My "new to me" K1 |
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Upgraded rear lighting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGEJi6NnB4w
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roadscum
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Congrats on the new ride, that sure is purdy.. 
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Ted
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Kicking self for not bidding 
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dwerbil
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice, and quite a trick looking brake/tail light conversion.
How was your trip home on the beast? Feel a bit different with powerband, handling, etc?
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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I actually ended up flying home. Plan to go back down next week and ride it home up the coast about 4/18 or so... JO heads north on 4/17 so a week from Saturday we have plans to ride. Yeehaw....
I've had a couple of K100RS4Vs so I'm used to the powerband BUT the weird thing is that K1s have a 33:12(2.75) final drive gear ratio so it doesn't have a lot of torque. It's like riding a K75. There isn't a lot of roll-on power at 60mph so I have to chop it down to third to make a decent pass. When I get it home the first thing I'm going to do is swap in an RS 31:11(2.82) final drive or probably even an LT 32:11(2.91) final drive to give it some more spunk. I'm even considering taking one back down there with me because riding the coast with more torque would be more fun.
I couldn't get the TBs synched because there's an air leak in one of the boots between the TBs and the head. (Pretty common for a 20 year old bike. I've helped two local guys with 90 K75RTs replace those boots recently.) It's only $80 to do all four of those new from Chicago BMW so I'll replace those with new ones when I get it home. In the interim I'll take some used ones down there with me from a 94 LT that I parted recently.
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86 custom K100
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supercat1
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Location: Hoboken, NJ
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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where did you get that trick tail light? i like very much.
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| supercat1 wrote: | | where did you get that trick tail light? i like very much. |
It's a DIY:
The LED license plate frame came from a rat bike that I parted out. It wasn't in the greatest shape so I repainted it with some black spray paint.
The LEDs in the side lenses are six LED waterproof truck marker lights for about $6/each on Fleabay. When you trim them down they just fit into the sides of the K rear lens.
Since the bulb monitoring unit on Ks doesn't like LED brake or tail light bulbs I just get rid of the BMU as follows:
Short the front brake switch wire(Gray/Red) and the rear brake switch wire(Gray/Green) to the Rear brake light(Gray/Yellow.)
Short the #2 fuse and parking light(Gray/White-2 wires) to the tail light wire(Gray/Black)
I bought the flasher unit on eBay for $20 shipped http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110652880968
I get the LED marker lights in the sides to "wag" with the brake light by adding a $1 normally closed 12V PCB (printed circuit board) relay.
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93 LT (x2)
94 RS
86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
Buy parts HERE
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Geoff
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Congrats on the new bike. Love the big BMW logo.
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supercat1
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Location: Hoboken, NJ
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| Flying Duck wrote: | | supercat1 wrote: | | where did you get that trick tail light? i like very much. |
It's a DIY:
The LED license plate frame came from a rat bike that I parted out. It wasn't in the greatest shape so I repainted it with some black spray paint.
The LEDs in the side lenses are six LED waterproof truck marker lights for about $6/each on Fleabay. When you trim them down they just fit into the sides of the K rear lens.
Since the bulb monitoring unit on Ks doesn't like LED brake or tail light bulbs I just get rid of the BMU as follows:
Short the front brake switch wire(Gray/Red) and the rear brake switch wire(Gray/Green) to the Rear brake light(Gray/Yellow.)
Short the #2 fuse and parking light(Gray/White-2 wires) to the tail light wire(Gray/Black)
I bought the flasher unit on eBay for $20 shipped http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=110652880968
I get the LED marker lights in the sides to "wag" with the brake light by adding a $1 normally closed 12V PCB (printed circuit board) relay. |
truncated urls are truncated.  just did a search on ebay using the item number at the end though, found it. could i just install the flasher to the stock light? not sure i am interested in digging that much in for the actual led replacement for the full tail light. and i could just add the side led's without having to do all the wire shorting right? sorry if the questions are basic, but i haven't done any of this before. i'll leave the alternating of main light and led's to another day.
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:55 am Post subject: |
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URL fixed.
I'm sure you could hook up the stock light. However, that listing doesn't give a watt or amp rating for the flasher. I wasn't worried about that since I'm using LEDs but it might a good idea to email the seller first to find out how much of a load it can handle.
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93 LT (x2)
94 RS
86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
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93 K11 RS
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:42 am Post subject: |
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| Geoff wrote: | | Congrats on the new bike. Love the big BMW logo. |
Ditto. BMW ought to pay dividends for this rolling advertisement! |
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m1ks
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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That's lovely, I like the black paint and logo, not seen one like that, I do like these.
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