The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Vegasrandall on January 30, 2011, 11:49:24 AM
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There's a great thread on adventure riders
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=453338
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The best one I got when using my R25/2 (with sidecar)was:'did you restore that yourself" - to which I replied "No, it restored itself!"
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There's a great thread on adventure riders
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=453338
177 pages of that crap? No wonder I don't hang out there.
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There's a great thread on adventure riders
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=453338
177 pages of that crap? No wonder I don't hang out there.
I gave up after one page! Adventure riding? Not if you send that much time dorkin' on the compuKer. [smiley=zzz.gif]
Monte
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177 pages of that crap?
I'm a bit tardy in seeing this; it's reached 198 pages now! :o
My favorite dumba$$ question concerns my '66 VW Bug (another boxer!). It sports a vanity license plate "VW-LXVI", and about once annually someone walks up and asks something like, "Neat car—what year is it?" (I consider the plate an IQ indicator.)
Actually, the plate has been the source of one very astute question: "Don't you think that plate is redundant?" I was impressed, for the questioner proved himself to be not only a true Bughead, but also someone who is articulate enough to use the word "redundant."
[It occurs to me that this posting might make sense to American Bugheads only, given the propensity of VW-USA to play games with trim variations on imports here. Explanation: the '66 Bug (at least the US version) carried a unique trim item on its engine bonnet, the metal logo "1300," denoting the approximate displacement (actually 1296, I think). The 1300 was a transitional design in the USA, possibly because of the imposition of the first nationwide emission controls for that model year. It lasted only one year; thus, any Bug with "1300" on its butt had to be a '66.]
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I appreciate the explanation, Altritter. I wouldn't have known that the '66 had a one-year unique feature.
So apparently this one I snapped on my way to work one day was a '66!
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbase.com%2Ftomfarr%2Fimage%2F80536132%2Fmedium.jpg&hash=1666a529574c2d76d17933d2106c190a779a4da5)
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My favorite dumba$$ question concerns my '66 VW Bug (another boxer!). It sports a vanity license plate "VW-LXVI", and about once annually someone walks up and asks something like, "Neat car—what year is it?" (I consider the plate an IQ indicator.)
You think that's bad? My 1928 BMW R52 has a front "pedestrian slicer" license plate, on which, in appropriate Fractur font, is written:
[size=14]BMW R52[/size]
1928 500ccm
The first three questions I routinely get are
1) What make bike is it?
2) What year?
3) How big?
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdarryl.crafty-fox.com%2Fmcpics%2F2008%2FLotM%2Fslides%2FP5035279.JPG&hash=881427f1d2cf710158d9e85c0f2f794bcbce5fec)
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Darryl,
A Luftkoph might answer das dummkoph in Deutsch and perhaps they'll wander off... that lovely cliff just behind the R52. ::)
Monte
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Der Unterschied zwischen Intelligenz und Dummheit ist dass es keine Grenze zur Dummheit gibt.
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Yeah. What Darryl said. [smiley=mad.gif]
Monte
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So apparently this one I snapped on my way to work one day was a '66!
Yep—and that's not all, Rob. Something bothered me about the red Bug that you photographed, so I went out to the garage and checked the bonnet of mine. The "1300" brassard on mine is on the left side of the bonnet, and it slopes upward (left to right).
Two possible explanations for the difference: (1) the brassards might have been dealer-installed items (we know about those, right?); or (2) if the red Bug is a restoration, the person restoring it became confused and mounted it on the opposite side. (Possible, though unlikely, since my insignia has lugs that fit through holes drilled through the bonnet.) I'm reasonably confident that mine is in its original position, for I bought the car from my (now former) in-laws in El Paso in 1978, and I know the insignia went back to its original location after restoration in '94-'95.
BTW, the red Bug is a nice one. If it's unrestored, it's special, and if it has been re-done, it appears to be a good job. I just looked at the photo again, and I think it's a restoration—the weltings between fenders and body appear to be (painted) red. All of the original welting supposedly was the same color, irrespective of the color of the car itself. Might have been gray, I can't remember. Fanatical restorers tried to get the original welting. I didn't fight the problem; I went for the California look with black welting and black gaskets on windshield and rear and rear-seat windows. The metal was repainted the factory Bahama Blue (very light blue that looks green in certain light, a color that reappeared as "Aquarian Blue" on the 2004-2005 New Beetle).
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My favorite dumba$$ question concerns my '66 VW Bug (another boxer!). It sports a vanity license plate "VW-LXVI", and about once annually someone walks up and asks something like, "Neat car—what year is it?" (I consider the plate an IQ indicator.)
