THE ULTIMATE 1980's TOURING MACHINE // The Flying Brick // BMW K100
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- A truly great bike to come out of the 1980's.
Dave tell us about his pride & joy; his BMW K100.
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Dave Hedge - Himself
80s Dave - Ryan Mansfield
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Director - Dan Edser
Director of Photography - James Turnbull
Vehicle Tracking Cinematography - Joe Lawry
Addition Cinematography - Dan Edser
Assistant Camera - Ben Brewer
Vehicle Tracking Tech - Jon Drew
Editor/VFX/Sound - Dan Edser
Colourist - Luke Ross
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Thanks To:
Kiss Kiss Eatery
Graham Standring
BMW should not have dropped this range.
It had much more potential than the boxer.
Used 2 RTs for courier work great bikes
Great homage to a fantastic bike 👍 (I have a K1 and an R100RS that will stay with me forever👍)
Fantastic video - you put into words exactly what K riders experience
. Thank you
Ivm owned many BMW Kseries and Rseries beemers there built for touring doing big miles that will lope along at 100 mph all day every day if you keep up the maintenance they are most likely to last forever if you want to just ride around short distance buy something thats not heavy and reliable such as the VFR 750 or 800 the XJ900 a very good reasonably priced bulletproof bike i can name many more makes always test ride a touring bike such as the BMW Kseries before deciding the same bike only smaller and not a huge fairing K75S with the black wheels mag's is an absolute ripper to get the job done just not as big and fast but so much smoother and very very reliable motorcycle 🏍️ and doesn't blow smoke on the side stand vibration around 90kph better wheels if you can find a good sports K75S grab it you won't be disappointed believe me not the C model the S for sports so much better iv really owned them all ask me anything you want regarding all Kseries BMW bikes
Just got my first bike, a BMW k75, is a great machine, I find it easy to ride for a beginner, I just love it !
Love this bike. I own a K100 LT from 1989 and it’s nice to see it’s still thought of well
Cool video. I had the pleassure of driving my 1990 K1 from 1992 to 2015 including commuting from Norway to Germany for work. The reason I kept it so long was it took about so long time before I felt there was a better bike worth the upgrade. Now driving the near perfect tourer the 2021 R1250RT
Amazing video cant belive this doesnt have more views
1995 I was forced to buy a 1985 K100 RT. The former owner pleased me to buy his bike, because he couldn't drive it anymore. Before that I drove only Honda Bikes nearly changing them every year.So I sold my 3 years old Honda with 10k km to buy a 10 year old K100RT with 80k on the speedo for the same price. From that day, I had "my Bike"until today. After some years, I didn't drive it to much because of family, business and other reasons. But I will never sell this bike and I'm proud that now my childrens (both whent they passed 15Th Birthday) that they did her first kilometers, before any other bikes, with my K100RT. The Bike is very eay to handle with great potential. Was far ahead of its time.Hope that this bike will stay forever in my family.
So now, 7 month later. Times changed. I repared the Ignition coils. Now the bikes is driving smoth and fuel consumption is much more better.For professional reason I have to drive now once or twice 200km on German Autobahn. Last 6 weeks I did over 1200km with it without any problems.The BMW K100 RT does it just as a younger bike. But above 160km/h modern cars are just quicker. So I think to give to my childs an buying a 2004 K 1200 GT to drive quicker... But I never will give away my K100 RT!
I bought a 1992 K75RT last year. Best bike for commuting on freezing cold mornings
Not nice to show it in the dark
The K bikes are million mile bikes. Parts are getting hard. Fuel tank components not designed for todays fuels. But this upgrades are easy. Shaft splines prone to wear. So lube often with high moly grease.
I have a 1987 K75c , smaller version very smooth ride and ultra reliable, comfortable as you like 👍 I've had mine 15 years and enjoy it everytime I go out on it . Thanks for highlighting this bike . Great video. 👍
The K75's proportions look so much better than the bigger K100's do.
IV owned many BMW bike's including both the K 100RT the RS and the K75C and K75S the smoothest one out of the lot and with the best wheels and fairing is the K75S the K100LT with all the bells and whistles is also a very good long haul touring bike they can be expensive to maintain but like most bike's will keep going for many many years sitting on over 100 kph and faster they really are very very smooth and stable keeps you very dry in heavy rain the only vibration I felt was between 90 to 100kph a great bike in the 80s but expensive compared to the XJ900 Yamaha which is also a very reliable and bulletproof smooth bike of its time they made the 900 Yamaha diversion right through from 83 until the early 2000s I'm pretty sure obviously the beemers fairings were much better than what was on the XJ900 then you did pay for the privilege of owning a Kseries BMW limited edition
I've got two of them; an early '83 naked (110,508 miles as of today) and an '87 RT (only 67,000-odd miles). The naked has rotated through being an RS complete with the correct drive box, then it moved on to being an RT for a while and now it's an LT complete with electric windscreen from the K1100LT. I've had the '83 for fifteen years and put most of that mileage on it. The '87 I've only had for about four years and it's hardly been ridden, but in fairness it was given to me as the proverbial boxes of bits and took a while to do a ground-up rebuild (including new paint).
I bought mine at the beginning 1984 and it is chassis 0000249 and was the first sold in the UK. It is a solid lump but is does smoke off the side stand for two miles. I bought fairing part to make an RT out of it. But put it back to standard again, as it is too lumpy for me with the fairing and I do very few miles now. It will outlast me now and is now becoming classic so the tax requirement goes away, and it can go into the London ULEZ next year.😊
Most traded them back for an R100 rt/RS
Beautiful motorcycle
Why did you replace engine k-whine sound with boxers one?
I imagine recording clean sound in that scenario is quite challenging.