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SCJJR65

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I'll gladly share with you all!
« on: September 18, 2009, 11:11:11 AM »
For anyone interested in reading the excellent article on the R65 by Clement Salvadori that appeared in the August issue of Rider magazine, I have scanned the article and have saved it as a jpg. file that I will be happy to email to you to read at your leisure.  Just send me a personal message with the email address that you would like me to email the article to.  It's a great article on the history of our under-appreciated bike, especially for those of you who happen to own a 1979 model!   ;)
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Re: I'll gladly share with you all!
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2009, 11:51:26 AM »
John, send one my way .

Rider magazine had an '82 LS in henna red, on the cover of one of their issues back in , oh around '82 or so, it also shared the cover with a red Fokker Tri-plane ( the Red Baron), a timeless photo .
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'02 R1150R
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I'll give up my R65, when they pry my cold dead hands from the handlebars !!!!!

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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2009, 12:38:40 PM »
Me, please.

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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2009, 12:50:58 PM »
It's a good article, with a lot of the positives about the bike, instead of the usual underpowered view, that is so common with this model .

It brings up a good point, about pricing, I bought my '81 in January,1981 for $3295, plus the usual taxes, license fees ......

I had a co-worker buy an '81 Yamaha 650 for $1600, new around the same time .

He couldn't fathom why anyone would pay so much for such a 'slow' motorcycle .

Our paths crossed about 2 years ago, he's now the vice-president of aircraft maintenance for Chautauqua airlines, a regional commuter airline, based in the mid-western US (Columbus,Ohio) .

He asked me what ever happened to that BMW you had back in the early '80's, I told him that I still use it to commute to work, had 80,000 miles at the time .

He couldn't believe that I still had it, and was still using it on a regular basis, his Yamaha crapped out on him three years after he bought it, with 27,000 miles on it .
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'81 R65
'82 R65 LS
'84 R65 LS
'87 Moto Guzzi V65 Lario
'02 R1150R
Riding all year long since 1993 .
I'll give up my R65, when they pry my cold dead hands from the handlebars !!!!!

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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2009, 01:11:12 PM »
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...He couldn't believe that I still had it, and was still using it on a regular basis, his Yamaha crapped out on him three years after he bought it, with 27,000 miles on it .


[smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]   'nuf said. Monte

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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2009, 01:14:34 PM »
He really couldn't believe that I had just put around $2000 into it, for it's first real 'heavy' maintenance cycle .
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'81 R65
'82 R65 LS
'84 R65 LS
'87 Moto Guzzi V65 Lario
'02 R1150R
Riding all year long since 1993 .
I'll give up my R65, when they pry my cold dead hands from the handlebars !!!!!

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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2009, 02:11:11 PM »
Just received your article.

Thanks John
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2009, 02:27:50 PM »
I remember seeing that magazine cover!   Wish that I had kept it, but I must have moved at least 15 or 20  times since 1982, and several bikes have passed through my hands.
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2009, 04:05:19 PM »
Hi John,

Send one my please!

m082 at comcast dot net

Thanks
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2009, 04:49:53 PM »
Hi John,

I would like one, as well.  r651979 at hotmail dot com


Thanks!

If I ever dig up that '80s copy of Rider, I'll let you guys know.  I am a REAL packrat.

Bob,  I, too, had the NON-conundrum of purchase price when I bought my '79 in the spring of 1980.  $3600 (they dropped the price after the first year...)
I could have had ANY 1000cc Japanese bike for the same money (maybe even a CBX?), but not only would my insurance have been through the roof, but I wouldn't have been as confident of working on it myself.  And that was my plan for the next 30 years, or so.
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2009, 05:55:58 PM »
1981 is when the Japanese manufacturers were 'dumping' bikes in the US market for far less than cost, that's when Hogley-Davidson, got the US government to put a hefty tariff on bikes over 750 cc for about 5 years, so they could 'get their act together', and compete with them .

I had that issue of Rider magazine, up until I moved into my current house (11/94), kinda thought that it was time to get rid of it .
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'81 R65
'82 R65 LS
'84 R65 LS
'87 Moto Guzzi V65 Lario
'02 R1150R
Riding all year long since 1993 .
I'll give up my R65, when they pry my cold dead hands from the handlebars !!!!!

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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2009, 07:15:06 PM »
I have personal junk dating back to Junior-High school days.
I have all my model rocketry order receipts from Estes, just in case I get audited some day.

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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2009, 07:18:32 PM »
Every once in a while, you ask yourself, 'do I really need this s**t anymore', and the answer that I usually get, is that you should have never kept it in the first place !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I'm a 'minimalist' by nature .
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'81 R65
'82 R65 LS
'84 R65 LS
'87 Moto Guzzi V65 Lario
'02 R1150R
Riding all year long since 1993 .
I'll give up my R65, when they pry my cold dead hands from the handlebars !!!!!

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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2009, 07:26:41 PM »
Every move whittles it down.

Too bad about the sidecar rig, though.
I should have kept that one... ;)
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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2009, 07:42:14 PM »
I regret selling my first bike, a '79 Yamaha XS 400, sold it in August, 1992, after 9 months of unemployment .

If I had known then, that I would have ended up in Phoenix in a year or so, I would have kept it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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'81 R65
'82 R65 LS
'84 R65 LS
'87 Moto Guzzi V65 Lario
'02 R1150R
Riding all year long since 1993 .
I'll give up my R65, when they pry my cold dead hands from the handlebars !!!!!
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