I DON'T FREAKING BELIEVE IT. I saw this bike on CL immediately after I bought my K75 for $800 from my neighbor and immediately had buyer's remorse. I called my neighbor, who's something of a Beemer guru, and told him he needed it. He called to make an offer the next morning, and you'd already snatched it up, apparently.
Great score, sir. Hopefully I'll see you in the alphabets somewhere southwest of Madison soon!
Shnaps Guy, you make me giggle, thanks. I didn't believe it either. My bride is still rolling her eyes as I'm supposed to get clearance.
How it happened: I was off for that day and sitting in the oral surgeon's waiting room in Middleton, awaiting a root canal appointment. Like me, you probably scroll through Craigslist postings as a distraction and in this instance, it was the throbbing pain in my jaw.
I called the dude who admitted to having 8 inquiries queued for callbacks but not takers.. I consider myself a fair judge of character, probably from decades in sales and despite my choice of mentors here in the asylum...ok I jest... You can smell when you have a straight shooter on the line. He didn't mix metaphors, it was running, maintained, ridden that day, but puking oil in the telltale location and correct 80k mileage for a main shaft seal replacement.
Knowing my name would be called any minute I asked: "do you have a Paypal account?" - in less than 5 minutes I pulled the trigger sight unseen and without even running it when I picked it up. If you look at my video after I installed a fresh battery, I was pretty tickled at how well it fired up. A fun day in deed.
I take pokes and prods here about my goal to have it roadworthy for a grand. All told, more like $1500. In truth that's entirely possible but not practicable when my full intent is to thrash the thing. Perfect brakes adds to about $500 with all-new stainless lines etc. etc.
The BIG story, all here can appreciate is the silly high-value propositions available with used Bricks. Mind you, No one here will get rich flipping K Bikes but what you get for your money is very impressive.
The majority of Brick patrons cared for their bike and stored it indoors. My latest find is an even more sick example: 96 VRF750F Interceptor with 16k miles for ...yes $500. And that project will roll for under a grand....
Granted it's not an air-cooled 911 but for the cost of some Porsche bits I've purchased over the years...a $1200 spark plug harness, $2000 second gear synchrode...the bang for the buck is pretty satisfying. Thanks for writing. I live just West of Dodgeville under the windmills at Montfort. Where are you? Come visit. Come ride!
