BMWGreetings MOA Members,
After an 8 year hiatus from having a beemer in my garage, I'm happy to say I'm (almost) back in a German saddle today after having provided a deposit on a red 2016 April production S1000XR with Touring and Dynamic Packages, handguards and saddlebags. Having become a lifetime MOA member in the 1990's I have kept up with BMW's evolving R, K and S lines through BMW ON, but I sold my last beemer in 2007.
A brief history of my flirtations with the blue and white roundel: My first streetbike was a beemer K75S, to this day one of the smoothest bikes I've ever ridden. As fortune would have it, a few years later I managed the local BMW auto distributor in the Dominican Republic. Being a motohead, I imported two first-year F650s even though we did not have the motorcycle franchise. Work took me to Central America where I became smitten with the R1150GS as soon as it was released. I bought mine in Manhattan between meetings on a business trip and shipped it by plane to El Salvador, only to have US customs officials insist I ship it back to have it properly inspected before being re-exported to me (frustrating story but eventually it arrived).
Work then took me to Colombia and I bought a demo R1100S from the dealer before I even had a place to live. While there I bought a small townhouse in Miami for R&R breaks and promptly stuffed a K1200LT in the garage on which I toured in FL and the southeast. My SO and I took several riding vacations during those years, touring the Alps, northern Spain, Southern Spain and South Africa by beemers. Eventually I moved to Miami and sold the LT, replacing it with a white and blue K1200RS. It was a fun bike but I decided to exchange it for an HD FLHTCU for two up touring, and a KTM 950 for solo rides.
What goes around comes around,and in 2013 I returned to the Dominican Republic where I first began riding beemers. My initial stable however, began with a KTM 1190 Adventure and my current Husky 650, two bikes appropriate for our not-so-great roads. By chance a rider showed up in December very eager to buy my KTM, and I sold it. A few days ago I was looking to get another liter plus bike and had settled on the Duc Multistrada. The local Duc dealer provided a decent quote on a MultiStrada, but follow up on the sale was null. The beemer crew was the opposite: attentive and knowledgeable, so now I have come around full circle. Right back where I started: with a sport touring BMW in the middle of the Caribbean. Life is good and I look forward to learning once again from other BMW forum members.
After an 8 year hiatus from having a beemer in my garage, I'm happy to say I'm (almost) back in a German saddle today after having provided a deposit on a red 2016 April production S1000XR with Touring and Dynamic Packages, handguards and saddlebags. Having become a lifetime MOA member in the 1990's I have kept up with BMW's evolving R, K and S lines through BMW ON, but I sold my last beemer in 2007.
A brief history of my flirtations with the blue and white roundel: My first streetbike was a beemer K75S, to this day one of the smoothest bikes I've ever ridden. As fortune would have it, a few years later I managed the local BMW auto distributor in the Dominican Republic. Being a motohead, I imported two first-year F650s even though we did not have the motorcycle franchise. Work took me to Central America where I became smitten with the R1150GS as soon as it was released. I bought mine in Manhattan between meetings on a business trip and shipped it by plane to El Salvador, only to have US customs officials insist I ship it back to have it properly inspected before being re-exported to me (frustrating story but eventually it arrived).
Work then took me to Colombia and I bought a demo R1100S from the dealer before I even had a place to live. While there I bought a small townhouse in Miami for R&R breaks and promptly stuffed a K1200LT in the garage on which I toured in FL and the southeast. My SO and I took several riding vacations during those years, touring the Alps, northern Spain, Southern Spain and South Africa by beemers. Eventually I moved to Miami and sold the LT, replacing it with a white and blue K1200RS. It was a fun bike but I decided to exchange it for an HD FLHTCU for two up touring, and a KTM 950 for solo rides.
What goes around comes around,and in 2013 I returned to the Dominican Republic where I first began riding beemers. My initial stable however, began with a KTM 1190 Adventure and my current Husky 650, two bikes appropriate for our not-so-great roads. By chance a rider showed up in December very eager to buy my KTM, and I sold it. A few days ago I was looking to get another liter plus bike and had settled on the Duc Multistrada. The local Duc dealer provided a decent quote on a MultiStrada, but follow up on the sale was null. The beemer crew was the opposite: attentive and knowledgeable, so now I have come around full circle. Right back where I started: with a sport touring BMW in the middle of the Caribbean. Life is good and I look forward to learning once again from other BMW forum members.
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