Show us a picture of your 1st BMW

[Bigbird]

OK, I'll start it off. Got my 1st BMW in nov 1999, a 1987 K75 w/ Pichler fairing and 54K miles. Drove out to Columbus, Ohio to get it. Rode it for 4 seasons and 33K more miles, before I sold it and got a 1100GS.

So let's see your first BMW

 

[marty]

1985 Brick S---house!

Tried the 1985 K100RT at the Americade Rally and bought one in Toronto that summer.
Kept it for 24 years, put on 175,000 km's and did 25 track days.
1 failed starter, 1 cracked fuel filter ($4.00), 1 broken backstand (warranteed) and 1 broken clutch cable.
Never, ever left me stranded. Most reliable bike I've owned.
Put an ad in the paper last year and sold in 1 day for 35% of what I paid.
Still smile and giggle about that bike.
Of course I have a 2007 K1200GT to keep the pain away!

 

[sheridesabeemer]

Long before it was my Spare bike, it was my first bike...

 

[crazydrummerdude]

My first, and I'm never getting rid of it.

 

[warredon]

Bought our first one in 77, it was a brand new R100/7. This first pic is one of my lovely wife posing on it in our front yard in Florida shortly after we got it. We were sure proud of it after riding Norton for years. It was sent to the junk pile in 84 with almost 90k after an old man took it out.

This pic with my wife again was taken in 79 early on in an 8k mile tour up north, then west, then back through the southwest.

I believe this pic was taken in Death Valley. My wife is on the right, and the young woman on the left is someone we met outside of Yosemite and rode with her through Death Valley. Her name is Roxanne, if you know her tell her that Don & Sue said "Hello."

 

[rad]

I came ÔÇ£thaaat closeÔÇØ to getting one of these back in 1975. I test rode a used one at SJBMW and was deciding between the BMW used and a brand new Honda CB550-4. I bought the Honda and rode a variety of Japanese until I bought my first BMW 20 years later, in the mid 90ÔÇÖs.

My first BMW

 

[milo]

I had test ridden a new 1976 R75/6 and was overwhelmed by how light and torquey it was, and particularly it's low center of gravity. I *really* wanted one and it had to be black. But no BMW dealer would take my 1973 Moto Guzzi V7 Sport on trade so I sold it outright and started saving over the winter. By next Summer I had $2,500 but it seemed BMW's were increasing faster than I could save. A new 1977 R75/7 was going to be (as I recall) $3,000 plus tax. Then in Sunday's classified was this; "almost new 1976 R75/6 with 1,600 miles black, mint cond. $2,450". I was able to get him down another $50 and we had a deal! This was in 1977, I was 24.

This picture of it was taken about 1979.

 

[mneblett]

I married into this SWB toaster in 1981:

The 1st BMW I could call "mine" was a '75 R90/6 -- didn't have it long, so no pics. Gotta find/post a pic of the next one in '82 -- a '78 R100/7, all black with a black Luftmeister fairing and Krauser bags -- a sharp looking set-up.

 

[88bmwjeff]

Hmm, My first BMW was a 96 328i convertible. Still have it. My second was a 94 525i. No longer have that one. Now my third BMW (and first Beemer) is an 88 R100 RT. This is my one and only Bemmer. I purchased it in August 2004, and I have put about 13,000 miles on it and have repaired/replaced more items than I initially thought. Howevr, I've learned a lot and have enjoyed working on the old girl. If I knew at the time how much repairs it was going to need, I probably shouldn't have purchased it, but I did and I enjoy it now.

 

[Roy.Jackson55@aol.com]

My 1978 R-80/7 with Lufmister Fairing, bags, Reynolds back rests and if you look closely, a set of after-market fog lights. Early farkles.

 

[geisterfahrer]

My avatar...

'76 R90/6, purchased last August.

 

[fastdogs2]

Picture of my first BMW

I wish I could have started earlier, as many of you did, but my mother and my wife were both vehemently opposed to motorcycles for me in my younger years.

Here is a photo of my 2000 R1200C which I purchased in 2002.

 

[dbrick]

My first BMW arrived in 1973, and it was a 1955 R50, with no pinstripes and J. C. Whitney mufflers. From the factory, it would have looked like this (and yes, mine had a Denfeld seat):

 

[marchyman]

I bought this '86 R80RT as a demo model with 500 miles on the odometer.

It was my first beemer, although beemers have been in the family since '68 or so. The R80RT was purchased by a friend when I got a K11LT. Then it went to another friend. The last picture of it I have is from 2003 and it was still looking pretty good.

 

[rdalland]

My first was a '71 R60/5 purchased in '79 in pretty worn out condition, for not a lot of money.

The oil stain belongs to a room mates car.

I took it apart for the hell of it.

Bought this '71 R75/5 in 1980, still have it.

 

[mistercindy]

My first BMW: an E30 1984 318i

I'm a literalist, and the thread title says "1st BMW," not 1st BMW motorcycle. So, here's a pic of my first BMW: an E30 1984 318i. The picture is not my car, but it looks real close: silver, sedan, blue leather interior, sunroof, manual windows, and 5-speed manual tranny. Mine was Euro and right hand drive as I was in Johannesburg, and it didn't have that ugly American front bumper that this one has.

Not great torque and only 104 horsepower, but it'd hit 140 MPH on the highway. And it weighed only 2,700 pounds (the lightest modern E90 3-series weighs 3,400 lbs). Most importantly, as the heart of any BMW car is handling, it handled like a dream. Great car.

 

[ted]

Pictured on Maine Rt. 27 on the last day of my first ever solo motorcycle trip, from DC to Meat Cove, NS to Islesboro, ME, back in 1996. I bought the bike about a year before after looking for several months. I left out of the trip report that after the bike caught fire at the foot of the Spaulding highway I changed plans on the spot from going to New Hampshire and Vermont to going up the Maine Coast by way of the dealer (to buy part# 16132307467) and then on to Canada to see how far east I could get - answer, the then little known Meat Cove, NS.

The bike was a great steed and served me faithfully up until trading it in for a K1100RS (which I later wrecked quite spectacularly.)

Not long after I went from Beemer to Bimmer with the purchase of a mint condition 1991 325iC with 25k on the clock, man I loved that car. I put over 125k on it in the five years I owned it exploring back roads far and wide, it was a great road trip car and aside from a bad fuel pump (changed out in a motel parking lot during a lightning storm) it never let me down. I foolishly traded it in on a new car a few years ago.

After an decade hiatus from owning a bike I am now back, after a several year search, with another K75 (that desperately wants to be painted red )

 

[toooldtocare]

86 R80RT purchased in Nov. 85 with wife on one of our trips. Second photo shows the BMW next to my then current ride, 79 Triumph that I tried to turn into a touring bike with a better seat.

 

[EMSimon]

My first BMW was just a BMW Motor. The chassis was built by a genius named Dieter Busch. It was 1975/76. Unfortunately during the times, only prints or slides were made. Most of them are lost. I am following the lead.
In 1978, I was able tor ide a friend's R100S for 6 months, because he had a bad car accident and couldn't ride for a while.

 

[erikj]

This is my first BMW. 2010 R1200GS.

And more delighted with this more than any other bike I've owned. More than any other reason is that it really makes me want to ride to absolutely nowhere and everywhere for no reason than other to be riding.