FLOODED BMW.

Last November Valencia, a Spanish region, suffered terrible floods, hundreds of people died and thousands of vehicles were trapped under water for days in many subway parking lots or swept away by the raging waters.

I own a BMW R1200C Montauk and just bought another one for spare parts that was underwater for a couple of days.

This is how they found it.




The bike has been in a workshop, I do not know their degree of professionalism, the owner told me that they have been able to start it but there are electrical problems that make the bike can not be used.

As I said I bought it for spare parts because aesthetically it is better than mine.



I drove 800 km with my van to pick up the bike.

When I got home I connected the battery to charge.


After a couple of attempts the bike started although with an unstable idle and some backfiring, it is an injection engine regulated by a Monotronic system.No smoke came out of the exhaust, I rode around the garage and after a couple of braking the ABS warning light went off confirming its correct operation. Well, I paid a price for that bike to dismantle it for spare parts and return the chassis to its owner, if I want to recover it and make it circulate I have to pay the insurance premium that the owner will receive for the loss of the bike.We drew up a contract between the two parties that specified it under penalty of economic sanction for breach of the signed.
 The bike was really promising, but I couldn't understand that after 7 months in a repair shop they couldn't repair the bike completely.I was tempted to try to repair it but it departed from my initial plans which was to renew the chrome on my bike at a low cost in addition to having a whole bike for spare parts. But the definitive argument was the ultimatum given by my wife in the form of a threat to have another bike in the garage... So a couple of weeks ago I set out, in my spare time, to renew my bike while scrapping the flooded bike.


The truth is that it is very battered, so I found the inside of the handlebar controls.




The way the inside of the handlebar is, it doesn't look like it needs the use of counterweights to stabilize it.

I'm putting in a couple of hours a day but honestly, I spend more time cleaning parts than I do disassembling and sorting.

 

Smart to stay with the original plan.. that thing would be a nightmare later on had you tried to circulate it...DAMHIK.

After three weeks spending a couple of hours each day dismantling and sorting parts from a beautiful BMW.
 
And swapping parts with my motorcycle.
 

 This is the final result.
 
  I even took the opportunity to decorate my garage.
 
I can now continue with the assembly of Christine.
 

You can't go wrong with decorating your garage with old m.c. parts.