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Author Topic: Show me your R65  (Read 20240 times)

steve_wicks

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #120 on: November 01, 2009, 10:25:54 PM »
This is Mutti and I dressed her up in a little bikini!!

I went to a local Classic Bike club meet yesterday and parked next to a R65 I haven't seen before. I was jealous of the screen so walked away with a fairing for $13 ..... fitting took all of 10 min with a few pieces of flat strip, drill & angle grinder!
« Last Edit: November 01, 2009, 11:09:05 PM by steve_wicks »

SCJJR65

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #121 on: November 02, 2009, 07:25:57 AM »
Pretty nifty!  LOVE the red paint job!!   [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #122 on: November 05, 2009, 09:26:39 AM »
Mike - LOVE the pic - in your matching R65 shirt, no less, amongst the fall colors.  Lovely indeed!
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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #123 on: November 05, 2009, 04:51:37 PM »
Lrb is panting!!! Tillie is lookin' gooood! Mike, you don't think LRB and Tillie had a thing goin' on at the MOA National in TN do ya???? ;)

What some of you owners have been doing sure gives one ideas!! The 12 V accessory plug. A black fairing for the red/black bike. Red hand guards. Lots of shiny parts 8-) 8-)

This thread may beat all others! What a delight.

Mike...do you have all those leaves still on your trees?? Or did you take the pic a while ago??? Our trees are pretty well bare now except for the odd hanger onner!

Where in Kent England are we looking Constellation? Black surefoot looks better than steel Brown stand. A powdercoating is in order.
1983 R65LS - LRB still my favourite!? 1988 Honda NX250, "Toodles Too" and a Suzuki DR650, "Calypso." All stored in the "Brrrmmm Closet".

scottyintex

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #124 on: November 05, 2009, 06:10:34 PM »
Wow...this thread has exceeded all my expectations!! There are some beautiful R65's out there.....some machines that made me absolutely drool.  Thank you one and all for sharing!!!! Let’s keep the thread alive and growing. Thanks!!!

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #125 on: November 06, 2009, 07:26:03 AM »
There sure are some beauties.  Here's the R65 that I saved from being a true rat bike.  The PO had painted the tank, side panels and front fender with wrinkled truck bed liner.  The seat was scarlet full quill ostrich.  It's much more sedate these days and after sorting out the engine, adding new shocks, replacing the rotted tank and different handlebars, it looks more like it should.
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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #126 on: November 06, 2009, 10:07:28 AM »
You did a good job of saving that bike from becoming a RAT, Mike - truck bed liner, indeed!!!!   Sacrilege!

Hi Sue - we still have some leaves, but not many, and they are pretty much all just brown know.   Alot of wind, rain, and sleet/snow have knocked most of them down, though there is still an odd tree here or there with a bit of color that isn't brown.  That tree (American beech) holds it leaves the longest of any tree in our area - oftenwell into winter, though they are only bright yellow for a week or so before dying and becoming brown.  "Nature's toiletpaper" for lost hikers in the winter time (emergency use only)..

This pics thread is one of my favorites, too!  

There is a airhead pics thread on BMWMOA forum with some other beautiful airheads in it, and also a thread of sidecar rig pics, too.

This winter, I've got to do something about Tillie's wheels, poor thing.
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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #127 on: November 09, 2009, 06:46:13 AM »
Its Girties 30th birthday so i bought her a new skirt for her party
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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #128 on: November 09, 2009, 09:04:51 AM »
Lucky Lou has a lucky Girtie!! Nothing is going to scratch those cylinder heads now...or ever! Could highway pegs attach to those or still too hot?

Bengt...that "s" fairing seems to fit the 7" headlight without a rigged up spacer of some sort. Who makes that one?

Scotty thank you for starting this thread too!!

Nhmaf...we can use Burdock leaves too! Beech is good though and there have been some humungous maple leaves this year! I guess you camp too???
1983 R65LS - LRB still my favourite!? 1988 Honda NX250, "Toodles Too" and a Suzuki DR650, "Calypso." All stored in the "Brrrmmm Closet".

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #129 on: November 10, 2009, 06:33:41 PM »
bmwr65.org   ...The epicenter of all things R65.

Scotty, you are causing many of our members to heavily invest in R65 upgrades. Me? I just love all the chrome exhaust on our Brit members bikes. Must control credit card...

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #130 on: November 11, 2009, 11:39:37 AM »
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bmwr65.org   ...The epicenter of all things R65.

Scotty, you are causing many of our members to heavily invest in R65 upgrades. Me? I just love all the chrome exhaust on our Brit members bikes. Must control credit card...

Monte
Good job ive got shares in Autosol !! btw im on the hunt for a chrome grab rail for the back of the seat any ideas anyone??
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bruce_launceston

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #131 on: November 13, 2009, 05:52:53 AM »
This is me and my LS out on a beautiful day on the Tamar River last weekend. Just been out on the Motorcycle Riders Association annual 'Awareness Ride'.
Entered my bike in the show n shine and picked up the trophy for 'best european' for the second year running.
Bikes everwhere this weekend, the national HOG rally is in town, about 2000 Harleys they say.

Oh, and that's one of Justins R65.org caps, I'm guessing the only one in Tassie (apart from the spare I bought with it), don't know if he has sent any thers to Oz?

There are more detailed photo's of my finished R65LS refurb on the photo gallery.
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SCJJR65

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #132 on: November 13, 2009, 07:45:28 AM »
Beautiful bike, Bruce!   [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

I don't know why BMW didn't offer the LS in yellow.  It looks smashing in the bright sunlight!

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #133 on: November 13, 2009, 09:38:59 AM »
Nice one Bruce love the matching helmet ......are the guide brakets off the front brake pipes because of the fairing ???
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bruce_launceston

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Re: Show me your R65
« Reply #134 on: November 13, 2009, 11:09:45 PM »
Hi Lou
When I bought the HEL SS brake hose set they came with fittings to go directly onto the calipers, so I had to remove the bottom steel brake pipe and brackets. I took the top brackets off because the new hoses didn't run through them at a nice angle and it worked better without them.
I swapped the brake hoses over with the bleed valves on the calipers so that the hoses don't rub on the front mudguard.

Cheers Bruce