Two Wheels Better
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In the late '80s I had ridden from New Mexico where I resided at the time, and was camped out at Flagler Beach, FLA for Daytona Bikeweek. The local Beemer club used to grab a slice of the mostly-HD campground's soft sand under magnificent, Spanish moss-covered oak trees. A young guy and his girlfriend had ridden down from New England for the event, and they were astride the blue & white RS, an example of which you two are referring. I couldn't help but eye that sweet thing for the week (the bike, not his girlfriend, tho' she was particularly cute in her leathers), and rode with them often to the track and the beach, admiring its lines. I recall that it was the first ABS model in the states, just before those two amazing-looking K1 were introduced and ridden round the dirt oval at the '89 York, PA BMWMOA rally site on a swelteringly humid Saturday arvo. It remains one of the nicest looking BMW paint schemes, along with my personal favourite, the original '77 R100RS in blue-gray-primer.
Turned out I knew this guy's family from Pepperell, MA, where his uncle ran an apple orchard (now a housing estate and public lands) at the top of Heald Street. My youngest brother lives a half mile down the hill near the pond and is also a K rider. He owns the blue K1100RS with the K12LT engine that was once owned by Duck. Another K Koinkydink.
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1970 R60/5, '77 R75/7-R100, '85 K100, '87 K75C, '87 K100RS, '93 K11-K12 Big Block, '93 K1100RS, '95 R100-Mystic, '96 K1100RS, '98 K1200RS, '00 K1200RS, '02 K1200RS, '03 K1200GT, '04 R1150R, '04 R1150RT, '05 K1200S, #1 '06 K1200R, #2 '06 K1200R(renovated), '07 K1200R, '09 K1300GT(refreshed), '13 R1200RT-P & 2022 S1000XR(sold)
All of life is a foreign country. - Jack Kerouac, author (1922 - 1969)
Greetings from Concord, MA, USA Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:39 pm
