Gidday my name is Col and I am 59 years old. Been riding since I was 15, owned Suzuki 50, BSA 350, '51 Triumph 650, XS2650 Yamaha, Suzuki 250, Honda CT110, Honda CB550-4, Yamaha XS650 Special, '83 BMW K100RS (last 7 years) and now a 2000 ST1100, purchased dead a couple of months ago and now registered and learning to get on with me.
I'm a mechanic so I've always bought projects, improved them, consumed them and moved them on.
The ST is the nicest and newest and lowest K's bike (48,500) I've ever owned.
Just getting used to Japanese thinking after years of German thinking.
What I don't like... Seat too low, aftermarket seat I may have to swap or modify, pity because its in great condition, but I'm 5'16" and that's too tall for this seat.
... Exhaust too noisy, no evidence of tampering but it has an annoying bark around 3000 rpm. Have jammed a drilled welch plug up the rear of the mufflers packed with steel wool. Yet to ride it and try it out.
My bike is blue but the paint code is white, suggesting it may have been a cop bike that got converted. The paint is scratched and touch-up paint is hard to get but Big W has $4 nail polish at present that has a too purple colour (105) and a too blue colour (929) that mix up to a pretty good match.
