The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: ScottColumbus on December 04, 2006, 02:29:39 PM
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Hi folks,
I would like to introduce myself. I followed the invitation of your member MrRiden and would like to join your forum. My name is Dirk, I´m 40 years old and live in North Germany, near Hamburg, were I work as a HR manager. I´m married and have 2 children (6 and 9 years old).
Rich (MrRiden) told us in the german forum for BMW R65, called " Kleine-Boxer-Forum (http://kleine-boxer.redeker.net/ftopic3392.html) from you and the BMW-community in the United States. That made me and my comrade Stefan (alias Kuzzimuzzi, which you already know) curious. So I came to you, too.
I ride a `81 BMW R 65. This motorcycle is also driven by my wife.
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In addition I have an old `75 BMW R 75/6. In former times it was a green-white police bike.
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[size=9]No, the Stang belongs to a friend of mine. :([/size]
At present I try to restore a Russian KMZ K750. It´s a copy of the pre-war BMW R 71.
I`ve bought it in that condition. It has been running in Latvia until this spring:
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This picture was taken in november:
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I´ve read many threads in your forum. It´s very interesting that you give your bikes german female names like „Britta “ ;D
We do exactly the same with our Russian motorcycles, like Olga or Svetlana. :-*
Have fun
Regards
Dirk
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Welcome Dirk!
I really like the chrome headlight protector on your R65. Is it a straight fit on from an old /2? It really gives the bike a very classic look! Love it.
Your restoration project is beautiful as well. It reminds me of the old /2s as well.
Welcome aboard and hope you contribute often. :)
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Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoy our little corner of the universe... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] A very nice herd of "cows" you have there! ;)
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I think if one is looking for a colour to paint a Bronco Brown R65 that your pic will convince them that black with white pinstripes is georgeous. Well done on all your bikes.
Welcome..great to have an international community here!
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Welcome Dirk!
Those are beautiful bikes. You have certainly done a lot of work. I love the black with white pinstripes. I have an '83 and it has the original white and red pinstriping on black. I keep thinking that I will change the color to blue, but the black is such a classic look. It is nice to see such well cared for bikes.
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Welcome, Dirk! Glad to have you aboard!
Yeah, I'm the idiot with a bike named "Britta" ;D
I usually named most of my bikes, but especially the BMWs I have owned. Back in 1997, I had another R65 (a nice 1981 model) before I got Britta, which I named "Bruno". I regretted ever selling her. (She only had 26,000 miles on her!) Next year, I plan on purchasing a R1200C Classic cruiser (my dream bike), which I plan on naming "Sabine". I'll hang on to Britta, though, and give her some well deserved time off. Britta currrently has a little over 138,000 miles on her, and deserves to enjoy her "golden years". ;)
Hope to see your posts here more often in the future!
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Dirk,
Glad you found us! I really like the detail touches on your R65, the headlamp guard and signals. You mentioned having a police bike. I'm curious about the R65RT. I've never seen one here and can find only a few pictures on the net. Where these employed as police bikes? I'd like to find one to double my collection.
Rich
http:// http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/photos/photophotos/R65RT%20(2).jpg
http:// http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/photos/photophotos/R65RT%20adv.jpg
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Hi alltogether,
thanx for your friendly welcome. :)
I´m glad, that there are so many friends of the small BMW-Boxers so far from home. ;)
@msbuck: My headlight protector is a new one. The old /2 BMWs are very rare, even in Germany. There is a restaurator near our home. He sells this old bikes. Sometimes you find /2 spare parts there. His garage is cleaner as a hospital:
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@Justin B.: Is it possible, that you´ve just introduced the term "cow" to the new world?!? ;) ;D
@msbuck, suecanada, Melena: In the German Kleine-Boxer-Forum we have round about 1000 members. But only a view Ladies have signed up (my wife Sybille is one of them). I´m pleased, that there are so many women in this forum. I wish there were more female members in Germany. :'(
@SCJJR65: Oh no, you´re not an idiot because of calling your bike "Britta". It´s absolutely ok. :) It´s much better than Bruno, because the heavy artillery guns of the German WWII battleships were called "Bruno". ::) ;) In my opinion a motorcycle must have a traditional female name. So Britta and Sabine fit absolutely. :)
@MrRiden: Yes, you are right, the R65 RT is very rare. A comrade from the Kleine-Boxer-Forum rides that cow. I know that it was sold to the German and French police.
