The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: DyaniBee on February 14, 2007, 10:32:33 PM
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Hello, all. I just acquired my 1980 R65 about four or five months back. Finally found this forum and after a couple of hours wrangling with a bad internet connection I was finally able to register. Looking forward to fruitful exchanges with you all. :)
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Cool, welcome aboard! Glad you found us and gutted out the bad connection to be with us.
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Welcome in.
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WElcome. It is so nice to have someone representing another part of the world..We are truly becoming a world-wide club!
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Thanks, guys. I am turning 44 this year, a personal trainer by profession but I also moonlight as bassist for a couple of bands and write on occasion for a couple of lifestyle magazines. I first got into motorcycling when I bought a 250cc Chinese cruiser just five years ago and never looked back. One of my clients had the R65 (same one in the picture, with hard luggage and all) and offered to trade with me in exchange for training sessions. :) It had been fully restored to original specs so I didn't need to do anything to it, save for having to replace the throttle cam and cover with parts machined from OEM parts for a newer Beemer (parts can be hard to come by and expensive to obtain from overseas). It works like a charm now except for a starting problem some mornings, but I've gotten the hang of the kickstarter so I'm not too miffed about it yet. Rode it with my wife to the beach for our honeymoon and it behaved quite swimmingly. Riding out again tomorrow for a 200 km. ride around a volcano lake on the way to the beach again and back to Manila for the day... My late Valentine's gift to her. :)
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That is a sweet looking bike you have there, and I can only imagine the wonderful rides you will get to go on in the beautiful Philippines! Color me green with envy!! Looking forward to reading your posts, and hopefully seeing some great photos, too! Welcome aboard! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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Now that's the way to acquire an R65!! (https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smileyhut.com%2Fsports%2Fvictory.gif&hash=e51a2d72675b5d71428db35717688b983cf7466e) Glad you're having a great time and making wonderful memories with your wife. It makes riding so much more enjoyable when you have someone along who enjoys it as well. Welcome and we'd love to see pictures of your beautiful roads there in the Philippines.
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Well, the ride to the beach started out well enough... Great weather and clear roads. About 20 minutes before actually getiing there though, a left hander with a negative camber, and presto... We were on our left side in the dirt, just short of a ditch that would've made it impossible to pull the bike out of should we have been going any faster. Thank heaven Marlette (my wife) was almost completely unharmed... Just a sore hip (she was wearing my body armor). The bike itself was in pretty good shape, just a twisted petcock and a loose rear view mirror. I got the worse end of the deal, a wounded shoulder, elbow and knee plus bruised ribs. Full story here: http://dyanibee.blogs.friendster.com/ramblings/
Will post pictures by the weekend, hopefully. Won't be riding anywhere far for the time being til I get the bike checked, top to bottom, just to be certain.
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I am so sorry to hear about the mishap on your shiny R65 but take heart..you both are alive and will heal for another day's riding. These things happen and will be another good learning experience.
If John from South Carolina is envious of riding in the Phillipines, think how I must feel up here in the frozen north...Canada
keep posting! we love to hear from you!!
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Wow!! :o Glad to hear you and your wife weren't seriously injured!
Absolutely loved reading your blog! Hope it doesn't cost much to get your bike fixed up like new again. I'm still envious of the paradise you get to ride in on a daily basis! Hope you get back out on your bike soon, and post some more pics for us to see! ;)
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Glad to hear you are in relatively good shape after your incident ! I've been down three times in my 28 year riding 'career'. It's something that everyone has to deal with eventually, think of it as a learning experience. Get back on when you are fit to do so, and put alot more kilometers behind you on your fine choice of motorcycles.
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I just read about your crash - so sorry! I am glad it wasn't more serious. I had a similar one last May, but I had the good fortune not to have a passenger. My left shoulder still hurts when I lay on it.
Lucky you that you work out, no doubt you will recover better than flabby me!
