Project FauxPo 2: BMW K75 service and MoT
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- This time we get stuck into a full service and take the bike for a MoT test in a bid to make it roadworthy and legal.
First though - can it stay dressed up like a police bike and even if it could, would I want it to!?
This link will take you to the relevant part of the The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989: www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1...
This link is for a decent overview of performing a full service on a BMW K75:
• BMW K75 - Major Servic...
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always loved this era of BMW .. modern enough to be reliable , but old enough that you can work on it yourself
Having a fuel filler big enough to get your hand in is a big help!
My first thought when he reached in
Hi Max, very happy for you. We can see the delight in your face for what you have bought and returned to use, with help from Grandad.
Excellent result. Well done Max and Grandad.
Brilliant bike , brilliant ,video ,and brilliant granddad ,I have had a bad day today ,And now feel a lot better after watching the vid , blessings to you and grandad .❤️
I've worked in the entertainment industry for 30 odd years and I'm amazed at that half decent paint job. Usually it's a quick mask-up and a no-prep blow over.
That's a very good result indeed, Max.
Thank you for these videos, and for including your Grandad who is one very special fella!
love how grandad sits on the jerry can, proper skills !
Well done, I'm glad grandad was there to point you in the right direction 🙂
Your Grandad reminds me of my Dad. Nice to see him having fun. Nice bike too.
I really appreciate that you have rightly dressed for the slide and not for the ride! So many times I have seen people, here in the states , riding with shorts, t-shirts and no helmets!
I love and respect you Max for honouring your Grandad. We need to listen more to our elders and their lives full of wisdom. Excellent that the bike functions so well after your care.👏👏👏🥳
I hope you gave Grandad a ride, he seemed keen for one. Much love to both of you. Enjoy your new bike.
Grandad is always the star of the show!
Excellent video..These were the professional press & dispatch motorcycles of choice when I was working as a press photogrpaher in Paris in the 80's & 90's. I covered the Tour de France & Paris/Roubaix cycle races on the back of one of these.. virtually all the bikes were the same even the 'gendarmes' rode them, although even if I covered hundreds of kms on one, I never got to ride it.... Many had Ohlins shock absorber upgrades.. Looking forward to the next Kermit update..
Your grandad is amazing, great cognitive ability, just somewhat deaf (which I think is mistaken for not being all there). You got a bargain! Glad to see more videos coming through. Thanks.
Cool looking old thing, just got back from holiday and saw a GSX750p police bike in Greece and now I really want one.
I love how interested your grandad is in what you get up to. I’d love to of had that time with my own grandad
That’s so awesome brother! Now you need to gather your camping equipment and head out on a trip! 👍🏻
Good result Granddad. Props for letting Max help.
Dear Grandad. I am enjoying your videos very much. Please tell that young whippersnapper to stop trying to hog the limelight. Lol. Great stuff, Max. A nice quick and easy project. That will serve you well and you know you bought it "right". All the best, Mart.
That's fantastic, a great £800 purchase. That BMW K series sound brings the memories flooding back in of me on the back of dad's K100. Unfortunately it was the bike he was riding in 1989 when some idiot took his life but I'll never have anything but happy memories associated with the bike it was great and he loved it. The K75 is the more bullet proof of the K series, you'll enjoy it.
Happy max Happy grandad and happy BMW 👍🤗🇨🇮
What a bargain Max👍. Well done on taking a punt. A cracking machine
I used JB weld to repair a crack by a freeze plug on a Yale Forklift lasted for years. Good stuff.
Well done, always very impressed by folks who can service their own vehicles properly.
On the numberplate, I've had a front numberplate go through a handful of MOTs held together with white gaffer tape strapping it to a bit of steel behind. The tape didn't encroach on the letters but did just kiss the top of them.
I'd driven it in to a hedge just before an MOT, thought "oops", patched it up, never got round to fixing it until it completely fell to bits.
It didn't hurt the ability for cameras to read the plate either, I know that from accidental Dartford crossing and bus lane fines :D
I love it when a gamble pays off, even if it’s for other people - well, as long as they are nice people!
I've owned a few BMW's,K100rt,K1200rs and an R45.
The K75 is reckoned to be the best of the K series bikes.
The triple is smoooooooth
Yay! 👍
Great that you bike is good to go and that you got it for a bargain price too!
Great work!
Max, hope you’re well mate.
Nice to see the legend that is Grandad, he’s looking well.
Thank you for a great watch and seeing a great plan with you two coming together with a good outcome....I remember being chased a few times by the rozzers with BMW's with the flying brick engines,never a dull moment cheers again.
Glad it was a short project wish mine was as good as that also good to the the abs works!
Love seeing your grandad up and about , He's doing well for his age
Well done Max, what an absolute bargain. It will last for years.
Very nice bike to add to the collection
Congratulations and have fun! Great video, thanks! Cheers to Granddad.
As you may know, the bubbling paint is from gas seeping through due to corrosion inside the tank. That corner is the lowest spot where water collects when sitting with ethanol gas for extended periods of time.
Well made bike love your grandads accent
Great couple of videos on this project. Top notch.
Love watching Granddad helping, best of luck with the BMW
Hi Max - seeing you working on and riding the K75 brought back a lot of happy memories of my 1986 K100RT which was 10 years old when I bought it. I used it for several years on a daily commute of 50 miles through most weathers. As you've found out, its like riding a magic carpet. Sadly, when I retired I no longer needed the bike and sold it after 10 years of ownership. During that time it needed veery little attention other than regular servicing and tyre replacement. Hope you enjoy the K75 as much as I enjoyed my k100RT! Cheers.
