07-25-2022, 01:18 PM
(07-20-2022, 08:27 PM)tommymck_imp Wrote: Beautiful bike. Is it new to you? What's it's story? How do you find the riding characteristics in comparison to the 1100?
I’ve had it for several years but sadly - at least for me - rarely find the time to ride it and also regard it as a precious machine that I don’t want to mess up.
It’s kind of a long story Tommy, but the third owner (to my knowledge) had listed the bike at a time when I was working on my K6. His ad popped up on my feed and I let him know it was too pretty for how little he was asking for it. He appreciated the honesty from a stranger, pulled the ad and we endeavoured to meet up for a ride soon. Weather got in the way as he rightly didn’t want to get the K1 all dirty with road grease and mud. Years went by. I reached out. No answer. Another year goes by and I heard from his widow, who invited me to come take a look at the bike. We struck a deal and it became my bike for several thousand dollars more than he had been asking in his original listing, and now I have this gorgeous 51 year old bike in my life and a clear conscience for the commerce behind it.
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