On this picture you can see Tekin, the owner of the police-cow. He´s standing next to my wife.
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His bike. I´m not quite sure, but I think it´s called R65 tic
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This photo was taken at the meeting of some members of the Kleine-Boxer-Forum in 2006:
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And that unlucky guy in the background, that´s me. I caused all that terrible damage. :-X On that day I was hung, drowned and quartered. :o
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Dirk
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Ouch, like dominoes! You guys must have a much more populated forum than this one, that's a lot of bikes. Does the Boxerworks phorum even get that many together in a group?
Welcome to this forum and we hope you enjoy it!
You won't like the name for my bike. I don't usually name vehicles, but I finally decided to call it the Black Pearl. I need a Jolly Roger, I guess.
"...the flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing!"
Ed
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Wow, Dirk!! :o Absolutely wonderful photos! Especially the ones of the guy's restoration garage! I would give anything to have a place like that to work on bikes!!! Please don't stop posting these fascinating photos!!!
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Yes, Great Photos! We had a guy in our local BMW club that did the same thing you did. His nickname now is "Domino".
It wasn't a pretty picture! Those /2s are beautiful!! I'll have to show my hubby those pics so he can drool as well...
We actually have a fair number of women riders in our local BMW club. We had a few that stepped up early and started riding our own back in the early 80s. We then organized a "LOCO" Ladies Only Camp Out where we encouraged each other. And our numbers grew quickly. It's great to have fellow female riders around to share experiences. I think it is different for us than for the males.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for your interests and compliments. :)
The /2 is the first 2-Cyl-motorcycle made by BMW after the war. It´s nearly the same than the pre-war BMW R71. The main difference is the engine. The R71 doesn´t have overhead valves. This engine is called "Seitenventiler" (side-valves). This one is the R71:
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This engine was so famous, that even Harley-Davidson copied it in the 40th.
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I would like to buy a BMW R71, but I can´t afford it. :'(
The cheapest alternative to the R71 is the russian K750. I´ve paid 650,-$ for it. Millions of them were built and spare parts are cheap. The only disadvantage of the russian bikes is the unbelievale awful quality of the russian material. :-/
On these picture you can see my russian monster:
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At least there are photos from a biker meeting point at a ferry at river Elbe. My wife an I often ride there after work. There you can meet really old guys with really old cows. :)
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Dirk
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Those are great photos of your Russian "Monster", Dirk! Fantastic!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
I lived in a small town in SC by the name of Abbeville in 1999-2000, and while I was there, there was a small motorcycle shop in town that just happened to be the east coast distributor for Ural motorcycles! He had about a dozen of them in his shop, some with sidecars. Really cool looking machines! I wish I could have afforded to buy one back then!
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John, If you're really interested in the Urals, there is still a dealer in Rock Hill, SC - Hager Cycle World. :)
Willville (my favorite MC only campground in Virginia!) has an annual gathering of Urals. They are true enthusiasts.
Dirk, I LOVE the look of the old /2s. And now I've learned something new about the "Seitenventiler". I would love to own a nice restored /2 that I felt good about actually riding. I wouldn't have any trouble reaching the ground on one of those! There's a fellow in the Charlotte BMW club that still rides his /2. (At least the last time I saw him he was.)
Thanks for sharing all the wonderful photos! Never knew Harley did a copy of a BMW, either...
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:) Beautiful pictures. Great description. Thank you very much.
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Dirk,
You are quite excellent in photography, and even in better restorations work on those classic motorbikes !
Welcome aboard, we are very glad to have you join us !
