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the parts person told me that BMW was dropping the 7.5 oil and was now supplying 10-weight fork oil. I thought I might give it a try, until he told me it was $31 a liter bot- tle! I was used to buying the other BMW oil for less than ten dollars a bottle. I went home and started looking at several online BMW dealers. I ended up buying a couple of cases from two of them at the old price. When I grabbed the pair of bottles in my basement, I was left with about four more. A couple of dealers still offered the 7.5
stuff—at $29 a bottle. The 10-weight oil was also available at the same price. Like any- one who behaves in accordance with Econ 101, I was looking for substitutes. I ended up buying four bottles of Spectro 7.5-weight fork oil, which came to $15 a bottle, even paying for the shipping. I also remembered what we used at BMW of Colorado Springs, in the 1970s and ‘80s: AeroShell 4 hydraulic oil. We liked it enough that the shop pur- chased a 55-gallon barrel of the stuff, some of which we sold to other shops. As it turns out, it remains widely used in aircraft hydraulic systems and is available from a number of sources. I’ve ordered a few bot- tles of that as well, with the cost to my door at around $11 a bottle. A couple of weekends ago, the BMW
MOA held a Weekend Getaway here in my town. They were at the Elegante, a high- end hotel on the south side of town. I had actually forgotten about it, but received a call from the organizers, Deb Lower and Stan Herman. They said that Sam, one of their guests, rode in from the Midwest and had a broken clutch cable on his K 75. They had called all of the front range Colorado dealers, and nobody had the needed cable. I knew all my cables were intended for air- head BMWs, but figured that maybe one of them might fit. I wrapped up my two boxes (I probably have 50 new and used cables) in a poncho, tied the bundle on the back of my Slash Five, picked out a few tools, and
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