Sounds just right. Very nice bike
Nice job well done - these bikes come into their own at 60mph and above - that fairing will allow you to ride all day with comparative ease to a non faired bike - and in the rain its pure pleasure! hopefully yours has the 2 stage heated grips that mean you can ride in cold weather with slim gloves. At low speeds they have a heavy feel but make sure the headstock bearings are not overly tight or notchy as they are a known weakness being small taper rollers and don't last long on speed humps before getting damaged
All my dreams come true- Max reveals his inner Ogri !
Gosh, there's a name I've not seen for a while!
Cracking job max👍i hope you have many pleasant miles with it
What a team!
Well done Max, and Grandad looks the bee's knees in his green footwear. Regards.
Congrats, what a great buy.
Mahle are good oil filters I always use them on my own BMW. Blimey the gloop in the tank though!
That's a nice win - happy days!
Wow you have got a super bick there enjoy and be careful.
I think you'll have this bike for years. Always reliable bmw.
What a great bike Max! Well done to you and Grandad. ATB.
Love bikes those old bricks. It's a Grand Tourer compared to a hot rod. You've probably trebled its value, already. A lick of decent paint and you could double it again.
Well done!!
Great result both of you. Your grandad is amazing.👍🏻👌🏻
A good find and once again fortune favours the brave. You will just have to go KNEE GNAW, KNEE GNAW, KNEE GNAW, under your helmet and pretend.
Congrats!
great video Max. So nice seeing your Grandad involved.
Great job and yes JB weld is so useful - always have it in the shop!
as usual your very thorough , the mot pass being the testament. Great bike
Bonus. You landed on your feet with that one, Max.
I'm surprised that big Max doesn't have his own "livery" colours. It's early days though...Birdy
I'm so pleased that the bike isn't being reassembled in the kitchen, we all know people who did that and couldn't get it out again.
Birrdy
Love this project
Araldite original withstands high temperatures, on small items I set it in the oven at 150 to 200 deg. C. Set like this it is stronger than when allowed to set at room temperature. The Ciba Gigy factory at Duxford in the 1970's used heated preses to make helicopter rotor blades using epoxy and aluminium along with fiber forming a bonded honeycomb structure. I am not sure the factory is still there. I put in a lot of steel work back then at that factory.
Excellent, glad it worked out for you 🍀
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
You got a bargain there and done a good job on it to brilliant!
Very interesting, I've owned an R for over 20 years now and have always fancied a K. In my mind they are still on the edge being in the unloved bracket, thus potential bargains to be had. Ex courier bikes or over loved, now pensioner steeds. Look forward to future content.
Well done great result, load it up with your camping gear and off on adventures, room for the kitchen sink as well
Great work as always, looks like a bargain too. 👍😊
Congratulations on a "New" bike 🙂
Spot on! you can't beat a bargain.
That is a nice bike lucky you
I also use the white reflective tape to aid visibility to other road users
It looks a lot better in all white and Max will be pleased to learn that K75 has more power than a Series 3 Land Rover.
I use JB weld all the time, great product! Bike came out great, all up a fantastic buy.
Lovely bike Max and a bargain 👌
As Granddad said: “Good job!”
Fantastic
cracking good job you + grandad did there, quality bike at a bargain price
you need to weld a "T" onto the battery clamp at the back, to prevent it flying forward in a crash + warming up your nether regions, courtesy of the 12v welding plant...
keep up the excellent work
A great video.
Love your dad
That’s a good purchase 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Looks great without the 5-0 stuff!
Great job on the bike, hope you get lots of pleasure from it.
good work :)
Lovely video Max, but ya need to pick up some workmen's trousers, the ones with the slide in knee pads; your knees will thank you in the long run!
Well done, bit of a result there. I noticed the sign for JHS whilst you were on the bike. They also feature in the 44 Teeth youtube channel that i follow. They seem excellent motorcycle mechanics if you ever need any work done.
Got yerself a keepa there Max.
Nice one. Well done to you and Grandad. Will you be using the paniers that came with the bike?
Yes, it turned out the film company had cut the plastic hinges (presumably to make them easier to paint) so new set of hinges and some WD40 and they're good!
Great job! The battery clamp you created is a bit too short, on 10.59 you can see clearly the nodge on top of the coolant overflow tank, it shoult catch that with a hole in the clamping strip.
I bought an ambulance for a camper conversion and was told that it was illegal to retain any form of the original reflective equipment or any of the blue lamp lenses.
Bike looks 100% better without all that crap stuck on it Max. Don't know why anyone would want to look like a cop anyway! Fantasists? Illness?
great news. Please sell it and put £3.5k in your pocket! I think that we'd all be thrilled.
Paint it Sandglow and use it as a backup support vehicle for Kermit?
That jelly stuff often forms when they use fuel stabiliser incorrectly (I forget whether it's overdosing or under), and that then forms and gucks up the lines and filters, seen it in other videos where people have taken carbs apart on small engines and they're just full of the stuff...
Ah, Keynsham! Spelled K E Y N S H A M. :-)
You should be able to polish the haze out of the wind deflector.
One of the very first bikes ever to have ABS.