K11 Owners Group

Flying Duck · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:40 pm Post subject: 25k LT on CL

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/1709138543.html
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Ted · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject:

Looks like someone will get a great deal on that one - all the extras, excellent price and it looks like a very motivated seller.
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ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:23 pm Post subject:

Getting stupid in my old age, but...

My Sun Cove friends have designed an 8-day ride through Western Canada. My base plan would be to tow either the K12 or the K75 up there behind the F150 (my SO now prefers to ride trail on four wheels--has something to do with the number of times I've dropped the K!2 or, as I prefer to see it, about how she can have her Starbucks and XM radio all to herself).

I'm checking with my friends to determine how it would work to obtain this bike and then just drive up (in Felicity's Del Sol, her four-wheeled motorcycle) and travel that way. What we'd do with the K11 would depend on other things, but I've been frugal all my life and just having received my Medicare ID, I have to rethink the space I have to do things in the future.

As I understand it, the 1997 K11 is basically the same motorcycle as my previous 1996 K11LT, minus the heavier side cases and the top case and radio. Are there any other differences?
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

Scott_Anderson · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject:

Thanks: I figure if J.O. can scatter bikes across the country, so could I. t doesn't appear that this has a top-case, just a tank bag. I've contacted the seller--as well as my friends in WA who have to support me.

The Canada trip is planned for this summer, so we've got some time.

Thanks again.
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

Flying Duck · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:14 pm Post subject:

If you get serious about it, I'd be willing to go check it out for you for a little beer money. Very Happy

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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

ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject:

Senile as I am, I'm also serious. Haven't heard back from the seller--I asked for a little more info on service history and tires, etc--and I haven't heard back from my Sea Cove friends. The SO is enthusiastic.

I do truly appreciate the offer and will stay in touch. Where is Langley?

Thanks.
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

Flying Duck · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:28 pm Post subject:

ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:32 pm Post subject:

Duck:

Thanks. Sent you a PM.
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:55 pm Post subject:

This is getting interesting: if things work out, I can be the K-bike king of El Paso, displacing Phil (maybe, depending on how you count: he's now got the K100 he picked up and all those K75's). Razz

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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

mnb · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:45 pm Post subject:

That bike looks sweet. Appears to be in great condition.

I've been real tempted to find a way to get the occasional K11RS SEs that pop up here. A black and silver RS to match my black and silver LT would be a nice pair...
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2003 Husqvarna TE610e
2007 Harley Davidson Road King
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2011 Husqvarna TE310
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miKeinWIs · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject:

Hey, 95% of the battle is won:
"the SO is enthusiastic"
What more do you need??
Mike
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'97 K1100LT
Bought 6/30/09 w/26,750 miles

ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:40 pm Post subject:

What I need is a body that is not rapidly degenerating.

But as long as I've got your attention, I can engage my fantasies further and presuming that I get this bike, then I'll have to decide whether to leave it, after this summer's ride, in Washington or somehow move it over to Wisconsin (where I was raised and where I still have family).

Towed the K12 up there last summer and did some great rides along the Mississippi coulees (if you make allowance for the horse-droppings at the apex of some curves up in those hills) and would like to do that again.

But you have no idea how grateful I am for the SO's acceptance, (she'd still ride postillion of that is what it took) and so you're right: that's all that matters.
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

Phil Marvin · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:51 pm Post subject:

Hi, Larry,
I have a topcase (wrong color for the red '97 K1100LT) and the mount/rack/whatever you want to call it. If you might be interested, let me know. I'm in El Paso until Wed., then back to Morenci. You have my cell phone number; it's my only mode of electronic communication in Morenci.
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Ride Safe,
Phil Marvin in El Paso, TX
'94 K75A/3
'95 K75RTP

ljjohns · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject:

I'll call.
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

ljjohns · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject:

Update:

Drake's checked out the bike and I haven't abandoned the concept.

Given my history of dropping the K12LT, however, I did have a question. This 1997 bike does not have engine guards (as well as not having a lot of the other small stuff my 96 LT had). I can live without the other stuff; I was simply wondering if the 97's had the guards as standard, or did they also get dropped as BMW stripped the K11 in preparation for the K12?

(And if anyone makes any jokes about why I'm not concerned about the lack of stock training wheels when I obviously should be, "anathama sit," as we say in pre-modern studies Laughing

)
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1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
1991 K75RT

Scott_Anderson · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:04 am Post subject:

Yes they were stripped off as "standard".

I'm thinking like you, they stripped down the '97 to try and sell them off before the 1200 were released.

I think you will only be able to find the guards used. Keep an eye out on IBMWR, or e-bay, or check with some of the parts yards.

Max lists them yet, but Motobins does not list them new for the 16v K anymore.
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mtnroads · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:27 am Post subject:

That's a very clean bike - I wouldn't wait long or someone else might pick it up. the only other comment I would make is to make sure it hasn't sat for too long or all kinds of things can go wrong. Good luck, sounds like a great plan.
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mnb · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:08 am Post subject:

They came standard on the '97 Special Edition. At least they came standard on mine...
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1997 BMW K1100LT ABS Special Edition
2003 Husqvarna TE610e
2007 Harley Davidson Road King
2009 BMW F800GS
2011 Husqvarna TE310
2014 Ducati Multistrada Pikes Peak MNB Edition

Flying Duck · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:37 pm Post subject:

I went and looked at on Wednesday and filed a scouting report with ltjohns.

It's a VERY stripped bike. I checked the parts catalog and there's an OEM plug for the upper hole in the fairing lower so I think it came out of the factory without engine protection bars. Also no radio, no heated grips. Not even amber side reflectors on the front fender.

It's been dropped, repaired and repainted. (His son dropped it on the right side and then forgot to put the side stand out before righting it so it then ended up on it's left side. Shocked

) Although whoever fixed it did a nice job of removing scratches on the mirrors and fairing and it's a pretty good repaint, he was a tad color blind because the main fairing and lowers are now more of a Mystic Pink than a Mystic Red and don't quite match the rest of the bike.

Also, the ABS is faulted. I tried a couple of quick resets grounding the diagnostic plug with the switch but no joy so the ABS may or may not be tits up.

Runs, rides, brakes and shifts well though.

Given the above I'd say the asking price in on the high side.
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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