The crash: http://www.pbase.com/tomfarr/image/64356224/medium
Me the next night: http://www.pbase.com/tomfarr/image/71415054
Like you, I kept on with my trip (my only injury was a cracked collarbone out at the tip), but this happened in the afternoon of day 1 travel, with a 2nd full day ahead of us! Then the trip back home! Mostly I only needed help getting my leather jacket on and off.
I just watched a movie about one of your neighboring countries, Indonesia.
The Year of Living Dangerously (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086617/) (1982)
A eye-opening movie (I don't know how The Philippines and Indonesia compare, and it was a "period" peice), but the fact that it is an Austrailian production probably explains a lot of it's value.
Well, Sigourney Weaver never hurts, either!
John was right, your blog tells a lot, even if you don't write that much in it. Double-band musician, you have a 2 year-old running around, 15 clients, some lady named Alma bugging you for writing! Keep it up, you won't have time to notice the pain!
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Hola! (so much for Tagalog) Glad you found a good bike, sorry you dropped it, glad it wasn't worse! And I hope for your sake your ribs are just bruised... cracked ribs take a while to heal, and working out before they're done definitely doesn't help.
But I bet you knew that?
Hope to see you around the forum,
Ed
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Welcome to the club !
So sorry to hear about your mishap, but at least it sounds like you, your wife, and the bike will
all be fine in fairly short order, thank goodness ! Your bike looks very nice !
I've never been to the Philippines, but it sounds like a truly wonderful place to visit someday.
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Gosh, I feel so at home here already! Thank you all for your encouraging words. I have for the time being limited my students to only two or three a day and as advised have decided not to work out til fully healed. Worsening pain in my ribs after a full day of work can be very persuasive! :P After two days of full rest I am much better and can laugh at a joke without wincing. ;D
I still get to ride the bike to and from training venues and home as the thing is built like a rock. Only problem is I think the float valve in the left side carb (a flattop Bing) gets stuck sometimes because it floods on occasion. I hope I don't have to open the carbs up...
Are most of you from Canada? I would SO love to ride there. Someday, someday... ;)
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The majority of users are from the US but we have a healthy representation from Canada, England, Australia, and Germany. :)
If after a couple of days you can laugh without wincing then it sounds like you got away with a bruise. I cracked a rib sparring (years ago) and I could barely stand to crawl in and out of the car for a week or so... :P
You should be able to pick up any bits you need to return your bike to "pre boo-boo" condition on e-Bay. AND, since it sounds like it is rideable you can be patient and get whatever you need fairly reasonable. ;)
Thanks to our cuzes 'cross the pond for introducing the term "bits" to my vocabulary, sure is a lot easier/quicker to type than pieces, components, etc! ;D
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OOOOOH CANADAAAAAAA!.... ;)
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Yes, Canada. I'd love to ride there someday too. Someday. I'm going to get my passport soon so I can get back into the US, though. :-?
I want to add my welcome, DyaniBee. I was so sorry to hear about your crash. So glad you are doing better already. Another story to remind me to make sure I wear ATGATT (all the gear all the time).
We're from all over the world and it's great to be able to have you from the Philippines here too. It's fun to be able to talk with so many people from so many places. There is an R65 map that Trolle started online at Frappr where lots of people have added their marker. I can't remember the exact website address. Can anyone help me out here?
Keep us updated on how you are doing.
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Hello again, all. The times I get to log on have been few and far between, but that'll change once I heal up (I'm doing well and healing pretty quickly) and ride again. And speaking of riding again, my wife and I have been invited once more to head for the beach this weekend, the very same ride we had when we crashed. I know I can do it... I've been riding as usual doing my daily commute, short distances to work and back. It's just in my head that things seem kinda iffy. Should we wait?
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How has the commute been feeling, in your head?
Talk to the wife about it, and listen to what she has to say.
Are you healed enough to be able to hold the bike up if, say, you were doing a slow U-turn, and had to stop suddenly, with a passenger on board?
Go for some evening rides two-up before the weekend. See how it feels. See how SHE feels.
Good luck.
