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SUNNYBEAR
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Hi folks...
Just joined up yesterday as a birthday pres from my kids. Glad to be aboard....even though I don't have a bike....yet...
I grew up with motorcycles, my first being a HOnda SL 70 that I bought with my own money when I was 11 or so...put many miles on that thing going around in circles in the back yard. My parents have an adventurous spirit...still do in their mid and late 70's. For that I am very grateful.
Anyway they gor their first beemer in about 1974 or so..an R90/something...realized about a year later that it was a tad big and got an R75/6...that's what I learned to road drive on
In the sunner of '76 they strapped me and my 6 yr old brother on the beemer and a Honda 500 4 (the orange great pumpkin as we called it) and bungied on a tent and sleeping bags and proceeded to head for South Dakota from South Carolina.
We did not make it out of the driveway as all the gear fell off the rack...as a 13 year old you can only imagine what I was thinking we were in store for...so we spent the departure day repacking only to leave the next day in the pouring rain...and yes, it rained ALL day all the way to Cincinnati.
Long story short is that we all survived the trip...I have many stories to tell about it all, but my parents have always had BMW's sine then...I sold the bike I had after college...a Suzuki GS 650...and have not had a bike in about 23 years or so.
Every time I went home to visit I would always take out my parents bikes which included over the years a couple K bikes, one of the "Battle of the Legends: bikes, a couple of the dual sport bikes and some airheads here and there.
Well, my Mom always said that I was gonna inherit one of their bikes and I was just gonna have to wait. I guess she got tired of me waiting, so in the mail (today is my birthday) I get a card saying that they are going to transfer the title to teir '84 R100Rt over to me!
All I have to do is go and pick it up! 
So, here I am...
sorry for the long post, but I'm sorta excited.
cheers
Just joined up yesterday as a birthday pres from my kids. Glad to be aboard....even though I don't have a bike....yet...
I grew up with motorcycles, my first being a HOnda SL 70 that I bought with my own money when I was 11 or so...put many miles on that thing going around in circles in the back yard. My parents have an adventurous spirit...still do in their mid and late 70's. For that I am very grateful.
Anyway they gor their first beemer in about 1974 or so..an R90/something...realized about a year later that it was a tad big and got an R75/6...that's what I learned to road drive on
In the sunner of '76 they strapped me and my 6 yr old brother on the beemer and a Honda 500 4 (the orange great pumpkin as we called it) and bungied on a tent and sleeping bags and proceeded to head for South Dakota from South Carolina.
We did not make it out of the driveway as all the gear fell off the rack...as a 13 year old you can only imagine what I was thinking we were in store for...so we spent the departure day repacking only to leave the next day in the pouring rain...and yes, it rained ALL day all the way to Cincinnati.
Long story short is that we all survived the trip...I have many stories to tell about it all, but my parents have always had BMW's sine then...I sold the bike I had after college...a Suzuki GS 650...and have not had a bike in about 23 years or so.
Every time I went home to visit I would always take out my parents bikes which included over the years a couple K bikes, one of the "Battle of the Legends: bikes, a couple of the dual sport bikes and some airheads here and there.
Well, my Mom always said that I was gonna inherit one of their bikes and I was just gonna have to wait. I guess she got tired of me waiting, so in the mail (today is my birthday) I get a card saying that they are going to transfer the title to teir '84 R100Rt over to me!
All I have to do is go and pick it up! So, here I am...
sorry for the long post, but I'm sorta excited.
cheers
