Ok so I decided to do a little search on this enigmaticca guy... and found out he somehow found a way to erase every google reference on him. I don't even know how you can do that, but he somehow did it.
It was useless of him to do that though, because Bing still can be used
and I found his flickr, his twitter, his instagram and his youtube pages. Those all haven't had updates since July 2017, the same time he stopped posting here... except his youtube, which was used at least as recently as 3 months ago when he uploaded a video.
From that I gather he just wanted to disappear for a while, keeping someone else's property. A shame but I think the K1000 isn't going anywhere else. I don't want to judge the guy, he could be going through a lot of rough things... but that's what it is.