1978 Airhead

Hello,

Here is the start of my 1978 BMW R100RS.

Brought from an older (than me) chap in Tauranga. Found it reasonably cheap due to it being a R100RS with the RT fairing on it,  meaning that the purest's wont touch it because its wrong. Which works out well with me as I planned on taking it off straight away.

Some benefits of the R100RS compared to other versions of the R100 is it had as a rear disk brake instead of a drum and kick start (and electric). Which I've been told the kick start's are hard to come by.

Here is some pictures I took of it about a week in.







A lot of work ahead, I've made some progress and sold the parts I took off to pay for new bits.

Once I got sick of driving a massive wind shield around I ripped it off and sold all the parts on the front end. From the bits I sold , they paid for about half of the new parts. I got parts from Dime City Cycle's and an Ozzie shop.

Handlebars
Indicators
Grips
Mirrors
Headlight
Speedo
Mufflers
Tail Light


I added some Spray paint to the tank and smashed swapped the parts out, It ended up like this:

I broke down on the way to the Classic and Custom show and after some research discovered its my ignition coil. So I have a new one on the way but because its just sitting there I decided to freshen up some bits including the wheel and sub frame paint. This is how she looks Today:





Tomorrow I plan on painting the wheels and a few other bits.

I'll ride it in a work in progress state this summer then when winter comes I plan on pulling it apart and working from the ground up making it all new and nice. I still don't really know my end product. Definitely want a Brat seat and knobby tyres so I can go anywhere.

I also decided I'm painting the tank again so that will change, just working out what I like the look of. Brother in law is a car painter so once I know the finshed product ill hand it off to him to make it look 100%. This week it will be grey with two black stiped down the middle:



Some tech I definalty want is the motogadget stuff, if you dont know what it is and are looking to do your bike electrics watch this video, he explains it very well:

Painted the tank again, trying to figure out what I like.

Tank looks good like that, just needs a Grease Monkeys sticker on each side with some black pinstripes 

Looking better already, you're definitely on the right track, Looking forward to the finished job.
Keep up the good work, V11 Max