The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: balibeemer on November 14, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Title: It's not often.......
Post by: balibeemer on November 14, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

.....that you see something like this. The R 65 LS - 1981, belonging to a friend, has just been FULLY restored here in Bali (by an Italian genius!).
The black R65 (1986) is mine.

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: Adrian on November 15, 2014, 04:45:36 AM

Excellent looking bikes mate - nice piks  ;)

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Post by: Lucky_Lou on November 15, 2014, 06:02:52 AM

Very nice......................
Lou

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: montmil on November 15, 2014, 09:18:46 AM

Both beautiful bikes. I can't imagine the resto difficulties and challenges presented by the location of Bali. Thank goodness for internet resources.
 [smiley=beerchug.gif]

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: nhmaf on November 15, 2014, 04:51:46 PM

Beautiful, and SHINY!!!!!!

Good job to both of you!

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: balibeemer on November 16, 2014, 06:20:01 AM

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Both beautiful bikes. I can't imagine the resto difficulties and challenges presented by the location of Bali. Thank goodness for internet resources.
 [smiley=beerchug.gif]

Actually, thanks to Motobins, it's not that difficult!

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: Tony Smith on November 16, 2014, 02:03:26 PM

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Both beautiful bikes. I can't imagine the resto difficulties and challenges presented by the location of Bali. Thank goodness for internet resources.
 [smiley=beerchug.gif]

Actually he probably has more advantages than disadvantages. labour is cheaper for anything that is farmed out for one thing, and from a recent post is seems to take less time for Balibeemer to get stuff mail order than it takes mine to arrive.

My next door neighbor is an engineer who works in Indonesia coming home for a week or so every couple of months (and therefore the best neighbour we have ever had). He constantly raves about how cheap trades work is in Indonesia.

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: balibeemer on November 16, 2014, 06:52:37 PM

Guys! I re iterate, the work was done by an Italian, who used to be the head mechanic for Rothmans team Honda and Honda African twin  - Paris Dakar. His name is Luciano Bernadini.
No locals involved!
This is the only link I can find on Luciano ( Translated with Google translate)
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvmaxleclub.com%2Fbali09.htm&edit-text=

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: balibeemer on November 16, 2014, 06:55:37 PM

The link didn't work, here's the original in French:
http://vmaxleclub.com/bali09.htm

Title: Re: It's not often.......
Post by: dav on November 21, 2014, 08:51:02 PM

Bloody nice work mate. Two great looking R65's