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What is your current screen saver?

The awesome road that is US 129. Ridden this road for many years on many different bikes and it is just unbelievable how agile the GS is, especially with a good set of road tires on.
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My current screen saver

Here she is - a 1983 R80 g/s (always loved the white ones). My first BMW was a blue R80 g/s in 1985. As a part of the wooing process, Don gave me this bike back in 2005 - I think he understood me, even then. 14,000 kms (8,700 miles) on the clock and garaged almost exclusively for over 20 years by her original owner, I ignored the 'wisdom' that said she should be preserved in her then current state and proceeded to ride her everywhere.
The person on her is Linda Bootherstone who, back in 1985, founded the South Australian chapter of WIMA - the Women's International Motorcycle Association. We were all pretty new to riding BMWs then but Linda's stories were fantastic. She has been riding for more than fifty years. In 1967 she went into Russia and later, in 1974 she rode from her home in the UK down through Africa and eventually on to Australia, by herself on a 17 y.o. 500cc BMW.
This photo was taken at a Christmas picnic with the current members of our chapter in December 2015. Linda was having a little trip down memory lane. Good friends, good times, good memories.
 

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No screensaver, screen just goes off after 20 minutes of non-use.

Desktop wallpaper changes every 30 minutes to a different random picture from about 300 in a specific folder. About 40% landscapes, 20% wildlife, 20% motorcycle related, the rest astronomical, weather phenomena, a few optical illusions and memes. Virtually all interesting photos collected from the internet, with few snapshots of my own added in.

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