The member photo gallery is now integrated and live!!  All user albums and pictures have been ported from old gallery.


To register send an e-mail to admin@bmwr65.org and provide your location and desired user name.

« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Hi from Surrey BC  (Read 1743 times)

Doughboy_1

  • Guest
Hi from Surrey BC
« on: August 14, 2015, 10:20:41 AM »
Hi there, I'm new to the motorcycle community and just recently purchased an r65. It didn't run well when I picked it up, but rebuilt the carbs/ did a valve adjust,  and now running great!!! Hope to spend the rest of the summer and fall putting on some miles...

Karl.
« Last Edit: August 14, 2015, 11:42:57 AM by Doughboy_1 »
Logged

Offline Oconner

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 68
  • Sunny So Cal.
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2015, 01:13:56 PM »
Welcome!!! Post some pictures of your bike. :D
Logged
'82 r65LS
'72 Honda CL 350
'13 FZ6R

Offline montmil

  • Mt. Olympus Resident
  • ****
  • Posts: 8371
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2015, 01:50:20 PM »
We love photos of member R65s. Keeps the inmates calmer... a wee bit

What vintage R65? Standard or LS? So many questions...
Logged
Monte Miller
Denton, TEXAS
1978 BMW R100S
1981 BMW R65
1983 BMW R65
1995 Triumph Trophy
1986 VW Cabriolet

Doughboy_1

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2015, 02:40:43 PM »
I will post asap, but for some reason my first attempts show bike upside down... It is a 1984, standard not LS.
Logged

Doughboy_1

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2015, 02:47:05 PM »
Hopefully not upside down.
« Last Edit: August 14, 2015, 03:10:22 PM by Doughboy_1 »
Logged

Offline Tony Smith

  • Mt. Olympus Resident
  • ****
  • Posts: 2331
  • Graduate, Wallace and Gromit School of Engineering
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2015, 04:38:43 PM »
Welcome


Nice bike too. I also own a 1984 edition, we have the last of the twin shock models.


Looks a well preserved bike - what's the story? Do you have a maintenance history for it and know what miles has it done or is it all a mystery waiting to be uncovered?
Logged
1978 R100RS| 1981 R100RS (JPS) | 1984 R65 | 1992 KLE500 | 2002 R1150GSA |

Doughboy_1

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2015, 08:11:58 PM »
A couple more... 76k local bike bought new at Cariboo Motorcycle.
Logged

clonmore1

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2015, 04:03:43 AM »
Nice looker, not standard bars?

Lovely colour, hides the age well...
Logged

Offline Tony Smith

  • Mt. Olympus Resident
  • ****
  • Posts: 2331
  • Graduate, Wallace and Gromit School of Engineering
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2015, 04:03:28 PM »
Quote
Nice looker, not standard bars?

Lovely colour, hides the age well...

And a kick starter...... I am amazed just how many bikes elsewhere in the world got kick start fitted. IIRC a kick start lever became optional here after about the R90/6, the only model to which one was fitted as standard spec after that was the R80G/S.
 
My R100RS has one and over the years it has got me out of trouble just often enough that I'd like one on all my BMWs (but without being prepared to pay the necessary premium).
 
Elsewhere in the world seems to have received kick starters as OEM fit to a much later date.
Logged
1978 R100RS| 1981 R100RS (JPS) | 1984 R65 | 1992 KLE500 | 2002 R1150GSA |

Offline Julio A.

  • Lives at Base of Mt. Olympus
  • ***
  • Posts: 507
Re: Hi from Surrey BC
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2015, 08:43:17 AM »
Wow, awesome R65 you got there man! All original and unmolested.
Logged
Julio Alarcon
1981 R65
1976 R90/6
2001 R1150 GS/ADV
2015 TR650
Pages: [1]
« previous next »