They must have had to ship it further to me than Bob... my bank account shows $252 for the rotor. For me, the semi-floating adaptation is a bonus.. I just knew I didn't want to pay 480 seashells for a new 1980s tech rotor! The process was a piece of cake, too.. you just ship your old rotor in and they clean up the carrier, install new shiny bits, and send it back. Put a piece of paper with your name and number on it in the box so they know where it goes.
Then 49$ for "BMW" brand brake pads, $282 for the fork seals, small shim, and another $180 for the new front tire (I brought the rim in off the bike, and the service guy had a hard time trying to figure out how to charge me so little for labor.) Hopefully these improvements will last a while, because this hobby is getting expensive!
I'd already replaced the original brake line with SS lines, and replaced the master cylinder, so the brakes are in pretty good shape now.. pretty much the best feel of any motorcycle I've owned. (The R65 is the newest bike I've owned.)
Wirespokes - you're saying to use the old brake pads to push the pistons back in? Did you unmount the caliper? I couldn't get much leverage anyway I went at it. I tried with several items including a clamp or two and couldn't get them to budge, thus me getting "inventive"
and making a huge mess. One advantage of doing it this way was the the old brake fluid, somewhat gunky, got ejected instead of pushing it back into the lines.
Also, sticker wise, you mean you don't have a local parking permit, state inspection, and locality tax sticker, plus registration on the license plate? I'm lucky I had the sticker plate, even if it's pretty beat up now. The state inspection sticker color changes every year, and they wanted to put the stickers on the forks! I've since moved to Texas, where, as Monte was just saying, nobody cares.
