New Member in Kansas

First off, Hi, I'm Robert.

I grew up in Southern California in the 70/80s I moved through Bicycles and moped to my first motorcycle, a Honda CL90. I later moved to Northern California and my last motorcycle there was a Yamaha V-Star. One thing that bike taught me was that I don't like cruisers.

I then spent close to a decade outside the US. In that block of time, I rode motorcycles in China and Vietnam.

Returning to the states I just never got another motorcycle. Then I got to thinking about it again and started looking. I wasn't so sure that I was going to enjoy it as I had in the past, so I went looking at used bikes. I happened to see a F650cs for sale reasonably local and ended up buying it.

At this point, I have been riding it around for a couple of weeks and I am pretty sure that I am back "into" motorcycling.

. . . so, Hi all.

Welcome to this Forum. What part of Kansas are you hailing from? We lived in Topeka for 10 years andnear Lawrence for 12 years before bailing further south.

PGlaves said:

Welcome to this Forum. What part of Kansas are you hailing from? We lived in Topeka for 10 years andnear Lawrence for 12 years before bailing further south.

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South West, a town called Liberal.

Good your getting back into it! Welcome from Newfoundland.

Welcome from central Florida.

Hola af7ja!

Welcome back to the world of motorcycling (particularly on a BMW, Bob). Jus sayin, A CS is a useful training bike - just so you can dust the cobwebs off! You’re gonna need a newer, more powerful BMW if you’re gonna go eXploring around the USA. It’ll happen exactly when it’s s’posed to happen.

Maybe you’re not ready to ride a CS to MO next month, but you’re certainly gonna need a bigger BMW to ride cross-country to the 2023 BMW International Rally in Doswell, VA in early June. So get your poop together for a future Long-Distance ADVenture...

Hope you’ll show up in MO in four weeks: >>>> https://rally.bmwmoa.org <<<<

Happy Trails whenever U can - Ciao!
HSV-Karen & HSV-Phil
USN-Ret'd —-&-— USAF-Ret’d
'09 650GS-twin — '14 K-GT
'82 R100CS ——— '75 R90S
'16 R1200RS —-— ’05 Vespa 200L

Welcome Robert! Glad you're "back". Hope you can share a pic or two of the 650.