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** SPOILERS!** Random Motorcycle thoughts unworthy of a new thread

Cycle News just dropped some old skool cool. The cover of 1973 featuring the King of Cool.

I have hella tshirts but this one might need to be added.

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The McQueen

The McQueen Celebrate two icons at once: the King of Cool and the king of motorcycle news. This tee features the February 13, 1973 cover of Cycle News with Steve McQueen front and center, frozen in time at the height of his riding and movie star legend.The funky Cycle News Logo across the top...
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It finally happened to me... $750 bike.

I just finished rebuilding my DR350 (total overhaul), have been riding it for the last month, and was not intending on buying anything else. Well.. here comes a '99 R1100GS with 40k miles from a guy who was going into assisted living. Friend of a friend type deal... It had been a little neglected and not registered for a decade - he had other bikes to ride. I spent the last week doing a lot of remedial maintenance. Fluids, valves check, battery, whole new fuel pump / assembly / lines, new tires (holy crap street tires have gotten expensive), and so on.

Starting her up tonight - wish me luck. Hoping the injectors aren't gummed over but I guess we'll find out. Still need to do the hall effect sensor but we'll see what happens.

I guess I own a BMW now. Ugh.
 

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Fingers crossed on the startup....$750? Mad love for you and the GS! What a find!!!
 
Well, I've got at least that much back in it already - probably a little more. Don't want to look at the receipts :bigbarf

Edit: Looked at the receipts. $975 in parts so far.

Edit 2: I want to complain again about tire pricing, holy shit. Last time I bought street tires for my VFR800 was probably 10 years ago? I've bought a lot of dirt tires in the meantime, but even so... I remember fronts for $90 and rears for $120 for typical sport rubber. Set of Anakee Adventures for this thing was $~350 and that was with a $50 rebate. A lot of the other 'Adventure' style rubber or sportbike rubber is like $180-200 for a front and $250-300 for a rear. WTF???
 
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Nice :thumbup

And yeah... tires are pretty expensive these days, but it seems to me they have not gone up a lot in the last 4 years.. maybe I am laming out on that?
 
Still surprised that it worked; my SO would have been pissed if I kept taking up her parking spot in the garage :laughing

Took a couple cranks to come to life but once it did, she's a smooth runner. Tell you what, though.. full of gas, this is a heavy bike to push around. A-OK once underway but yea - she's chunky. The bend on these stock bars is a bit weird; I'd love to change to something else but from what I understand, that's not as straightforward given that BMW of course had to do things differently and didn't utilize 7/8ths controls like the rest of the sane motorcycling world. Whatever - we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Still a couple things to do. Some of the hand controls / electrics are sticking and I suspect could use a good cleaning. I also need to throw the stock skidpan back on. I'll keep testing it in the local area and then we'll see about taking a longer ride this weekend or the next.

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Lodi Cycle Bowl. History made with 100cc bikes.
A lot of well known riders. Features Chris Carr.

Forgot all about that Jerry Bernardo dude. He was decently fun.



You will dig the Kenny Roberts American Flat Track day in Barcelona too. KR, Springsteen, Filice and more.
 
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GS doing GS things - I can see why people like these bikes... Feels quite competent rolling down gravel roads like these and equally good at eating miles at a reasonable speed. Pretty good pull up to sane speeds.

I think I've got an issue with the starter; a little slow to start and didn't want to turn over at one point. Acted like a dead battery... but the battery is a brand new Yuasa. Apparently the Valeo brand starters in these early R1100 bikes have magnets which detach from the housing and bind against the armature. Can either epoxy/JB Weld them back into place or just go aftermarket. I'll try to pull the starter housing off this weekend and verify.
 
I am sure some missed that Kenny Roczen won the Supercross Title today. A fantastic high in a storied career. 9 years ago he had a major arm injury and It took him several years to come back.

Super popular win among the fans and racers.
Beautiful family stuff too.

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