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Post a pic of your Airhead

1993 r100gspd

2320 miles on the odo.

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:clap :clap :clap

VERY cool! I think you're gonna LOVE making it yours! Keep us posted on what you do to it!

well, i got a "new" seat for it (an unused takeoff from a '92 bumbleebee), and a set of Happy Trail bags... but I just sold it to my g/f. She in turn gave it to her son and future daughter-in-law as a wedding present. It's an "upgrade" for him from his '02 Yammie R1- but he's loving it.

Guess it's time to really get to work on my 2 project airheads- a '65 R69S, and my '78 R100S.
 
Well...

I don't remember posting any photos of my scooters here so here are the bikes!

First off is the R-90'6 that I bought back in 1989. Just a stock bike but a bike with a lotta heart.

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I put maybe 200K on it and then, when it was pretty much worn out, I dug into my vintage parts collection and built this:

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Among a long list of other trick parts, this bike has a race quality, braced frame. Unfortunately, it's currently apart, awaiting an engine rebuild including a 336 cam, 1000cc Nik cylinders, 1977 Big Valve heads, 38mm Dells and a few other tricks. And I thought it was done.... :banghead

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Heres the "new" bike. It's a 1982 R-100RS that I bought out of a barn and rebuilt mechanicly, over the last couple of months. This one is meant to go the distance this summer. Over the Rockies and out to the Nationals, and then to VA, W.VA, PA, Ohio, Toronto and then back here to N. California, via Canada. :thumb

Here it is getting a bath the day it came home:
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And here it is last week, out on Hwy 1 a few miles North of Jenner. It's still awaiting a reinstallation it's lowers and a couple of other last minute items before we hit the road but its a solid runner now and a real road burner. We'll see how it holds up!



Now... All I need is a /2 conversion. ...and maybe an R-65LS...or one of those new Superbikes and a much bigger garage!!
 
Mike's New Beemer

Here's the one I'm waiting to bring home: a 1984 R100RT.
<-- (That's my current ride over there. A '72 R75/5.)
 

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the new '95 r100r

Here's the new one....the R100RS Mono is gone. Tires and lower bars ordered, mono subframe coming in late July from seller in Hawaii. Will be looking for /5 tank, maybe /6 or /7 seat, possibly new exhaust & carbs. Depends on how far the money goes...
 

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Here's my '92 R100RS. Sorry, it's the best photo I have of her.
 

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Here's Francine, my 76 r90/6. I posted a picture of her on the forum when I first got her a year ago, but now she's actually prettied up. Gave her her first bath in at least twenty years the other day.

Not a full restoration, but she's gone from a barn bike to a dependable commuter, which is good enough for me.
 

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First post, first BMW.
 

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Daily Rider '76 R75/6 (Deutsch)

My daily rider (the beemer) since I bought her cheap in Germany (1983). Just finished a quick 2500 mile round trip to Kentucky. Gotta love an airhead!
 

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Very nice machine. Welcome. I expect you will be spending a bit of time on the photography forum.:)

Ha, no. I had to borrow a camera to take this picture.

Are those RS bars on an RT?
And how do you like them?

Without looking at the vin number, the best I can figure is that it is a RS with an RT fairing. Because the rear brake is a drum and a fairing swap is more logical than a brake swap. I like them alright, however at low speeds, turning sharply, my hands bump into the windscreen adjustment knobs.
 
How to fix a brake bleeding problem

Some of you may have seen my thread trying to get the F brakes to bleed on the R80RT I'm working on. Biggest PITA I've run across in a long time. Met a fellow Great Plains Beemers member in Tim Horton's this morning, asked if he still had his bike for sale. Long story short, in the driveway is now this 92 R100RT, 75K km, new tires and great shape. All it needs is L side PRT seals- do you have to bleed those?

Steve
 

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Some of you may have seen my thread trying to get the F brakes to bleed on the R80RT I'm working on. Biggest PITA I've run across in a long time. Met a fellow Great Plains Beemers member in Tim Horton's this morning, asked if he still had his bike for sale. Long story short, in the driveway is now this 92 R100RT, 75K km, new tires and great shape. All it needs is L side PRT seals- do you have to bleed those?

Steve

There a solution to the brake problem no one thought of! That is a fine looking RT. Don't worry about the PRT seals. They are self bleeding. :thumb
 
A real motorcycle

1973 LWB 60/5

I put a photo of my bike in other thread, but I am so proud of it, I wanted to put it in this one. She sat up for 12 years and I refurbished her...just like new. I've got the side covers too, but you know how easy they are to lose.

:usa
 

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1973 LWB 60/5

I put a photo of my bike in other thread, but I am so proud of it, I wanted to put it in this one. She sat up for 12 years and I refurbished her...just like new. I've got the side covers too, but you know how easy they are to lose.

:usa

NICE Toaster:thumb
Are your mufflers mounted on the correct side? Doesn't look like they sweep upward like they should?
Here is my SWB Toaster. It sat for 20 years before I rescued it from an open shed:

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Are your mufflers mounted on the correct side?

Hank -

Check the picture of lastrada's /5...that's what the mufflers should look like. Unless the angle in your picture distorts the view, it looks like your mufflers needed to be rotated 180 degrees to get the proper slope change where the circumferential weld is.
 
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