Thanks for all your input. My quandary is that despite the fact that the bike has an Ohlins, a Parabellum Scout, working ABS and -- believe it or not -- a Bruno-rebuilt DS and FD -- the only people who called on his ad were douchebags who just wanted to lowball him with offensively low offers. I'm the only one who offered him full price and appreciated the value of the bike and the 175k miles he'd run on it. Thing is, my DS, FD shock on on of my existing red brick are shot, so I swapped the Bruno DS, FD and Ohlins onto it today. Now I have a 94,K75 with crap FD, DS, shock, tires and 175k miles. Market value of this bike now -- jack ch1t. Could it do another 175k? Probably, but who's going to buy a high-mileage K75 knowing what all needs replacing? Nobody, I'll wager.
The PO couldn't even get $1500 for his 175k-mile K75 even with all those goodies. I guess my point is that at some point supply exceeds demand and one high mileage bike gets cannibalized to keep low mileage bikes on the road.
What I'm thinking of doing is removing anything street-related and selling the buck naked rest for $400. I would then have two sets of cases, C bars, a Parabellum Sport, and a perfect complete low seat hardware, misc body parts and other items and hardware to sell to the community at reasonable price.
Or, I could part the whole thing out and add a good tank, wheels, transmission, and Showa front end to the parts bin, among other things. I think the community would benefit from these parts.
I don't feel good about scavenging a running bike but truth is we people need parts more than other people want high-mileage Kbikes. I'm bringing this up because I suspect this is going to come up more frequently as the pool of available parts shrinks and more and more dirt cheap but running bikes come on the market. Truth is, the bikes run longer than their useful life. At some point you have to just bite the bullet and start the teardown.
