Rcatech emulators on a R100RS

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Eric,

I think the term ‘kit’ is an urban myth to a degree. In my experience, several BMW shops have offered common rebuild or re-seal parts as ‘kits’. Mostly it was pulling the parts for the customer’s convenience—their contents vary from shop to shop. I am not sure BMW ever offered a kit. I think the shops do that less and less (sort of the same demise as the airhead tech knowledge base—we are on our own). 

Your bike is at the cusp of change for the R100, so I would pull the forks and disassemble just 1 of them to inspect. They are not terribly complicated and this list has an amazing amount of knowledge to assist. 

All of the parts are still readily available and searchable on MaxBMW.com’s micro fiche. 

I can’t recall where you are located, but in a pinch I’d bet fellow airheads would don a mask and ride over to help. It’s a big part of the credo.

Brooks has also replied to a few of my questions. 

—Tony




On May 10, 2021, at 08:04, Zwicky, Eric <ezwicky2 at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Tony.   I was looking at Brooks' write-up on this last evening.  I will probably end up doing it myself now that I've had several encouragements.

I want to completely rebuild the forks, so is a regular rebuild kit correct even knowing that I'll be doing the emulators?

Or does the modification preclude any of the normal [parts?

Thanks,

Eric

On 5/10/2021 7:08 AM, Tony wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> Sounds like a great find!  It is not a complicated job as Bill points out. You do not need a drill press, mill, etc. Just keep things clean, be methodical and take your time. Fellow airhead Brook Reams does an outstanding and thorough job describing the process in the following YouTube video:
>    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hgLcrCoj4
>    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hgLcrCoj4>
> Hope this helps.
> --Tony Bennett