After selling my xj i felt good about getting rid of one project and decided to start selling off some other things i didnt really need. A month or two ago i sold my 83 honda cx650, which was a one year only US bike that has a motoguzzi style v-twin, shaft drive and is water cooled. The bike was sort of cool but was so ugly and needed so changing for me to not feel completely gay riding it.
I also had a 1981 yamaha xs650 that had a pre-USD gsxr fork conversion, custom spoked wheels by woodys, custom tank that i stretched and added knee cutouts to, and was in the process of doing a monoshock conversion to. My friend chris sold a couple of his projects and talked me into selling him my bike so he could finish it because i was taking too long haha.
I had planned on waiting till next spring and saving up enough cash to go out and buy a new bike after researching/riding a bunch of different models and settling on exactly what i wanted. But i started realizing i would never be happy for long on a bone stock bike and with a sock droor full of cash i started browsing craigslist in my spare time.
A couple weeks ago i went and looked at a k100 and ended up buying it! The good thing is i talked the PO down on the price and was able to buy it and still have some $$ left over from selling my other bikes. Here it is at sloans lake the night i bought it.
If you dont know anything about k100s....its a bmw with a fuel injected 1000cc motor that is pretty much a bmw 4cyl car motor on its side. It has a single sided swingarm, monoshock, and is shaft driven. Pretty far ahead of most other bikes being produced in the 80s!
Ive been riding it for about 3 weeks now and its a really fun bike to ride, ive found a few of its shortcomings that i hope to improve upon over the next few months and over the winter months for some of the bigger projects. I changed out the beach cruiser bars this week for some daytona style bars that let me stretch my long ass arms out a little more, and taken off a few little things here and there.