The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: John M on November 21, 2010, 03:57:13 PM
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Here are pictures taken this August just after a 2200 km 5 day ride to from and around Manitoulin Island .
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Very nice indeed !
I do like the tank on the post 85 models.
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Welcome aboard, John. A beautiful bike you have.
I would not have known where Manitoulin Island is located without a peek at your license plate!
Monte
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Manitoulin island is the largest island in a freshwater lake in the world.
The bike has been a pleasure to ride . I am making adjustments and fine tuning details on it (complete carb rebuild this winter, she runs well but rich when I examined plugs) currently 83,000 km on the clock.
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Sharp looking bike ! Welcome aboard!!! We need to get a few more members from Canada in here - the numbers of Australians are growing rapidly!
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And the licence plate still didn't give me a clue as to where Manitoulin island was,
I had to google it instead,
Ontario Canada.
But also I knew Ontario was in Canada, but I needed the map to tell me where.
But hey I went to a technical school for years 7-12 and geography wasn't a separate subject.
thats my excuse and i'm sticking to it.
John
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Nice Hannigan! I want a Hannigan. Perhaps a new year's resolution is in order plus a trip to Paris Arkansas. 8-)
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Welcome John, great forum here! Full of good people and experienced help. Gorgeous bike, looks like she slides easily through the air.
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This Is my first bike with a real fairing . The hannigan is great ,I had it repainted last winter to match the rest of the bike, it was black when I bought the bike. amazingly you stay dry behind the fairing when moving except in a downpour and it makes hi speed highway cruising much more enjoyable.
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That is one really beautiful motorcycle. I do love the Hannigan on it. Putting a windshield on mine made it so much nicer, wonder how a real fairing would be.
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I first saw a Hannigan back in 1976 when Dave Hannigan had a shop in Toronto and he had one of his fairings on his own r69 which had a R90 engine shoe horned into it with a sidecar attached. It impressed me very much at the time and it was a pleasant surprise more than 30 years later when I returned to motorcycling to find my first Bmw with a Hannigan mounted on it. I want to thank everyone for the compliments on the bike,
Best Regards John
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Scotty ,I have been admiring your R65 with side car. How does it perform
with a chair and do you have pictures available of your rig.
Best Regards John
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OMG, its a fairing with an R65 accessory attached!! ;D ;D Seriously, it's a great-looking bike, John. Enjoy!
John
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John to answer your question........It handles nicely, has a modified triple tree for easy steering and with the light weight Steib......excellent handling. It was a little different at first but I quickly got use to it. The sidecar does slow ya down a little. It is a great urban/street bike and super down twisty country roads. I would not take it on the interstate. Have a lot of pictures showing it being built and the end result.... just give me an email address. The sidecar has been tweaked and may have to be again.... stress cracks on the thin metal bottom of the sidecar. I have also been thinking about switching to a Velorex 700. My riders are under ten years of age or over 60.....with a Basset hound thrown in and all have trouble climbing in and out. The 700 windshield folds back for easier access.... maybe. I can’t find anyone with a 700. Also my wife got hit by a wasp riding in the sidecar..was not a happy camper. The 700 gives more wind protection. Quizzing the sidecar group about a possible switch..... I was told not to put anything as ugly as a Velorex 700 on my old R65. If any of you have an opinion/information on the Velorex 700 would be glad to hear it.
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Very nice indeed !
I do like the tank on the post 85 models.
That be one o them new ones then.......nice, welcome does the fairing bring down the mpg?
Lou
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For highway riding I think the mileage is not changed as I can get almost 60 miles per imperial gallon if I don't go above 100kph. I think the fairing may actually benefit me a bit, the whole fairing with mounts weighs around 35 pounds so it is noticeable in low speed handling.
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I do love the Hannigan fairing bullet look. John, I'm in Meaford ON in the snow! I see that the R65 was an R65LS from the rear cowl and the wheels. Maybe we should plan on meeting at a rally somewhere..like the MOA BMW National in Bloomsburg PA or....after the snow stops....24 inches and counting as the wind continues to blow to make it even worse.
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Hi Sue ,I had been wondering whether we might connect at some point since we are not far away from each other. The info about my bike being an ls is confirmed in my registration although I had thought that was a mistake . What are the differences between an ls and a standard R65 (I have only one disc up front ) . Do You know Jim Bromley who I think lives in the Meaford area and owned my R65 one owner before the person I purchased the bike from. I had a serendipitous meeting with him at Walters Falls last august.
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John M - your bike is NOT an "LS" model - the LS models had unique alloy wheels not on any other airhead, the Hans Muth front mini fairing and rear seat cowl, unique seat and were all DUAL rear shock bikes that stopped production in model year 1984 (see my avatar). Your bike is a very nice looking monolever from 1985 or later with the standard wheels, brakes, etc. from the common monolever R80/R65 platform from that period. There were no monolever frame R65LS models, though it is possible that maybe the engine from your bike originated in an LS bike and was transplanted into a later model year frame - that might account for it being registered as an "LS". Don't get me wrong - it IS a very beautiful machine, and one that also likely won't need its valves and valve seats replaced for a long long time, unlike our 1981-1984 bikes.. :(
Then again, registration information at the DMV is OFTEN in error. For example, I just bought a 1979 R100/7 - or at least it was registered as that. However, BMW NEVER made an R100/7 in 1979 - in 1979 the model was called the R100T. Researching the VIN proved that the bike was built in November 1977, which makes it a 1978 model year bike. But, trying to register it as a 1978 bike in my state after the police verified that it was registered as a 1979 bike inthe neighboring state wasn't possible. I was forced to perpetuate the mistake made in the bike's previous state of residence and register the 1978 bike as a 1979, and lie about the model as again, it is an R100/7, but there were NO R100/7 models in the USA in 1979. Ain't bureaucracy fun!!!!
Welcome aboard! :D
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Thanks Nhmaf I had not thought the bike was an an ls but Sue's observation made me question my original thoughts.
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Hi there "scottyintex", if you are interested, I have a BMW R65 with a Velorex 700 sidecar attach, I personally think the bike looks great, but as every owner says: "My bike is the best and yours is ugly...", anyways, if you are interested, I can send you pictures of the whole process on how to attach a sidecar to a BMW R65, important here is that I didn't make any modification to the bike frame, everything is bolted.
If you are still interested, I can make a post with the information.
Best Regards.
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Hi there "scottyintex", if you are interested, I have a BMW R65 with a Velorex 700 sidecar attach, I personally think the bike looks great, but as every owner says: "My bike is the best and yours is ugly...", anyways, if you are interested, I can send you pictures of the whole process on how to attach a sidecar to a BMW R65, important here is that I didn't make any modification to the bike frame, everything is bolted.
If you are still interested, I can make a post with the information.
Best Regards.
Hey Mr. Lurker - Why don't you start a new thread and introduce yourself, along with a couple of pictures of your sidecar rig? :)