The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: ipanemaguy on August 27, 2008, 09:59:27 PM

Title: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: ipanemaguy on August 27, 2008, 09:59:27 PM: Hi everyone!,
Looks like I finally found a fellow group of bikers with the same love I have for this gentle, graceful member of the airhead family. Before I got here I lived in Brazil, Colombia, Canada and the USA. I am an engineer by training and have been involved in a career in International Finance for two decades. I speak several languages. I eat everything except organs. I can't stand loud bikes! My personal interests are fishing (worldwide and with everything except dynamite), travel (74 countries in 26 years), reading economic and political history, photography and of course bikes.

I am here because of bikes. Bikes is a broad topic. The type you pedal, I began with Raleigh 3-speeds, then Schwinn 10-speed, Colnago, Kestrel, Waterford and Dean Titanium. The bikes with motors overlapped the ones with pedals. After playing around with a Vespa, a Yamaha Big Bear Scrambler, Montessa Scorpion, Ducati 250 Desmo, Bultaco Pursang, Honda 750 Interceptor and a BMW R80G/S I finally arrived to my fair R65.

I prefer simpler technology - bikes with V-4s, with computers, injectors, where you can't push a pencil up to the eraser in the engine bay because there are so many pipes, cables, finned metal, frame and bodywork in the way don't appeal. The R-series gives me the pleasure of being able to do something for myself. All of the basic maintenance is achievable - and the wrenching part of bike ownership is every bit as pleasurable as the riding.
I also find the camaraderie of the Airhead crowd healthy and something to look forward to.

I look forward to getting to know you all better.
Title: Re: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: trolle on August 28, 2008, 06:33:35 AM: Welcome to our forum.

I hope that you will gain as much knowledge from this forum and spend as many nice hours here as I have done.

Your can always find x solutions to the y problems that look like the problem you have but are quite different when you dig into the matter.

Never the less as a complete stranger to the world of mechanics I have learned a lot about how to maintain my bike and make it a better ride.

greetings from a partly sunny and windy north
trolle
Title: Re: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: nhmaf on August 28, 2008, 11:45:11 AM: Welcome aboard !

Now, all that we need is a girl/woman from Ipanema !
Darn song is running through my head now... :)
Title: Re: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: Justin B. on August 28, 2008, 12:59:46 PM: Welcome, enjoy your stay and visit often. You'll find that everybody that hangs out here are picture junkies so post away...
Title: Re: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: Ed Miller on August 28, 2008, 01:01:36 PM: Welcome aboard.

What happened to your R80G/S?

I have a '90s Rocky Mountain bike....
Title: Re: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: not-so-fast-ed on August 28, 2008, 07:04:01 PM: Welcome aboard.
Post pictures & let us know where you're currently located.
Best,
Ed
Title: Re: I'm glad I found you all!
Post by: SCJJR65 on September 10, 2008, 06:39:59 AM: Yeah, and I'd like to hear about that famous beach in Rio, Ipanema! Especially those "floss" bikinis the babes down there wear! ;)

Woof!!!!