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Post a picture of your Oilhead

RS bump - Been meaning to post these - was in Vermont a few months back - great roads not to mention ski resorts
 

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I've always thought that was a great color scheme...for an RS.:)

Looks like seriously nice riding territory...wish I had the stamina to rid that far!

Cheers! B
 
I've always thought that was a great color scheme...for an RS.:)

Cheers! B


Well, I can see why those colors might look attractive to you . . . .

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Though I'm still groovin' on the Dark Knight on the left . . .
 
A secret little confession.

Years ago, I talked a work compatriot into buying a lightly used RS. Nice machine with a few options. Solid black color. He was the type that bought and sold motorcycles constantly. Don't believe he ever owned any particular bike for more than a year or so. We've lost touch, but last time I saw him he was in his 14th year riding that RS.

Guess some people actually like 'em! :scratch
 
I think this falls into the "No accounting for taste" category. :laugh

PS Glad to see you're still terrorizing the roads of NW Washington. :thumb

Careful using the word "terrorizing", ya never know who might be reading this.

I don't wanna end up on someone's no fly list... :lol
 
A secret little confession.

Years ago, I talked a work compatriot into buying a lightly used RS. Nice machine with a few options. Solid black color. He was the type that bought and sold motorcycles constantly. Don't believe he ever owned any particular bike for more than a year or so. We've lost touch, but last time I saw him he was in his 14th year riding that RS.

Guess some people actually like 'em! :scratch

... or they are really hard to sell because nobody wants to buy them.
 
RS bump - Been meaning to post these - was in Vermont a few months back - great roads not to mention ski resorts

Jambx, looks like you eliminated the rear mud guard. What did you use to mount the license plate? I want to do his to the red bike.
 
My 2003 R1150RS & miles and miles of sunflowers, during my Pirsig Pilgrimage in South Dakota - September 2015
 

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Jambx, looks like you eliminated the rear mud guard. What did you use to mount the license plate? I want to do his to the red bike.

Yes - I just had to chop off that hideous rear guard / a plate holder. I will snap a few pics this week and send them to you - basically I took a piece of plastic scribed the plate and drilled some tabs which screwed up under the rear fender area - the transformed the rear end into a much more aggressive look since the entire rear wheel is now exposed (I of course also ditched the charcoal can as well). Cost nothing but maybe 30 minutes of my time - I highly recommend it!
 
Yes - I just had to chop off that hideous rear guard / a plate holder. I will snap a few pics this week and send them to you - basically I took a piece of plastic scribed the plate and drilled some tabs which screwed up under the rear fender area - the transformed the rear end into a much more aggressive look since the entire rear wheel is now exposed (I of course also ditched the charcoal can as well). Cost nothing but maybe 30 minutes of my time - I highly recommend it!

Nice mod, really tidies up the back end of the bike. :thumb
 
Yes - I just had to chop off that hideous rear guard / a plate holder. I will snap a few pics this week and send them to you - basically I took a piece of plastic scribed the plate and drilled some tabs which screwed up under the rear fender area - the transformed the rear end into a much more aggressive look since the entire rear wheel is now exposed (I of course also ditched the charcoal can as well). Cost nothing but maybe 30 minutes of my time - I highly recommend it!

Awesome! I look forward to the pictures.
 
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I was gonna be a :jester and comment that RS cleaned up real nice w/out the big fender...oh I kind of did:wave
 
Sweet! "Oilheads forever . . . . "

Maybe we should start another club, the "Oilhead Beemer Club" along the lines of the Airhead Beemer Club (I'm #11949 . . . ). Call it the OBC. Motto could be "Somewhat Complicated by Choice." Maybe try to convince Paul and Voni to be the first two members . . . :brow

Seriously (well, sorta) the ABC was begun by folks not happy with the increased complexity and cost of the new oilhead engine and bikes. Now, these many years later the oilheads with all their idiosyncrasies have become in effect a marvel of simplicity compared to the new electronic wonderbikes.

Sweet lineup of bikes there, for sure.
 
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