The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: Altritter on November 11, 2008, 04:31:50 PM

Title: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: Altritter on November 11, 2008, 04:31:50 PM

Check the cover photo of the November 1983 issue of BMWMOA ON, reproduced on page 50 of the new (November) issue of ON.

The first paragraph explains:  "Fast, faster, fastest! That's Dale Cox on the cover astride his R65, caught in the act of trouncing . . ., who are piloting a Suzuki Katana and Honda CBX six-cylinder."

Take that, rice mills!

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: nhmaf on November 11, 2008, 07:29:57 PM

YEah !

The R65 even has a fairing on it too - is that a Rabid Transit, or a Pichler, or ?

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: Ed Miller on November 12, 2008, 02:58:50 PM

An R65 trouncing a CBX???  It must be a really twisty road.

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: donbmw on November 12, 2008, 08:00:57 PM

The fairing looks to be a Hannigan.

Don

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on November 12, 2008, 08:29:16 PM

I'll have to dig that issue out.  That is going WAY back in my kingdom of boxes...

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: Semper Gumby on November 13, 2008, 11:12:03 AM

Can anybody scan a picture of the bike and post here?  I'd love to see the Hannigan on the R65.  (thinking about one you see...)


TTFN,

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: trolle on November 14, 2008, 02:53:11 AM

As one of our more lazy politicians always said to the journalists when they went for him: 'I do not discuss anything I haven't read!' In this case, seen.  ;)

greetings from a rainy, wet, dark and cold north

Title: Re: R65 Blast From the Past!
Post by: nhmaf on November 14, 2008, 05:10:43 PM

I can try to scan it over the weekend, but unfortunately, it is a small (and black &white) picture, so it may not be very good.