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Title: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: frankenduck on August 22, 2012, 05:31:52 PM
My K1 needs a new seat.  The old one is a) a fairly uncomfortable stock K seat and b) has about 80k on it and is showing it's age.  It's usable but needed to be replaced.

Saw an ad over at the IBMWR Marketplace from a guy in Puyallup (30 miles south of me)who had a couple of decent Corbin K1 seats for sale.  So I went down there and bought them. 

Under a cover in his garage he's got a very nice blue w/ silver markings K1 with only 5k on it!   :yow
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: TimTyler on August 22, 2012, 10:28:49 PM
What did you offer him?  :drool:
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: frankenduck on August 22, 2012, 10:45:38 PM
Quote from: TimTyler on August 22, 2012, 10:28:49 PM
What did you offer him?  :drool:

That bike would fetch a lot more than I'd ever be willing to pay.  Bikes like that are for collectors, not riders.

And I already own a K1 that I swapped a bunch of newer parts into and have running "like new."  K1s are pretty rare but I've never seen one like mine:

(http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwr_k1/bmwr_pics/IMG_3343.JPG)

But I did get a good deal on the two K1 Corbins. I've had my eye out for a good seat for that bike since I got it in April of last year. Very cool that my patience paid off and I found a couple of good ones locally. :2thumbup:
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: tsbt on August 24, 2012, 09:52:53 AM
Please tell us you snapped a shot of the blue with silver, K1.  :drool:
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: frankenduck on August 24, 2012, 11:27:47 AM
I didn't even see the whole thing. He's got it stuffed behind a bunch of other crap under a cover in the garage and hasn't ridden it in a couple of years. He lifted the cover off of the back of it to let me take a peek.

He's got a 12GS as his daily rider so the reason it doesn't have many miles on it is because he doesn't ever ride it.
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: TaosBrick on August 26, 2012, 09:48:33 AM
Yeah, yer K1 one looks pretty frikken cool alright, but that seat don't look too comfy. Good score!
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: frankenduck on August 26, 2012, 10:01:01 AM
The stocker is "OK" with an Alaska butt pad.

Yeah, amazingly lucky to find not one, but two, of them in decent condition - and local to boot.  I don't imagine there are too many of them in existence and Corbin doesn't make them anymore.
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: tsbt on August 26, 2012, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: frankenduck on August 26, 2012, 10:01:01 AM
Corbin doesn't make them anymore.

Massive score. Two!!!
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: frankenduck on August 26, 2012, 09:07:41 PM
NowI just need to find another K1. :hehehe
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: sh00ter on August 26, 2012, 09:34:15 PM
Did you happen to see the fleabay one in WI a few weeks back?  Black on black.   Super clean; just wanted too much $$ for it, upwards of 5k if I remember.
Title: Re: Saw a K1 with only 5K on it today!
Post by: frankenduck on August 26, 2012, 10:11:14 PM
Since there weren't a lot produced/sold 20 years ago, a lot of them end up being collector bikes. Not to mention that given the storage they're not great LD touring bikes.  The one I have had 77k on it when I bought it.  I'm sure there are higher mile ones out there but high mile ones are somewhat rare IMO.  Not that 77k is high mile for a K bike though.....