A Different Ride

[rhpaw]

So I went up to Alaska over the weekend to enjoy the fourth and got to take a little ride down the coast..(about 10 miles) Just enough to get a feel for pop's bike.






Awesome machine. All 25hp. All I heard was,
"DON'T CRASH MY VINTAGE BABY!!!!"

[h2olawyer]

Great looking Beemer!  Definitely one to be proud of.

You're lucky to have a trusting dad!   8)

H₂O

[rhpaw]

-we have visons, we can fix anything.

[Tiger]

 :) Sweet ride... 8)

[Rick G]

I love those old roller bearing crank Beemers. Yours looks great!

[inanecathode]

It's good to have a grounding in reality, as far as "well lol, look how far we've come since then!"

My secret desire is actually a cj750 solo bike... Chinese side valve military bike copied from a 34 bmw r71 :o

[h2olawyer]

A Ural might be easier to find . . .  Besides, you can get 2WD with the sidecar!  The bike is about the same thing as the Chinese version.  The Ural dealer in Pierce, CO had the Chinese version parked next to a Ural & you had to look at the stampings and casting quality to see any difference.  The Ural looked a little more 'finished' (but that's not saying much).   :D

H₂O

[Kojo]

That is a HAWT bike! Love it!

I can hardly convince my dad to take his bike out. (1981 Honda Twinstar, same as mine but almost perfect.)

[funkamongus]

yeah,, looking good.. Ive been riding a 72, 75/5 with a toaster tank.. Nice little rides... My favorite part is seeing the hardcore harley-esque riders get all soft and smiley when they see it and start waving like a kid at a parade! These bikes really bring out the nostalgia in people. My least fave part is I seem to sit on my junk and it goes numb after about an hour.. then I get off the bike and have that pins and needles feeling all over my entire groin.. interesting to say the least!!!

[rhpaw]

So AKVision is so pleased about how this bike came out he's been talking to me about maybe another BMW to ride/ fix..
He's rather partial to an R90/s.. I'm thinking I could cafe/ruin a perfectly good 80's R80 or R100.
We'll see, maybe one will come along.


1976, little rhpaw on akvision's r90/s

[funkamongus]

haha KEWLLLLLL!!!  I like the r90/s too..

[Rick G]

My all time favorite BMW, the R90s . I was service manager at a BMW Yamaha shop in Norwalk CA. in 1973 /74 and loved to test ride them. The boss had one and occasionally, we would go for a company ride and trade bikes. My ride was a Yamaha TX500 and his son had a much modified Yamaha 350.

[akvision]

yup, little rhpaw behind the Lufmeister.  Was a swell bike. Had to sell when I came to Ketchikan.

I often wonder what happened to it..maybe sitting in someone's garage.  It changed my way of thinking about motorcycling.

Looks like it affected rhpaw too.