Just got back from the Dentist so make allowances for my typing, anesthetic makes me slur and dribble.(more than usual).
The brick is a K75 RT low seat first reg 28th Jan 1994 used by BMW as a press bike. Then sold on with 3000km to a guy in Sydney, for the next 15 years he used it as daily transport doing 250 km a day, plus other commuting and touring throughout NSW and Vic. By 2009 the bike was showing adverse signs of 1.2 million Km it had done. He was thinking about upgrading it and getting a K1200, this decision was taking out of his hands when he hit a diesel spill, that had caused an accident he was passing through. He managed to catch the rear but dropped it when the front let go. Fairings screen and tragkorbs were heavily damaged. He bought the K1200 and eventually passed on the bike to a mate as a project. the mate couldn't cope with the weight and passed it on. The current owner then got it in a partially dismantled state with broken bits of fairing and tragkorb. His first task was to clean the wheels which he thought were black but when hit with a pressure washer they were revealed as pristine condition silver. The fairing and tragkorbs were pieced together by plastic welding and fibre glassing, steering head bearing rollers had embedded themselves into the races due to the high mileage of freeway work, and were replaced. The bike was repainted in black two pac the windscreen was replaced the seat redone as well as the rear shock being rebuilt. The bike is currently being used on a semi regular basis . The magazine is from 2014. Nowhere in the article does it say any engine or gearbox rebuilds were undertaken.
Regards Martin.
