A brief affair with a K75s (BMW K75)

Member Name: baldeagle

Product:	BMW K75
Date:	08/08/00 (8666 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy and reliable, mostly well made

Disadvantages: Big, heavy and crap box

After years riding an old and trusted BMW boxer, I thought it was time to move into twentieth century, so I bought a K75.

The K at first seemed big, flash and very powerfull compared to the old twin, and whilst the three cylinder engine couldn't compare with a jap 4 in terms of any adrenalin rush, it had torque.

To keep going at a reasonable rate on public roads, outright power is not all that useful, cause it usually depends on being in the right gear at the right time to fully exploit it. The K had no real power, only developing a modest 75bhp, but it had torque all the way from tickover to the ignition cut out.

On the road it meant you could stay in top gear all day, enter bends in any gear, and still power out without dancing on the gear shift, often to the annoyance of sport bike riders.

A great engine with a distinctive triple sound, but wrapped in heavy cycle parts with a gearbox that sounded as though it was going to suffer a terminal failure at every change.

Maybe thats why they made it so torquey?

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