mr west wrote:This forum is absolutely great! No matter how strange question, you always get great help and detailed answers from around the globe!
Rudolph, thanks! But what do you mean original 76? The spokes must still have been adjusted so many times the last 39 years, no? But I guess that your bike is running absolutely straight right? So I will check against the answers from here and see what I´ll find... Thanks again guys!
No, the spokes were never adjusted, I am 100% sure about that.
The K1 is from 1976; as a second owner I did purchase it in 1978 with approx. 10.000 mls on the odo; than drove approx. 600 mls untill 1983.
That year I stored it in my garage with original 10.600 mls on the odo and never touched/drove it
for 31 years untill 2014.
In 2014 I started to renovate the K1 which was still in excellent shape and condition, however every part had to be inspected/checked, the engine fortunately did not have to be opened.
I wanted to change the OEM spokes against SS spokes, therefore in 2014 I at first measured very precisely the position of the rims versus the hubs, in order to be able to achieve the exact OEM-arrangement again.
It did run with the old spokes absolutely straight and now with the SS spokes straight again.
Since a couple of weeks the K1 is almost "renovated".......
In another thread on this forum I reported this...................
Today the restauration of my GL1000 K1 became finished for 99,5%; radiatorwings to be treated, carb's to be adjusted and some minor work to be done.
Made my maiden trip this afternoon to the gasstation, 7 mls v.v; she was running excellent; it is a very impressing experience after all those years.
The K1 is 40 years old and has 10.600 mls on the odo; 37 years of ownership of which the last 32 years stored in my garage under a selfmade plane...........my age was 35 when I purchased her, next month I hope to be 72 years old.
The restauration lasted 11 months in which I did spent approx. 750 hours of labour and a couple of thousand dollars for motorparts, paint, polishing, new set of tires, SS spokes, etc, etc.........the engine and frame were spraypainted and all tubes were treatad from the inside with an anticorrosion-protection (400 ml of stuff); the coloured panels still have the original paint as supplied by the factory.
Regards, Ruud
Best regards, Ruud