I'm lookin at this R90S

[DanielMc]

Just noticed - the front mudguard looks like it's on backwards...

As usual, the excellent BMBikes website has all the information on chassis numbers: http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/chassispages/e ... sis900.htm

[Garnet]

I think that Ken is just trying to put me off while he scowers the CL adds within a 300 mile radius of me.

Garnet, Garnet, Garnet, how could you even imagine that I might be up to something like that--no matter how fond I am of R90S bikes, even a clone R90S bike.

What's more I can prove my good intentions. Tell me where you live, then when you go to look at the bike ask the owner if anybody named Ken has asked about it.


Ken, pure of heart in OKlahoma

Now I am worried.

[Garnet]

Here is a link to some better quality pics.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3j ... directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pT ... directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hU ... directlink

I'll ask some more questions and get a VIN and then I have an airhead knowlagable friend that can go and check it out for me. Problem there is I trust him less with an R90S for sale than I trust Ken.

[George Ryals]

Ken in S.A., the fairing on R90s's is mounted to the forks so it turns with the handlebars, no problem with clearance.

[Kurt in S.A.]

Ken in S.A., the fairing on R90s's is mounted to the forks so it turns with the handlebars, no problem with clearance.

Doh! I forgot about that...I'm so used to my barn door Lufty...

Kurt in S.A.

[Chuey]

[quote="Garnet"]I found this 74 R90S about 300 miles from home, asking $5900 OBO. [quote="Garnet"]

R90S is a really fun bike. I don't count rivets so I'll leave that part alone.

Chuey

[Rob Frankham]

Can the handlebars work with that fairing? Looks like in the last picture that any movement to one side or the other and they'll hit the fairing.

BTW...the cylinders look black to me.

Kurt in S.A.

Hmmm, on the R90s, the fairing is handlebar mounted isn't it?

Rob

[Ken in Oklahoma]

Hmmm, on the R90s, the fairing is handlebar mounted isn't it?

Well, as a detail, the fairing is mounted to the forks, the lower mounting points being the turn signal stalks and the ujpper mounting points being connected to a bracket just under the top nut on the fork tubes. The effect is, of course, the same.

One of my future project bike plans is to mount an S fairing onto a modified RS or RT bracket, which in turn is mounted (as you know) on the frame stem. Since the RS/RT headlight assembly is mounted to that bracket, and since the headlight has to look through the hole in the S fairing, the S fairing ends up being mounted a tad higher (and I think a tad more forward) on the bike than the stock fork mounted S fairing.


Ken

[Garnet]

The RPM supperbikes from the late 70s had frame mounted S fairings (I believe).

Everyone needs somthing to believe in......I believe I'll have a beer.

[Garnet]

One of my future project bike plans is to mount an S fairing onto a modified RS or RT bracket, which in turn is mounted (as you know) on the frame stem. Since the RS/RT headlight assembly is mounted to that bracket, and since the headlight has to look through the hole in the S fairing, the S fairing ends up being mounted a tad higher (and I think a tad more forward) on the bike than the stock fork mounted S fairing.

Ken

This add show an RS without the fairng but with the headlight. It does look a bit higher.
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/m ... 71783.html