The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: SCJJR65 on September 18, 2009, 11:11:11 AM
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For anyone interested in reading the excellent article on the R65 by Clement Salvadori that appeared in the August issue of Rider magazine, I have scanned the article and have saved it as a jpg. file that I will be happy to email to you to read at your leisure. Just send me a personal message with the email address that you would like me to email the article to. It's a great article on the history of our under-appreciated bike, especially for those of you who happen to own a 1979 model! ;)
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John, send one my way .
Rider magazine had an '82 LS in henna red, on the cover of one of their issues back in , oh around '82 or so, it also shared the cover with a red Fokker Tri-plane ( the Red Baron), a timeless photo .
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Me, please.
enigma T 120 at q.com
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It's a good article, with a lot of the positives about the bike, instead of the usual underpowered view, that is so common with this model .
It brings up a good point, about pricing, I bought my '81 in January,1981 for $3295, plus the usual taxes, license fees ......
I had a co-worker buy an '81 Yamaha 650 for $1600, new around the same time .
He couldn't fathom why anyone would pay so much for such a 'slow' motorcycle .
Our paths crossed about 2 years ago, he's now the vice-president of aircraft maintenance for Chautauqua airlines, a regional commuter airline, based in the mid-western US (Columbus,Ohio) .
He asked me what ever happened to that BMW you had back in the early '80's, I told him that I still use it to commute to work, had 80,000 miles at the time .
He couldn't believe that I still had it, and was still using it on a regular basis, his Yamaha crapped out on him three years after he bought it, with 27,000 miles on it .
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...He couldn't believe that I still had it, and was still using it on a regular basis, his Yamaha crapped out on him three years after he bought it, with 27,000 miles on it .
[smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif] 'nuf said. Monte
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He really couldn't believe that I had just put around $2000 into it, for it's first real 'heavy' maintenance cycle .
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Just received your article.
Thanks John
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I remember seeing that magazine cover! Wish that I had kept it, but I must have moved at least 15 or 20 times since 1982, and several bikes have passed through my hands.
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Hi John,
Send one my please!
m082 at comcast dot net
Thanks
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Hi John,
I would like one, as well. r651979 at hotmail dot com
Thanks!
If I ever dig up that '80s copy of Rider, I'll let you guys know. I am a REAL packrat.
Bob, I, too, had the NON-conundrum of purchase price when I bought my '79 in the spring of 1980. $3600 (they dropped the price after the first year...)
I could have had ANY 1000cc Japanese bike for the same money (maybe even a CBX?), but not only would my insurance have been through the roof, but I wouldn't have been as confident of working on it myself. And that was my plan for the next 30 years, or so.
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1981 is when the Japanese manufacturers were 'dumping' bikes in the US market for far less than cost, that's when Hogley-Davidson, got the US government to put a hefty tariff on bikes over 750 cc for about 5 years, so they could 'get their act together', and compete with them .
I had that issue of Rider magazine, up until I moved into my current house (11/94), kinda thought that it was time to get rid of it .
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I have personal junk dating back to Junior-High school days.
I have all my model rocketry order receipts from Estes, just in case I get audited some day.
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Every once in a while, you ask yourself, 'do I really need this s**t anymore', and the answer that I usually get, is that you should have never kept it in the first place !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess I'm a 'minimalist' by nature .
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Every move whittles it down.
Too bad about the sidecar rig, though.
I should have kept that one... ;)
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I regret selling my first bike, a '79 Yamaha XS 400, sold it in August, 1992, after 9 months of unemployment .
If I had known then, that I would have ended up in Phoenix in a year or so, I would have kept it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've no real regrets about leaving the XS750SE behind. It was just a stepping stone to my real BMW.
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I've been searching Craigslist for a similar bike ('79 Yamaha XS 400), and the few that I see, are asking more for it, than I sold mine for in 1992 !!!!!!!!!!!
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Bob -
I had a 1980 XS400 !
I seem to recall that it was a 180 degree twin, not a 360, which should have made it smoother - but it did seem to be pretty buzzy to me. It did seem a pretty reliable little bike, I liked getting 55-60 MPG, too.
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G'day John,
I'll love a copy please, just bought a few books on boxer twins (boxer twin bible & the art of motorcycling: histroy of bmw bikes)...always on the look out for more info :)....
davship at bigpond dot com
cheers...
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Thanks John! Mine came today.
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HI, I'd like a copy of that article. my e-mail is dyerday@roadrunner.com. If I'd kept my first 4 motorcycles, I'd have a nice littlle collection of classics :'( Hondas CB160, CB305, CL305, and the BMWR60/5. But unfortunately I never thought that far into the future. :o
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Thanks John, good read that...2 pages on our beloved R65, we dont get to see or read that every day but i can 8-) ;)
cheers...Davin
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Ill have a copy please PM sent.
ta Lou
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... the art of motorcycling: histroy of bmw bikes..
This magnificent book was a Christmas present to me from my brother this last year. I've read it through three times, so far. Can't imagine just one man owns all those BMWs, takes a few to different events and starts 'em up for whomever asks! I'm happy when one or the other of my R65s start up when I ask.
John, please send me a copy of the article. PM'd you my email addy.
Monte
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I hope everyone who visits the forum gets to read this article! Clement Salvadori is one of the better moto-journalists in the biz today, and I think his assessment of the R65 is spot-on.
I wonder if Justin could put this article on the forum board so anyone could read it? :-?
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Dav,
Can you give me the full names of those books please?
I would like to track them down and purchase.
Thanks
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saw this thread today, please mail me a copy.
FYI I have a German review of the '81 r65 which is very positive and claims that the r65 is a better ride than the Japanese bikes of the same class.
As to being underpowered, yes if you want to do more than 90 mph on the motorway or outrun the average jap at trafficlights, but I have no problems at all outrunning most of the guys I drive with on the small twisty roads.
greetings from a grey north
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here they are Nice one son...great great reads
Davin
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Dav,
Thanks
NOS
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That is a great article. That's one magazine I have a subscription to. I really enjoy Clement Salvadori's articles.
I actually got to meet him. He was at the Autumn Beemer Bash as a speaker. I made sure that I spoke to him and thanked him from all of us for that article. He seems to be a very nice person. He saw my R65 patch that I put on my shirt that I wear at the rallys and thought it was great! It surprised him a little I think.
I finally got a picture of Clem as he was leaving Sunday morning. I still have to download it though. I'll get it posted soon.
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Thanks for the article, John !
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Good stuff, indeed !
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Thanks John, A nice informative article. I remember back in 1979, (I think) when I bought my Suzuki GS850 shaft drive, reading about the new "underpowered" R/65 with it's high price. That was enough to keep me from even taking one for a test ride. :'( But now I'm where I should be on my 83LS [smiley=bmw_smiley.gif]
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This would benefit me... normratscoots@yahoo.com. Thanks.