Hello all, I recently started riding a good bit again. I'm not much of a "joiner", but figured it was time to finally sign up after haunting the forums for many years.
I've ridden for about 40 years, off and on. I fell in love with BMW's the day I saw an R90S in Cycle magazine in my elementary school library, circa 1976. I was in the Army in West Germany about 10 years after that and bought a hand-me-down barracks bike, a '72 or '73 R60/5 I called "Der schwarze Müllhaufen". The odometer had rolled over who knows how many times and it was held together with a lot of duct tape, but I once rode it more than 1200 km across what was then East Germany to Berlin and back just for fun. Sold it to another soldier the day before I shipped out- it's probably still going.
Back in the States I rode mostly Kawasakis til marriage and children intervened. I bought a '97 R1100R "Das grüne Ungeheuer" in 2007 and rode it for many years. Sold it recently and bought my well-maintained '94 R1100RS "Der rote Baron" that I'm on now.
Anyway, thanks for letting me join the club. Keep the rubber side down.
David Shaw
I've ridden for about 40 years, off and on. I fell in love with BMW's the day I saw an R90S in Cycle magazine in my elementary school library, circa 1976. I was in the Army in West Germany about 10 years after that and bought a hand-me-down barracks bike, a '72 or '73 R60/5 I called "Der schwarze Müllhaufen". The odometer had rolled over who knows how many times and it was held together with a lot of duct tape, but I once rode it more than 1200 km across what was then East Germany to Berlin and back just for fun. Sold it to another soldier the day before I shipped out- it's probably still going.
Back in the States I rode mostly Kawasakis til marriage and children intervened. I bought a '97 R1100R "Das grüne Ungeheuer" in 2007 and rode it for many years. Sold it recently and bought my well-maintained '94 R1100RS "Der rote Baron" that I'm on now.
Anyway, thanks for letting me join the club. Keep the rubber side down.
David Shaw