You think that's bad? My 1928 BMW R52 has a front "pedestrian slicer" license plate, on which, in appropriate Fractur font, is written:
[size=14]BMW R52[/size]
1928 500ccm
The first three questions I routinely get are
1) What make bike is it?
2) What year?
3) How big?
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdarryl.crafty-fox.com%2Fmcpics%2F2008%2FLotM%2Fslides%2FP5035279.JPG&hash=881427f1d2cf710158d9e85c0f2f794bcbce5fec)
sorry ot....
Darryl, i was scanning the pages of The Vintagent & came across this
http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/search/label/legend%20of%20the%20motorcycle
(scroll 3/4 down the page)
Ive been meaning to post this up for a while (but keep forgetting) but after seeing your stunning pic of your stunning R52 i just had to.
Stunning bike Darryl.
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Yep—and that's not all, Rob. Something bothered me about the red Bug that you photographed, so I went out to the garage and checked the bonnet of mine. The "1300" brassard on mine is on the left side of the bonnet, and it slopes upward (left to right).
Here is the link to that picture (http://www.pbase.com/tomfarr/image/80536132) so you can see more detail. It was shot through my windshield, so it is not the best.
And when you said blue, you reminded me of this one I shot in 2006. Click on the picture for the full gallery:
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbase.com%2Ftomfarr%2Fimage%2F133517766%2Fmedium.jpg&hash=446b3247b5f9b827d53ca0bded5f8232fe7e318b) (http://www.pbase.com/tomfarr/blue)
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Darryl, i was scanning the pages of The Vintagent & came across this
http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/search/label/legend%20of%20the%20motorcycle
(scroll 3/4 down the page)
Pretty cool dav - and Darryl!
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Yep, that's me! The R52 is a sweet bike, it always starts so easily. Driving it is a pretty different experience, the controls are pretty much completely unlike a modern bike. I would say, though, that you can feel the familial resemblance to a modern BMW, even if there's nothing much similar between them other than the general layout of things.
I've ridden the R52 over 2,000 miles, which included being the oldest bike by far on the Sunday ride at that Legends Show.
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And when you said blue, you reminded me of this one I shot in 2006.
That one appears to be a restoration, also. However, the color is clearly blue, as in [US Army] Infantry Blue, or [University of North Carolina Tarheel] Carolina Blue. I think something like that shade of blue was on '67 or '68 Bugs. The "Bahama Blau" of my '66 Bug (and, IMHO, the "Aquarian Blue" of the New Beetles) is lighter, and has some green in it. Artists might call mine "aquamarine"; I don't know whether that would be correct. Mine is lighter than "turquoise", which is what the Bug in the photo comes close to being.
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Fort Benning Blue!
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Stupid questions:
Sorry for the politics but it was such a clever turn I couldn't help myself.
1) Picture of our president on a bumper sticker. (But it could have been ANY of THEM).
2) Below written " Does this @ss make my car look fat?"
My apologies..nomex suit is now ON. :o
[smiley=flamethrowingsmiley.gif]
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A while ago I parked my R65 in Dover (the Channel port and a slightly rufty-tufty town) -- a couple of boys about 12 came to have a look and one asked: "why has it got sparklies on the sides?"
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A while ago I parked my R65 in Dover (the Channel port and a slightly rufty-tufty town) -- a couple of boys about 12 came to have a look and one asked: "why has it got sparklies on the sides?"
"sparklies" - those are spark plugs, right?
I remember a couple of years ago someone, either here or on Boxerworks was complaining how they more than once lost the ceramic insulator on their spark plugs to thieves that use them for consuming crack, or was it meth? But you get the idea. I think it was happening in New York City.
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I remember a couple of years ago someone, either here or on Boxerworks was complaining how they more than once lost the ceramic insulator on their spark plugs to thieves that use them for consuming crack, or was it meth?
Had it been in Europe in the mid-70s, it might have been hash. I recall that the heads in the US Army would rip off just about any metallic bowl-shaped part with a stem on it and use the object as a hash pipe. (I understand that hash burns very hot, and tends to burn up a conventional tobacco pipe.) The vehicle mechanics got very angry because the heads would cut the wire screens out of vehicles' fuel filler pipes and use the screens as heat sinks in their hash pipes. It was small comfort to anyone having to repair the vehicles to suspect that the head using the screen was likely poisoning himself from the fumes coming off the hot screen. (It's possible that those screens had absorbed ethyl lead from the petrol.)