All the above suggestions are true and good. But the place to start is to make sure your present system is working 100% before you upgrade anything. O...

March 25, 2016. One of my favorite destinations made with a short 220 mile weekday cruise. It rained the night before and cleared the air, leaving fab...

That and they're $80 a pop. At that low price, a good friend would buy us all a set !! 😆 Best of luck with the repairs. Have you made you...

Check out the brake line article for the R100RT at Gunsmoke.Com. Everything you need is there. Oh sure, NOW you tell me !! 😆 Thanks.

The real issue is running wonky above 4k rpm, ohm question was just a starting point. Not well thought out in retrospect. Looking forward to insta...

Your description is not very clear to me. If by "back bleeding" you mean forcing fluid into the caliper bleed nipple and all the way up to the master ...

I put my handy multimeter on my 1k cables, and see 860 ohms on the R, and 945 on the left. It's fairly clear he said he had "1K cables", which I i...

Long story... History Teflon-lined stainless steel brake lines were required to replace the visibly expanding factory hoses on my 1979 R100. Ebay ...

It may have been old gas or not a battery tender. Apologies for wandering from the main topic, but I will tell you 2 things... ► Ethanol fuel ov...

I'm no expert, but my 1979 has copper core plug wires and 5K Ohm resistor plug caps. You shouldn't need resistor wires unless it's interfering with yo...

My bike is a 1979, and may differ slightly.... ► Place the bike on the center stand. Pop out the rubber plug on the very bottom of the fork leg. Up ...