Modded R100 eBay

eBay item 4592088932

It's rather a pity the seller has started this auction £400 above what I
reckon it's worth because they actually make a very nice little
streetfighter type bike. I like the look of it a lot and it has the
right bits other than the 36mm carbs, easily changed.

Kinda hope it doesn't sell and he comes back with a more sensible
reserve.

Handily placed for the London crew if someone like WC thinks it's worth
1200 though.

'Hog

 

Er, Hog, I hope the above ending to your message doesn't mean you've got
a virus.....

 

message

Umm I think stupidity! shall check.
Did you see my post about GS500's in the other place? known weaknesses
etc? and do you think the value was good to fair.

'Hog

 

Umph. If I was going to have something like that[1], I would want
twin-plugged 40mm heads, Del'Ortos, a 336 cam, Dyna coils, Boyer-Bransden
ignition, Progressive fork springs, cast iron discs and a /7 seat with a
chrome hitching rail.

[1]and I am, eventually.

 

As you should!

Bwahahahahahaha pathetic fuckers! note the RS at the end of the
stocklist
http://dealerservices.autotrader.co.uk/GetDealer.do?did=21945&pageid=1

'Hog

 

I thought it was a fair price. Looked like a nice bike. The GS500 is
horribly dated, but it's really sound - the engine is bomb proof. The
real problem is the finish, which is appalling.

 

Tee hee. This nicely illustrates the central flaw of Marxism: the notion
that the value of something is a function of the labour required to produce
it.

And that gold is the suckiest of colours.

 

Indeed. Five grand? What a laugh.

 

I'd want crash bars for that price...

.... and a respray,

and probably a different bike.


Regards,

Simonm.
(still like the SOB R80RT)

 

Like, one of these?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-Krauser-1...oryZ9915QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Needs a paintjob.....
--

Cheers!
Fr Jack
90 CB450DX (The Moped)
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
skype: fr.jack (without the dot)
We'll open up your eyes,
just to check that you're asleep, again

 

Mmmmm....

Regards,

Simonm.

 

With a decent paintjob, it would look fairly smart.

 

First I thought:

You utter Utter UTTER ****.
I hadn't seen that, I wouldn't have seen that, now I have seen that and
I want it.
******

Then I noticed it's not running Krauser 4 valve heads which dampened my
enthusiasm some.

I passed on a pair of Krauser heads at a fair price a couple of years
ago and have regretted it since. Nice though that bike is, bar the
paint, a Mono RS with the 'heads would suit me better.

'Hog

 

Black, with subtle metalflake, and discreet gold coachlines...... anna
feckin loud zorst! ;-)
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
90 CB450DX (The Moped)
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
skype: fr.jack (without the dot)
We'll open up your eyes,
just to check that you're asleep, again

 

I saw a pair of Krauser heads advertised when I had my R100RS. Pre-Ebay
days, and (IIRC) in the region of £400. Wish I'd bought them.

Rumour has it that development of the heads, and the MKM1000, was what
bankrupted the company.

 

I've got the 336 cam and the Ultimate Source top clamp on my long-term
lookout list.

 

Don't get me wrong; I like the old boxers, but that's like putting
lipstick, Dior and Manolo Blahniks on a pig.

Pity the designer didn't take a step back and see just what he'd
created.

 

I'm only teasing Hog.

The frame was made to an astonishing level of accuracy, IIRC by MBB, out of
56 tubes welded together in a lattice. Handling is apparently precise but
old-fashioned.

It strikes me as the sort of bike you could respect without being
particularly fond of it.

Yeah, that paint job looks like shit.

 

platypus said...

By ****!

That mings.