You've inspired me to go back into my garage this week and try to get my 1982 R65LS
running again (or at least diagnose what fell apart in the transmission) !
-Mike
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Moin, moin,
as we say in North Germany ;D
Thank you very much for the flowers. ;)
I really do know, that this is a forum for BMW R 45/65. So I promise, that this is my last posting about russian bikes. :o
As I said, the old BMWs are rare and expensive, especially the motorcycles with sidcar. The same type of motorcycle, built in Russia, is very cheap.
There is some kind of russian scrapyard in Germany, close to Berlin and near the Polish border. I´ve found this place in summer, while I was on the road for a business travel. It was so attractive for me, that I always get back there (with tears in my eyes), when I´m in Berlin. You can get 1 bike with sidecar for 600,-$ oder 3 bikes for 1500,-$.
Here are some photos from the scrapyard. Can you imagine how it smells there, when it´s very hot outside? For me it´s great! :)
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This motorcycle is also sold in the United States. I found this one on ebay.com
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In Germany there are some dealers, that restore those Seitenventiler and sell them for about 5.000,-$. They look great, like new ones. 8-)
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They look like BMW´s, but they aren´t.
@Aida (I´m sorry, I don´t get the second point onto the i): They come close to your loved /2, don´t they?)
If you want to hear, how the Seitenventiler sounds, check this. But before, take the children out. 8-)
http://www.redeker.net/r45/Seitenventiler.wav
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Dirk
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Those are neat, Dirk! [smiley=thumbup.gif]
The sound link was good, too! Even the children enjoyed it. ;)
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Those are some pics, Dirk! Like a Beemer graveyard, except like you said, those aren't Beemers lying around in various stages of disrepair! I, for one, would sure like to have one of those "restored" bikes in MY garage! ;)
Thanks SO much for sharing these photos with us here in the "States!" [smiley=dankk2.gif]
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Boy Dirk, I really enjoyed those photos!! Maybe I should contemplate a trip into Europe and beyond????
Thank you very much!
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Hi Sue,
yes, come here. :) I´m sure you will enjoy it.
Altough I have never been there, I think Russia is also a fascinating country, too. This is the transsibirian Route 66:
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(c) by Stefan Kuzzimuzzi (http://suraklyn.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?action=viewprofile;username=Kuzzimuzzi)
I must confess that I´m very curious to know, how you all live and how your beemers (is that the correct expression?) look.
I would be glad to see your photos, if it is possible.
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Dirk
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Hi Diërk,
really important to stress that the eBay pics (http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/97/4118197/1024_6265626631316336.jpg) you showed are fraudulent in the first degree! I read in another forum that the auction-winners payed the fee (whole heap of money!) and never saw it back (and neither a motorcycle...). Very annoying! >:(
...concernig the two dots on the "I" in Aïda: the hotkey is Alt+0239 on the numpad or choose "charmap.exe" and copy&paste the desired character. 8-)
cu, Stefan
...like so:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmitglied.lycos.de%2Fgreengrocer%2Fcharmap2.jpg&hash=f524617ddeb10220dd5b057a43d592988eb2ca83)
::)
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[smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
I would be glad to see your photos, if it is possible.
...by the way:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmitglied.lycos.de%2Fgreengrocer%2FWhsn_Sybille_Dirk2b.jpg&hash=31f95002af3e478528ea75373748a17e8e4c05aa)
regards, Stefan (awaiting your revenge :o)
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Re: the pictures of Russia - at least they have the trees out of the way!
Re: pictures of me and my ride - please click on the WWW at the bottom of my posts for my pBase photo web pages.
Oh, and Stefan, that is a fine picture of you! Made finer with the pretty young lady standing with you. Is that your daughter? ;)
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Well, Stefan, you've taught me something new as well. I use "ALT+139" to get my ï . I'll have to try it the other way as well. Let's see... ï . That one works, too! I'll also check out the charmap.exe.
Is it Diërk or Dirk? (What's the hotkey for the ë?)
Thanks for the sound bite! And from the pictures of the transsiberian does not make me want to travel there!
