Oi Bonwick

Can you email me or post the specs of your outfit? Someone I now might
be interested...

 

<falls off chair laughing>

 

BMWK100RS (8v) B reg.
Watsonian chair that I think is an old Palma (1) model.
About 50k miles on the clock (2).
MOT until a week before Chimay whenever that is.
Taxed until sometime this year...

It's a dirty blue colour with the chair being a hand painted variety
and in dire need of sanding down and re-spraying but it is solid with
no obvious repairs to the chair.

Modifications (ha) include the following:

New Hagon rear shock. I went for the sidecar specific shock because of
the weight and the only miles it's done were to the rally and back.
New front brake master cylinder just before the rally.
New BMW heated grips fitted since the rally.
New steering damper.
Wasp leading link forks (3).
Wasp 15" rear wheel with about 1500 miles of wear on the tyre.
Wasp subframe to hold the chair to the bike.

The bike currently has BMW hard panniers and a cheap 25l topbox fitted
so they'd be staying on it. I've got a pile of old MOT certificates
for it and I'd be including the standard forks (4), standard rear
wheel, BMW rear shock, stands, a spare set of yokes with RT handlebars
fitted to them and a couple of spares like throttle cable and fuel
filter.

It needs a new shock fitting to the chair if it's going to be ridden
at speed with a lot of luggage and a passenger in the chair and it
could do with the electrical connecting plug between chair and bike
replacing. The bike's got a decent plug in wiring harness for the
chair lights but the main plug is a bit old and tired.

There a crack on the fairing by the left hand mirror from where the
bike fell over but it's either an easy repair or just leave it gaffer
taped as I've done.

I reckon it owes me just over £2k so in an ideal World that's what I
want but over £1.5k would see it going. If I can't get £1.5k I'll
probably break the outfit, sell the bike on it's own and get more for
it but it's not a bad outfit and it'd be a pity to break it up.

(1) Child/Adult thing.
(2)It started out with a KPH clock on it and I replaced it with a MPH
one showing about 50k. I've got the numbers written down and the
kilometre reading was lower the 50k.
(3)These probably need the dampers replacing but I was going to try
the chair shock first.
(4)One side has a leaky seal so I'd suggest replacing both. The chrome
is unmarked.

 

Watsonian?

 

Wow. Not one of those DIY assisted suicide outfits, is it? Offering a
home delivery service?

 

<bear>
"I have a friend who thinks he may be stout"
</bear>

 

<chair falls off whilst laughing>

 

<snip spec>

Could you please email me a couple of pics to timo at unix dash
consult dot com?

I passed on the specs and he's interested...

 

This is where it goes downhill.

Take his specs off him /before/ he sees the pics.

 

I'll be home tomorrow evening so I'll sort some out over the weekend.

 

Did I try to make it sound as if it was a mint condition outfit in my
description?

I thought I was remarkably honest when I described it as

If someone wanted to spend time tarting it up it could be sold for
over £3k and the total amount spent to do that gloss job would be
under £250 plus time.

 

Photos sent.

In case anyone else is interested they're at

http://www.bonwick.me.uk/bmw/index.html

Don't bother posting saying that it looks a mess because I can walk
out of the back door and have a look at it for myself if I need to
know that.

 

<shuffles in embarrassed fashion>

Actually, I quite like that.

 

I'm only getting rid of it because it takes up too much room and I
wouldn't use it more than two or three times a year.