Got another R65 :)

[thrang]

Well I've I've finally found an 83 R65 I liked the look of after looking at a couple over the last month or two. I'm paying a bit over the odds at £800 but it was recommended by a mate of mine who works servicing bikes for a BMW dealers when he heard I was after replacement for my ailing Bimbo. Who I ridden pretty much into the ground, and have had to bodge up and keep on the road for the last year or so.  

So heres to my second BMW, and fingers crossed this one will give me as much fun as Bimbo, who is going be a bit of a garden ornament until next winter when I'll strip her down and see about rebuilding her.

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Here's to [size=16]YOU[/size][/color] my friend!  [smiley=beerchug.gif]

For belonging to that elite group that can honestly say they "wore out" a BMW!

May you always have a tailwind...

[Justin B.]

Yes, that's quite an accomplishment.  Hopefully you can now do more riding than repairing!  If it is a reletively low mileage machine that price would be quite reasonable over here.

[thrang]

The bloke I bought her off says she's got 50k on her, but the clock only reads 4.5K ( as he had to replace it). From the feel of the engine, and how it pulls the motor and gearbox are sweet as a nut.

No 'wrong' rattles and knocks, or sounds, just that nice bmw twin 'duffer, duffer clunk' and I gave her a wee bit of stick bringing her home, averaging 70 plus all the way home up the motorway.
tony

[SCJJR65]

Congrats, thrang!!   [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Of course, now we must see a photo or two of your new ride you intend on "running into the ground"!  

[thrang]

Being honest I don't think I'll get anything like those miles on this one. Now I've got a mortgage I can no longer afford to be able to shoot off to bike rallys and motorcycle rights demos abroad. Although I've had a cart license since my teens I didn't own a car until I was 40, and living for 10 years in Cumbria where its a 40 mile trip to buy a pair of jeans (the shops in the village are great if you want a cagoule or technical climbing gear, but a pair of socks or other mundane item it a 40 mile round trip, so I was clocking 10k a year before I went anywhere.

As soon as I can pull my finger out and get some battery's for my camera I'll post a few piccys of the new one on my webspace and scan some of the Bimbo.

[thrang]

Just pulled my finger out and transfered the piccys from my camera to the computer.
heres a piccy

[thrang]

Me again. Thats three in a row!

Had a bit of sleepless night, so I've uploaded some drivvle and the piccys I was able to snap before the batts died in my camera.

http://www.thrang.freeserve.co.uk/bike/r65.htm

Is the link if anyones intrested.

[SCJJR65]

Oh, yeah!  Love the fairing, Thrang!!!   [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Wish I could get something like that on Britta!

[thrang]

Having spent they afternoon starting to cleaning her up I'm having a bit of a love hate relationship with the fairing. It works really well, but makes the bike look pig ugly.

"Uglier", says she who is to be obeyed who thinks two valve Beemer's are ugly bikes... But she's go no taste, she can't have coz she married me. )

[SCJJR65]

Well, you know what they say.... "Love is blind".  

[Justin B.]

wife.mil will eventually see the light.  I bought my first Beemer because it was too good a deal to pass up but thought the breed was kinda homely.  After a fwe months it kinda "growed on me" and I haven't looked back.  

[Ed Miller]

I don't care for the looks of fairings, but I agree with you that they're sweet in the winter.  If anything Windjammers are less, uh, pleasant to observe than the RT fairings, but I love mine both in crummy rainy weather and mornings like yesterday and today when it was below freezing.  I hope for your sake that yours is easy to strip off and run without the fairing, because they are miserable in warm weather.  I need to make a little wiring harness for an aftermarket headlight and the turn signals so that I can remove mine and run without it, but I don't seem to be in any hurry.

I think you'll also feel good about rebuilding your other R65... you are planning to, aren't you?

[thrang]

The plan for the Bimbo is to strip her down completely and see just how bad the damage to her frame is. The main reason why I've had to pension her off as my main bike is a crack on the lower bearing race housing on the headstock. I won't know until I've got her in bits and can turn the frame over to a mate of mine who'll be able to tell if it can be safely repaired.

If it was the first time the head stock had needed welding I would not be to worried, but I had a wee prang (that cost me the big fairing)  in Morocco and had to weld up between the bolt holes for the headstock fairing mount. The frame has also been welded up on on the nearside where the lower frame rail meets the swing arm so its been in the wars. If I can afford it then, I'll do it.