The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: guitardad on October 21, 2007, 09:17:58 AM

Title: New Owner, old bike
Post by: guitardad on October 21, 2007, 09:17:58 AM

Hey all, just an introduction.  My name is Chaz, and I just bought (last month) a '79 R65.  VaSteve, from over at BMWBMW, sent me here.  I live in Reisterstown, MD, NW of Baltimore.  The R65 - PO told me his name was Hans! - will be my project bike.  Mostly I ride a '94 R1100RS - Clifford, the big red bike.

So I'll be asking lots of questions as the winter goes along.  Be patient with me!

Chaz Fisher

Title: Re: New Owner, old bike
Post by: tagordon on October 21, 2007, 12:06:46 PM

Welcome Chaz,
Show us some pics of the bike as it is now. And tell us your plan for it.
Restore or Cafe or ???
You can count on comments & advise from us. I have learned much in the few months I have been here.
Again welcome to our little corner of the Beemer world.

Troy

Title: Re: New Owner, old bike
Post by: guitardad on October 21, 2007, 06:45:38 PM

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Restore or Cafe or ???

Ah, that's the eternal question, isn't it?  Plan for now is to keep it fairly stock, but "restore" is too strong a word.  Renew, maybe?  This bike spent most of it's life on the West Coast, parked on the streets in Oakland, CA, so it's got a lot of surface rust on the frame, and a lot of paint gone on the engine cases.  But mechanically it's in good shape.  So I think the winter tasks will be to pull the engine and get the frame cleaned up - maybe powdercoated? - and replace all the gaskets in the engine.  It seems to be seeping a little oil from nearly every pore!  Oh, and here's a pic for you....

(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.comcast.net%2F%7Eguitardad%2FR65%2Ftn_IMG_0101.JPG&hash=f1c7e66a4b468ebfbfbf23bbae8e88713caea8ba)