Here's some pics of my bike - looks a lot like yours!
This is me and my hubby, Graham, on our wedding day back in 1995.
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi129.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp210%2Fcabcgec%2FMotorcycles%2FGA081395crop.jpg&hash=9241499ec4c244e1da97a5e098460c5d8bfa3d13)
This is us loaded up on a cross country trip out west. This happens to be at a campground in Glacier National Park. My husband rides a 1981 R100 he bought new. Mine is a 1984 R65 I bought in 1992 with 52 miles on it. We use tank covers to protect then when we're all loaded down for travel.
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi129.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp210%2Fcabcgec%2FMotorcycles%2F62043_03.jpg&hash=97d62306e9331e8f8a76b53f31dd7012ae1b8951)
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Moin, moin,
great pictures! Thanx for showing them. :)
@Rob: I´ve checked your album. I like your photos. Especially this one:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fct.pbase.com%2Fg4%2F05%2F677405%2F2%2F65416600.lHysG9Z4.jpg&hash=9cb6cb76b7ebd2e4c6f6c3f92e19eed83af24202)
What can you see if you stand close to the wall, at Veteran´s Overlook?
There is another very interesting picture in your album. What did you do to your cow, that it´s lying on the grass? :-?
In the url I´ve read the name "Tomfarr". Is this you?
And if yes, are you this, too? http://kleine-boxer.redeker.net/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=420
By the way: the "young Lady" you mentioned, which is standing next to ME :) is my wife Sybille.
Stefan "the little devil" Kuzzimuzzi is the guy in front with the cigarette. I suppose it was his complete breakfast that morning :) ;D ;) :P
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fphoto.redeker.net%2Fphoto.php%3Ffile%3D%2FWitzenhausen%25202006%2FDries%2FFreitag%2520-%2520Samstag%2F06_Witzenhausen_017.jpg&hash=96cea716b7e53292be03137be5e10ef842a0e3b7)
@Aïda ;): Thanx for sharing your pics. Your husband and you have bought new or nearly new BMWs and haven´t sold them through all the years? Absolutely great. I would call that faithfully. You should get the BMW-medal for that. ;)
@John: You mentioned that your "Britta" has run aver 138.000 miles. Thats´s great. Especially for a 650ccm engine. Is this her first engine? Have you been forced to change pistons, cylinders or parts of them? And what´s about the transmission? Did it work correctly all the time? If yes, Britta should get a 1st class BMW-medal, too. And if not, too!
@Mike: Did you solve your trouble with your transmission? What was the problem? By the way: For me it seems that there are running more LS in the States than "normal" R65. Is that correct? In Germany the R 65 LS is very rare. I only know a handfull of guys that ride an LS.
cu
Dirk
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Dirk,
The view below Veteran's Overlook is a large valley. It was my first time there, and was not so impressed as to take a photo...
The photo of poor cow lying in the grass - it has a caption beneath it telling the story. Just me being stupid. I have a picture of myself later that weekend without my shirt. I'll add that presently. Not pretty.
(edit) I have added it. You can see it by clicking here (http://www.pbase.com/tomfarr/image/71415054)...if you have the nerve!
Yes, I am registered on Kleineboxer as tomfarr. I was very excited when I first discovered it. I will try to come back, but I feel self-conscious because I don't speak any German. You have a wonderful photo gallery there! Did you see the sticker on my saddlebag in the Veteran's Overlook picture? You should be proud. It is the first sticker I have ever put on my bike!
My thread I started last May: http://kleine-boxer.redeker.net/viewtopic.php?t=2777&highlight=
Does your wife have a sister? ::)
Do you-all drink beer with your breakfast, as well?
It is fun to go back to the Kleineboxer forum and see the now familiar names!
