PhillWard
Jan 15th, 2006, 6:26 pm
Beryl Beemer is a '99 vintage 132,500kms old K12LT.
Up until yesterday morning, still fitted with original suspenders, which made travelling on the Sydney roads extremely "painful" at the very least.
It also introduced a mandatory amount of conservatism in riding, just to ensure that:
a) you stayed on the bike,
b) you managed to get around the corner
In the last month or two a noticeable "wallow" had appeared when trying to negotiate sweeping corners, which brought back memories of my 1960 650cc Triumph Tiger 110, complete with "bathtub" fairing.
Enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I deserve a better life than this.................
Phone Sydney "Motohansa" for a price for a rear shock, BMW and Ohlin. $1,050 and $1,250 respectively.
Phone Sydney BMW dealer I normal get parts from "Procycles", $950 for the BMW one, ex Melbourne, shows as 1 in stock, but need payment before ordering.
Perhaps the BMW dealer in Melbourne can give my old mate Ian "Onions" a better price????? worth a shot I thought........
ring ring......ring ring......ring ring.......
Now here's a weird bit of "ooooohhhhhhhh"
Ian says he has a spare rear shock for a K12 in the cupboard behind his office desk as we speak.
"huh"?????????
Ian had bought the shock from Ebay, following an advert from a guy who had converted his K12 into a trike.......thinking that this lump of spring and stuff may come in handy one day.....
Perfect.
A price agreed upon, Ian packaged the unit up and sent up to Sydney a couple of days later only $11:56 or such like postage.
The unit arrived Friday, Saturday is a wipe out with reading the paper, tennis for 5.5 hours, recouperation etc etc
Sunday morning was perfect, working out in the street driveway, overcast, not too hot/cold etc .....
Soooooooooo Beryl now has a "new" rear suspender, and a noticeable difference as I toodled off on my slightly higher K12. The weather this morning at 05:30 as I set off was not all that friendly, rain, thunder, lightning, ya know the normal riding weather.....for pommyland.... but the Sydney road potholes ....what potholes???????
Have attached a step by step operation to change the rear shock for those that want to, or need to, do this exercise.
I now have a spare rear shock that I will check out to get rebuilt, prices etc etc..
Perhaps this could be a handy "floating" shock for those on the list here that need to spend a couple of hours doing a changeover rather than buying new, or sending their original away for "x" weeks to get rebuilt.
(Yes.....I did ask Ian if he a front suspender unit there, but nahhhhh ....)
cheers
Phill
'78 XS1100E "The Tardis"
'99 K1200LT "Beryl Beemer"
Up until yesterday morning, still fitted with original suspenders, which made travelling on the Sydney roads extremely "painful" at the very least.
It also introduced a mandatory amount of conservatism in riding, just to ensure that:
a) you stayed on the bike,
b) you managed to get around the corner
In the last month or two a noticeable "wallow" had appeared when trying to negotiate sweeping corners, which brought back memories of my 1960 650cc Triumph Tiger 110, complete with "bathtub" fairing.
Enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I deserve a better life than this.................
Phone Sydney "Motohansa" for a price for a rear shock, BMW and Ohlin. $1,050 and $1,250 respectively.
Phone Sydney BMW dealer I normal get parts from "Procycles", $950 for the BMW one, ex Melbourne, shows as 1 in stock, but need payment before ordering.
Perhaps the BMW dealer in Melbourne can give my old mate Ian "Onions" a better price????? worth a shot I thought........
ring ring......ring ring......ring ring.......
Now here's a weird bit of "ooooohhhhhhhh"
Ian says he has a spare rear shock for a K12 in the cupboard behind his office desk as we speak.
"huh"?????????
Ian had bought the shock from Ebay, following an advert from a guy who had converted his K12 into a trike.......thinking that this lump of spring and stuff may come in handy one day.....
Perfect.
A price agreed upon, Ian packaged the unit up and sent up to Sydney a couple of days later only $11:56 or such like postage.
The unit arrived Friday, Saturday is a wipe out with reading the paper, tennis for 5.5 hours, recouperation etc etc
Sunday morning was perfect, working out in the street driveway, overcast, not too hot/cold etc .....
Soooooooooo Beryl now has a "new" rear suspender, and a noticeable difference as I toodled off on my slightly higher K12. The weather this morning at 05:30 as I set off was not all that friendly, rain, thunder, lightning, ya know the normal riding weather.....for pommyland.... but the Sydney road potholes ....what potholes???????
Have attached a step by step operation to change the rear shock for those that want to, or need to, do this exercise.
I now have a spare rear shock that I will check out to get rebuilt, prices etc etc..
Perhaps this could be a handy "floating" shock for those on the list here that need to spend a couple of hours doing a changeover rather than buying new, or sending their original away for "x" weeks to get rebuilt.
(Yes.....I did ask Ian if he a front suspender unit there, but nahhhhh ....)
cheers
Phill
'78 XS1100E "The Tardis"
'99 K1200LT "Beryl Beemer"