Horn Upgrade...

JamesL · Post by **JamesL** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:28 pm

Finally got around to investing in a set of twin Fiamms, attached to this...

[img][img]http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w635/JamesL503/R100RS_zpsd41764aa.jpg[/img][/img]

It's averaged less than 100 miles a year for the last 10+ years, which we'll have to do something about

. Needs a good dig through plus a set of tyres (rear is a Roadrunner), and can't wait to hop aboard...

Sorry, just can't stop grinning...

James

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:03 pm

Cool .... I have the 800 cc version

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:11 am

when I was a lowly civil servant ( as opposed to a lowly wagon driver) I dreamt of a r 100rs - loved them to bits

JamesL · Post by **JamesL** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:52 am

Well I had one for 15 years and turned it in, but just couldn't get over it.

Steve, very smart! Do your panniers have locks? Mine seem not to!

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:14 am

JamesL wrote:Well I had one for 15 years and turned it in, but just couldn't get over it.

Steve, very smart! Do your panniers have locks? Mine seem not to!

Thanks James, yes the pannier locks work fine, although as they're the mid 80's design the keys are fiddly to get into the locks....

Originally the bike came into a Kawasaki dealership I was looking after with a mere 425 miles on it. The original owner was a plasterer, I think, who had pockets of cash in hand money he needed to get shut of. So where better than the local BMW dealer, Coombes of Guildford. His reasoning was BMW made fast cars so they must make fast motorbikes .... hmmm not so much in the mid 80's

So they tucked him up with the panniers, crashbars RS kit etc etc..... I'm a bit stunned they never foisted the heated grips too, perhaps they were out of stock at point of sale

So he turns up at his mates and they all fall about laughing a they've all got GPZ1000RX's, ZXR750's, Exups, GSXR's etc .... so he then comes to the Kawasaki centre looking to p/x it for the then new ZX10 .... he lost a bundle on it.

My uncle, had a gorgeous R90S in smoke grey but was looking for a change and I knew he'd test ridden an RS before and raved at how fantastic the fairing was. So a quick call resulted in him having it. He only had one arm, having lost the left arm in a mining accident when he was 21, so had to have his bikes converted so there was a small clutch lever actually on the twistgrip. His artificial arm would clip on the left bar. His mate did the conversion and also some neat model aircraft linkages to move control of the left switch gear to the right hand side.

Cancer took him a couple of years back.

The bike's now mine and still has low mileage, about 25000 miles or so if I recall. I've moved the clutch lever but left the little linkages and have gotten used to using them, in honour of my uncle Les. A fantastic, inspirational guy and one that I could only just keep up with most of the time, even though he only had one arm he was one hell of a fast rider!!!

This was my Uncles other bike, that he had all of my life. Sadly it got sold via Bonhams and I believe it went off to Australia

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:39 am

I have got to admit that i have a soft spot for the airheads
Even today if i was planning a round the world trip it would be on a R100RS

Both of your bikes look great to me

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:25 am

Steve, the R90S was what started my love of BMWs - there was a smoke grey one on the cover of Motorcycle Mechanics when I was a kid and I just thought it looked fantastic (see, I was weird as a kid as well!!!!)

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:28 am

dave the german wrote:Steve, the R90S was what started my love of BMWs - there was a smoke grey one on the cover of Motorcycle Mechanics when I was a kid and I just thought it looked fantastic (see, I was weird as a kid as well!!!!)

I know the orange one appears more popular for some reason but I prefer the smoke grey, just seems classier.

He had his the same time as I had my Z1R, they were well matched performance wise. Although I guess his had the slight edge weight and handling wise

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:52 pm

slparry wrote:

Ooooh, makes me want to rush out and find one for sale.

boxerboy2 · Post by **boxerboy2** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:33 pm

why did you feel the need to get naked on 11-11-12?

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Fri May 03, 2013 7:45 pm

My brother-in-law had a similar bike and I did many many miles riding pillion. Happy Days.

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Fri May 03, 2013 8:03 pm

dave the german wrote:Steve, the R90S was what started my love of BMWs - there was a smoke grey one on the cover of Motorcycle Mechanics when I was a kid and I just thought it looked fantastic (see, I was weird as a kid as well!!!!)

PS this was my uncles

along with a lot younger, slimmer me and my Z1R circa 1981 I guess

boxerboy2 · Post by **boxerboy2** » Fri May 03, 2013 8:40 pm

el-nicko wrote:My brother-in-law had a similar bike and I did many many miles riding pillion. Happy Days.

Nice Mk2 Z1R. Mine was KGS678V.......one that I should not have sold, even though it handled like a pig on the twisties.

Still can't understand why people in their 70s need to post selfies of themselves..........

strange and very very disturbing.

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Sat May 04, 2013 5:37 pm

Guy I knew had a R100CS with a little cockpit fairing - loved that too - he then converted it to an RS

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Sat May 04, 2013 5:42 pm

dave the german wrote:Guy I knew had a R100CS with a little cockpit fairing - loved that too - he then converted it to an RS

I've been wondering whether to take the RS fairing off mine and put the cockpit fairing on and shove the RS fairing in the attic