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Dirk,
I wish WE had a junk yard like that around here! Only ones around her only full of Jap bikes... :(
My wife, Barbara, rides this:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwebpages.charter.net%2Fjbowser%2Fpics%2F84%2520R65%2F10010021.jpg&hash=4776b67730ea86ee9844b6918d2dbfc1e0184f51)
I ride this when the temperatures are cool:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwebpages.charter.net%2Fjbowser%2Fpics%2F95%2520R100RT%2F95%2520R100RT%2520left.jpg&hash=f10b0cafe1a3276c03e42e0aee02ffaec3710bfe)
I ride this when it's hot:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwebpages.charter.net%2Fjbowser%2Fpics%2F81%2520R100RT%2F81%2520RT%2520-%2520Finished%2520003.jpg&hash=a8d7f7138eabf3d3ec7305f39bfb3143e4cbf239)
I have enjoyed looking at your pics and glad I don't have to ride on any Russian roads... ;)
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Good morning,
@Aïda: when you open this "charmap.exe" you can see the ASCII-Codes resp. Hotkeys for each character in the lower left and right corners, when you highlight the specific char. ;)
I like your wedding photo very much. There is one member in the german board (who does not participate in here yet), I'd like to see in this manner (for Dirk: he is a teacher and great craftsman. D'you know whom I think of...?).
@Rob: definitely no. Drinking beer for breakfast is not more a common habit over here than it is overseas. But in some regions (where our beemer-cycles originally derive from) beer is not seen as an alcoholic drink but as a basic-food. And (so I was told) in certain working places they are allowed to have one small beer together with their lunch during the lunch-break. I personally had an experience in a Diner in Nurnberg where I ordered a small beer together with my meal. The waitress showed up with a 500ccm flower-vase. I told her, I'd rather wanted a small one. She replied drily: "Des is a kloanes. Haettst a normales Bier bestellt, haett i Dia a Mass g'bracht" ("this is a small one. If you had ordered a regular size, I'd brought one Liter") :D
please note that the drinking vessel in front of me on the pic is a cup and it contains coffee :). The beer on the tables are remainders from the previous night.
@Dirk: Did you know Joni Mitchell? She is a canadian singer/songwriter who also performed in Woodstock ("big yellow Taxi (http://www.bobdylanroots.com/bigyellow.html)") ;D
best wishes, Stefan
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Dirk,
Yep. that's Rob's profile you found on the KleineBoxer forum! I'd recognize that profile anywhere! ;D
I had one on there, too, at one time. It probably got deleted by now, though.
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Hi John,
I think I know what had happened to your membership at the Kleine-Boxer-Forum. During the last month we have had a lot of "spam-registrations", caused by PCs. These users looked similar. The nicknames had nothing to do with motorcycles, and they were not human names, only numbers and letters. In the user profile there was no information like name, hobbies, profession or location saved. There was only a link to a website, mostly merchandising. Those users have never posted in the forum. They all got an e-mail from the Admin, which most of them didn´t reply. So the Admin deleted them. Maybe he thought, that you were one of those unreal "spam-users" ::).
Now we have a different procedure to for registration. You have to answer a question:
Which one of those is a planet?
America, earth, cat, university
It sounds easily, but no machine is able to crack that code. It´s the Enigma of the Kleine-Boxer-Forum. ;)
So - if you like, John - try it again. I would be glad to have you aboard in our forum
cu
Dirk
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AMERICA!
Hey wait, I'm not a spa
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Dirk,
Perhaps that's what happened to my profile. I'll give registration at Kleineboxer.de another try!
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Hi alltogether,
as requested, her are some pics of a of a cow ride with some members of the Kleine-Boxer-Forum.
We met Skipper, a naval officer. It was his last day in the Bundesmarine. Was was retired after 35 years. It was his wish to be accompanied by a BMW-escort out of the base.
That`s him:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3462316135616662.jpg&hash=f387af8d00906da75736f560a163a8262cb53614)
We offered him a motorcycle with a sidecar, but we didn´t manage to organize a BMW. He had the choice between a Moto Guzzi and a Ural. But - as a real soldier - he refused to use a russian bike. ::)
Just in the barracks, in front of all the officers, the right carb of my wifes R65 began to menstruate. :o
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3132313331646538.jpg&hash=ca7e17015bb6061d52cd77ec92e78cd3327fe7f8)
That was very embarassing, and we immediatley changed the float needle.
