After 10 Years, the Guy Who Started This Thread Returns
Strange, but when I sold my beloved 06 K1200R about a decade ago and left this forum, I never thought I'd be back. But about four or so bikes since that one, I've gotten another! A 2008 model. Tried to log back on with my old username "PrivateAxis" (the guy who started this thread TEN YEARS AGO) but I couldn't because I no longer owned the laptop I used to log on and so have no recollection of my previous password. I tried to reach out to the site administrator, but didn't get a reply, so I re-registered with the same name and added the dopey "2.0".
Because I spent more money on mods and upgrades on that previous K1200R than I ever did on any of my thirty or so motorcycles I've owned since 1982, I vowed I'd leave this bike just as I bought it--with a nice Remus slip-on, a re-useable air filter, and a PowerCommander unit installed--the standard stuff. The 06 was super clean when I bought it in 07 for about $10,000US, but entirely stock, so by the time I sold it a couple of years later, I was into it at least another $15K. And sold it for... $7,500. Ouch, I know. And what's worse, that was after over a year of trying to sell it here in Los Angeles, the supposed motorcycle capitol of the US.
But here I go again. Though I vowed not to spend more than another grand on mods--and it helps that there are next to zero aftermarket goodies still available than there were then--there are still some important bike-specific & universal-fit items available that I add to all my bikes; like CRG bar-end mounted mirrors, R&G sliders all around, and the SoundBlaster 120-Db horn. Not much else though, sadly. And that former forum member Ken's (username "LCW" I think) Evoluzione company has long-since folded is just heartbreaking as that guy was an amazing engineer and fabricator who developed several unique performance parts for the K1200R, including his K1300S air box mod for the K1200R. He was the first person to turn a BMW S1000RR into a naked roadster, long before BMW's S1000 Single "R" came out in 2014. And, amazingly, Ken's creation looked way better than what BMW ended up doing with their S1000R naked superbike.
Anyway, here we go...