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Yeah, I agree with Rob. Talk to your wife, get a feeling for her confidence level regarding being the passenger. (It's almost as important as the driver's!) . Also a couple of brief "laps around the block" wouldn't hurt, either. Maybe even maneuver around in a parking lot to make sure you can guide the bike with your wife on board at slow speeds, to give your own self confidence a boost. If either of you have any doubts or concerns, I'd keep the bike parked and take your car to the beach this weekend.
As you no doubt know, there will always be other trips to the beach! ;)
(Especially where YOU live!) ::)
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I agree with what the guys have said. One thing to remember is now you KNOW about that awkward turn and will be prepared for it. Just have fun with it, but if you're not relaxed it will be stressful and no fun at all. You should know how you feel about it if you do the rounds beforehand with your wife on board.
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Thanks, guys... Great advice, logical and sound. If you remember from my blog, we actually had to ride back from the beach the next morning and had a GLORIOUS ride, with the sun coming up just as we approached the ridge overlooking Taal Volcano lake... Made the whole weekend worth it, warts and all. We did take the turns coming home a bit more gingerly than usual, but other than that the ride was fine and without a hitch. Confidence-wise, we don't have a problem, but we have chosen to postpone our next ride out to the beach until my wounds heal well enough to allow me some swim time. ;) Shorter rides in the meantime will do to satisfy our need to get out on two wheels. :)
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My first post in almost three months!!! :P We finally made a return trip to Matuod beach, the same trip we'd last made out of Manila when we had the accident. It was kinda scary seeing where we'd wiped out last, but the trip was for the most part uneventful... Until we hit the dirt road section heading for the beach house proper from the highway, a 2 kilometer stretch of pretty bad road made worse by two straight days of rain.
Puddles were wide and deep, sometimes two abreadth, leaving little more than a few inches of slippery path above muddy water to traverse on a fully loaded R65 with a passenger. We made it safe enough, but not without a few scares, like when the bike slid sideways a couple of times while passing sloping puddle edges.
After we'd finally arrived, we thought that so long as it didn't rain that night the puddles would at the very least remain unchanged or at best dried up a bit to make passing easier. But guess what? It rained cats, dogs and other four-legged creatures for most of the night! To play it safe, we asked our host for a four-wheeled escort early the next morning (we had to leave early to be with our kids as we usually do as it was Sunday) which my wife would ride while I muscled the bike back to the highway.
In the end we had a beautiful ride back home, albeit with the sun in our eyes for nearly half the way. Our stay at the beach itself was wonderfully relaxing, if a bit tempered by what we were thinking we had to go through for the first part of the trip home. Still, I figure it was something we just had to do. All's well that ends well. :)
Our next plan is to visit and bathe in natural springs near Mt. Makiling, a dormant volcano and a two-hour ride from the city, but this won't happen for another few weeks. Keep you guys posted. :)
P.S. -- The bike's now a bit filthier than when we first started out, but runs as beautifully as ever. What a wonderful machine!
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Hey Dude¨! Welcome! I am curious about this 'Imagine a world without bass' can you be more specific?... do you mean Bass as in fish, Music or that world famous British beer of which I have sampled so often to excess! [smiley=beerchug.gif]
Regards
Dick
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Hey Dick, check out his blog: http://dyanibee.blogs.friendster.com/ramblings/
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Ahhhhhhhhhh! That kind of Bass! Strange though it may seem as well as drinking Bass, I also play Bass and, like da man I favor 4 strings. What is it they say? If your Bass has more than 4 strings you are not a Bass player at all... you are a guitar player. Thats a wicked photo on the blog by the way. [smiley=naughty.gif]
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Another bass player-R65 owner!? What a coincidence. ;D Thanks, man. Yes, I play bass for two bands... A blues band called the Blue Rats and a power pop band called Overdrive. I've pretty much stopped working on the Friendster blog, though. Check out my Multiply site: http://dyanibee.multiply.com/. You'll see more if you're logged in through your own Multiply account. Hope you like it... I only started actively working on it for a couple of days though I've had it for a couple of years. 8-)
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Hi hi,
greetings from the UK. Good blog and glad to hear you didn't get to badly dinged up in the prang.
All the bests
Tony