K1200S

[fjtwelve]

Its not true, I didn't fall in the canal

Sorry about the long break but stuff has been happening. The extended wet the grandbabys head celebrations that merged into birthday celebrations that merged into other peoples leaving dos that sloshed into my retirement dos all took their toll.





I finally pulled the pin on 4th October and rode back home on the 5th. 94000 came up on the way back



We have been pottering about for a few weeks



I much preferred Lands End in the early 80s when I was on a 4 points run and all that was here was this little hut with a jobbing artist inside, none of the tat that's there now. Anyway I then spent 2 weeks fighting Microsoft into submission and now have something similar to what I had at work , the only remaining problem being a 47GB pst file on Onedrive that loaded up fine but won't download, answers on a postcard to this address. Anyway as light relief from that I noticed there was a 50% off sale at Ocean last Saturday and legged it down the road to get some new waterproofs. Well the jacket was OK but as I'm still a fat bastard (retirement target #1 is lose a pound a week for the next year) they had no trousers my size.  So I bought the jacket and persuaded him to sell me a pair of trousers that weren't in the sale half price as well. There was a slight catch in that I had to buy this as well



I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and could raid the pension fund for cash, I think he could have sold it half a dozen times since Saturday. Its a 16 plate with 10k on the clock. Very clean, 2 years warranty etc. So I'll have to potter about here until next Saturday when I get my hands on it. Mind you there's a very big swell running on a Spring tide with a howling easterly behind it and its raining for 2 days so it doesn't look like this right now



So the K12 is up for sale, you can also get the Akrapovic, the original exhaust, the 2 spare wheels, the two fairing side panels that need painted if you are going to use them. Make me an offer I can't refuse. Otherwise I'll return it to standard and sell the rest separately. Meantime I'll get it fettled and run it for winter and keep the K13 tucked away for the better days. I have a London trip in about 3 weeks which will be a useful run in trip

[richtea]

Fabulous, and congratulations on many accounts! 
And a fine fine bike - you landed that one nicely.

Will be interested to hear your K1200 v K1300 thoughts.

[Matt]

Congratulations on the trousers!

Also, we're all going to be riding the same colour bike soon, may as well come to terms and sort out a 100 bike photoshoot!

Huge pst on OneDrive hmm... when you say it won't download, do you mean right click -> download or via the desktop 'app' when you ask it to sync things locally? That's about as much as I got, i.e. two ways to try and get it local. Otherwise I say retire... oh wait!

[fjtwelve]

It wont sync in the onedrive app. I'll try a separate download and see what happens

[Phmode]

It's at times like this that I wish we had membership fees Martin, because I would love to award you a lifetime's free membership for your bloody-minded persistence in doggedly stalking the mileage increments on the K12 and posting them up for one and all to marvel at. Well done. Just a pity we never got to the BIG ONE!

I like the discount arrangement on the trousers, looks nice. Shame it has no Sport Cases! Or are you riding naked now that paid employment has ceased?

As far as the weight loss regime is concerned, I can highly recommend the 5-2 diet/Fast Diet/whatever the latest name is.

Easy peasy and I managed 1Kg a week, 3 stone all in before I levelled out. Course, it doesn't work for everyone but it is well worth the try.

[TomL]

Best wishes in your retirement Martin.

The Motorsport should give you lots of fun. Especially using the quickshifter on overtakes.

[Bruno]

Looks good Martin.  Enjoy it, and of course your retirement.

[fjtwelve]

Just a pity we never got to the BIG ONE!

I like the discount arrangement on the trousers, looks nice. Shame it has no Sport Cases! Or are you riding naked now that paid employment has ceased[/i]

The big one? Hmm let's see how long it takes to sell it....

Sports cases? Still thinking about it. Looked at Kriega the other day but felt I preferred the bigger stuff space of the bmw soft bag, which I intend to replace

[chriscanning]

Congratulations Martin on the retirement just don’t go thinking you’ll have heaps of time on your hands we are 10 months in and have had to buy a diary to fill in so we remember what we have Organised life is that busy Barnstable tomorrow via James Sherlock 

Re the 1200 i’d Be keeping it with currently 6 bikes I find the thought of just the one restricting at best aided by the fact the end can on yours probably has more value than the rest of the bike it’ll be just the job in bad weather no point in ruining a good’un.

[black-k1]

Congrats on retirement and the new bike. They should complement each other really well!

[gibbo]

Please keep the 12 until you have the 100K up. You may be the only one who will ever achieve this feat. 

Oh! And congrats on your retirement and the new to you Motorsport.

Did they ever make 100+ Motorsports as Matt would like? Terrific photo if they did.

[Matt]

Ok my assumptions being this:

1. They only made Motorsport editions in 2015 and 2016

Which is probably not true, howmanyleft.co.uk says:

2015: 193 new registrations
2016: 105 new registrations

Now every bike from 2015 on Autotrader is a Motorsport so maybe my ill-thought-out assumptions hold some water!

So yeah, we could do it!

[black-k1]

Ok my assumptions being this:

1. They only made Motorsport editions in 2015 and 2016

Which is probably not true, howmanyleft.co.uk says:

2015: 193 new registrations
2016: 105 new registrations

Now every bike from 2015 on Autotrader is a Motorsport so maybe my ill-thought-out assumptions hold some water!

So yeah, we could do it!

I'm not sure what the "assumption" is/was but I can say that when, in Sept'15, I was confirming the order for my MotorSport there were only 2 other K1300Ss in the BMW system. Both were Black Sports and a friend of mine got one of them. My understanding was that it was only MotorSports after that and that those with 16 plates were from an extra batch BMW UK managed to "acquire" that were originally destined for elsewhere in Europe.

[Matt]

Sorry, badly worded. My assumption was that the only model made in those years was the Motorsport. But reading your post it sounds like there were normal ones too.

[richtea]

Sorry, badly worded. My assumption was that the only model made in those years was the Motorsport. But reading your post it sounds like there were normal ones too.

Very very few, though. I looked hard for 2015/6 normal colour bikes when I was buying. I probably saw 1 for every 10 Motorsports. Hence my multicoloured purchase in the end.