Breaking for PartsK75

K75 RT Strip and Part Out — Flying Brick Parts is Born

This one arrived after twelve years standing. A late 1995 K75 RT in the deep candy red, ABS-equipped, 85,000 miles on the clock and a folder of service history thick enough to prop a door open. Someone's pride and joy — and, going by the way it was tucked up, their last bike.

Arrival day. Twelve years off the road and still standing on its own centre stand — the red still glows under the dust.

The story I was told: bought new, ridden hard for the first decade, then parked when health took over. Battery flat, tyres square, but the bones looked promising. A fresh battery went in, the dash lit up, the fuel pump stayed silent.

K75 RT fuse box with legend visible — Straight to the fuse box under the tank. The legend is still legible — *Kraftstoffpumpe*, fuel pump, right there.

Blown fuel pump fuse held between thumb and finger — Ten seconds of diagnosis. Blown fuel pump fuse — the strip is severed clean in the middle. Not a bad first find.

Replacement fuse in, key on, and the pump chattered back to life. She would have run. But a walk around the bike told a longer story — the fairing was cracked through in two places behind the screen, the frame was scabbed with deep rust at the headstock, and the fork lowers had gone past the point where a rebuild was worth the money.

K75 RT screen and cockpit from above — Screen, cockpit and the classic RT fairing profile — the top half was salvageable, the lower panels were not.

K75 RT front wheel, brake discs and rusted fork stanchion — Front end. The tax disc still showing 29-02-2012 — the last day she was legal. Forks pitted, rust under the paint, discs lipped.

Rear wheel, ABS modulator and shock — The rear told the same story — ABS modulator surface-rusted, shock tired, swingarm salvageable.

The decision

There was no honest route to a runner without spending more than the bike would ever be worth. So the plan changed: strip her cleanly, save every good part, and put the frame and forks into the scrap bin so the next owner of a Flying Brick can keep theirs on the road for less.

K75 triple engine and gearbox removed and sat on the floor — Engine and gearbox out as a unit. Alternator, Bosch injection, airbox — all worth saving. Compression was good on all three.

Stripped K75 frame and red tank in the garage — Frame stripped bare. Tank off, subframe off, loom coiled. The red tank was a keeper — no dents, original badge.

Loading the K75 RT into a Luton van with another bike — Loading day. The last time all of her rolled together.

The frame, forks and the worst of the fairing went to the metal merchants in Derby. Twelve quid in cash for the lot. Not much, but enough for a round of brake cleaner and a decent breakfast.

Sorted K75 parts along a brick wall — wheels, radiator, subframe, harness — What came home. Wheels, radiator, subframe, harness, ECU, switchgear, brakes — a shelf's worth of a bike.

Flying Brick Parts

Everything worth saving from this K75 RT — and from every project since — is being listed on eBay under Flying Brick Parts. The idea is simple: keep the cost of running a K series down for the people still riding them. If a fuse, a fairing panel, a good wheel or a running engine keeps somebody's Flying Brick on the road, that's a better ending than a skip.

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Rest easy, M626 JPM. Eighty-five thousand miles is a life well ridden.