Some Motorcycles: 1988 BMW R 75
This next feature is for a pair of older BMW motorcycles and comes as a tip from David who says; Not a car, but an astonishing BMW deal anyway. Seriously, an amazing deal for any airhead. I’m not a motorcycle guy, but I will say that there is one that looks older and has an aircooled flat-two-cylinder engine and the other is newer (but not newish) and looks like the future from 1988. The few times I’ve driven (ridden?) a motorcycle was terrifying and exciting — but the best part to me would be the lost cost of entry and the fact that I could have like 10 of them in the garage before the wife figured out that it wasn’t just one in pieces. Find these 1988ish BMW motorcycles offered for $3000 in Brandenton, FL via the facemelting marketberg.
From the seller:
1988 BMW R 75
$3,000
Vehicles
Listed 4 hours ago in Bradenton, FL
About This Vehicle
Driven 1,474 miles
Manual transmission
Exterior color: Blue
1 owner
Seller’s Description
Selling a pair of BMW motorcycles for 3000. Been sitting for a numbers of years and was running great when parked. Untouched for years. All paper work, helmet, suites, books cargo boxes etc lots of extra!!
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Golly gee whiz, that’s a 1985 tag on a pre 1981 blue plate on a “1988” r75?
Ex Emmett Lathrop Brown, Ph.D perhaps?
I think it kind of looks like a 1978ish r75 and some sort of K bike to me, I guess you could fit a flux capacitor in there but more likely a three cylinder ICE ?
It’s a whopping bargain I think!
Oh, just noticed the BMW K75 has a license that reads “BMW K75”
If this is anything like when my uncle left us a barn full of broken Porsches, the 1975 R75 broke in 1985 and was replaced by an 85 K75.
R75, yes! dead solid reliable capable of motoring just above idle or lofting the front wheel.
K75, NO! All is fine until it’s time to change the clutch and pretty much take the whole damn thing apart. Granted that will be at 150,000 miles though.
Sometimes I think that conceptually some motor vehicles are designed as layers accreted around the throw out bearing. But at least the k75 is a bike. As in you may have to take it apart but at least there isn’t a body and frame enclosing it. Ask a Maserati 3500 owner about servicing the clutch. You literally have to take the engine apart to get down to pieces small enough to remove to get to the clutch. Or you can take apart the the interior and pull the transmission out through the passenger compartment, or so I have been told.
Of course if they had made more than a couple hundred of them they might have thought of writing a service manual for them.