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6363303766633237.jpg&hash=cfd9bb9605b1da28518dfa39c8859d1cee5efa84)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3437653337303934.jpg&hash=bc730e618e4c4dbf4a4922d8abe653010ecdc3a8)
Afterwards we rode to the BMW restorer, of which I had already told you.
Her are some more pics of his garage:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6238363038383865.jpg&hash=d67bef9e356bb36bbd03e6c8a982fd4991700cca)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6134336639366536.jpg&hash=6859356dd0215611d01db1642887a51ac22d0257)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3431326437623466.jpg&hash=ba807c2f661100920bb0de44d8d9f1e65dfadb99)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3432636430316331.jpg&hash=2e6b3ba260b2d3a046737902d74c59d27ca29063)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6463623761386531.jpg&hash=6ab7a690bb9aca599b5e833b6420e6673406d65f)
After that we rode back to the port city of hamburg. Here you can see us having a break at River Elbe. In the foreground thats my wife Sybille.
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3862653339383637.jpg&hash=bae25c14fd9a7f43a09a0ab4e63bec2bb089c19e)
In the port of Hamburg there is a Russian submarine. It´s a museum.
This Submarine is a meeting point for russian sidecar bikers.
We BMW-riders met them over there in peacefully coexistance. :)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3438646639313532.jpg&hash=6b1e3d3204f26b2f33dc2baf0bb83392dd6d3945)
This is the submarine.....
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3861643564373232.jpg&hash=e425946f1dbef05414717110ac66fae57c98ae70)
And these are the Urals and Dneprs. They look great, don´t they?
Some of them look like Wehrmachts-BMWs
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6138663435656531.jpg&hash=0ab7b65f183ae4eda8547973b4b49ec823c3ba9e)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3665343162623862.jpg&hash=2cb0bcf4fd0d90174b4eb5aaa0bb2d865b3a0f80)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6132343732656130.jpg&hash=53ef60b4a716a5f8feaf4930d2d405d13f203ed0)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3732376434346339.jpg&hash=a47e79e586c100a3200cb7b0350631c529ada61f)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3664616639303364.jpg&hash=eb7f2bb7b25da644049d40414699d2a7fd2afbb6)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6639643935646665.jpg&hash=0fa089fc145b42e41dfbb3faf754467afe70ae12)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3461613766323536.jpg&hash=a55e3506990cc2d02ed72f9924a01059db05336c)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3663393461386136.jpg&hash=99cc8ba72aef38e341f3db0929f0d5478c9ee120)
This guy I met on the motorway. He lost his motor cover. That´s improvisation, isn´t it?
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6466316633376438.jpg&hash=6e17288ffa181a28899bd768f1fbae7bf3fd3ee7)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_6230363262306137.jpg&hash=c249a2b540b4d7ec77be762ea98596885353538e)
And this guy, that´s me. ;D
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffoto.arcor-online.net%2Fpalb%2Falben%2F97%2F4118197%2F1024_3135636230333563.jpg&hash=4a8a1ba3e05645aeb002220595ed6f321b0107ba)
I hope, the pictures please you. :)
Have a nice time.
Dirk
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Wow, Dirk, those are some first class photos! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] And I got a real laugh out of your line you had of the pic of your wife's bike "menstruating"!! [smiley=laugh.gif]
Are these recent photos you've taken? You and your wife must get to ride a lot!
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Very nice pictures, Dirk. Thank you for showing those to us. I love seeing all those old bikes. And the guy that does all the restorations - what a shop he has!!!!! Beautiful bikes and a beautiful shop.
Your wife's bike did what my bike does now and then. :-[ It hasn't leaked out of the right carb in awhile, but I'm better at remembering to turn of the fuel petcock when I stop now. This winter (after the Christmas holidays) I will rebuild the carbs and hopefully not have that problem again.
I don't mind at all that you post all these pictures. [smiley=happy.gif]