ChrisLivsey
Veteran
Gullfoss Iceland
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tedwhite
Guest
Serious adventure bike for sure. It is so covered up with gear I can't tell what make it is, except that it's not a DR650.
ChrisLivsey
Veteran
Vince Lupo
Whatever
ermeso3
Established
FrankS
Registered User
ChrisLivsey
Veteran
kena
Established
Yam OW
Yam OW
Wayne Rainey's championship winning 500's that Yamaha gave to him. They are on display at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles.
Yam OW
Wayne Rainey's championship winning 500's that Yamaha gave to him. They are on display at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles.
MV72
Marc VERRIERE
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tedwhite
Guest
Vince Lupo
Whatever
Vince Lupo
Whatever
Had to take a shot of my bike while the fall weather here was still nice.....
Fall SuperHawk by Vince.Lupo, on Flickr
Fall SuperHawk by Vince.Lupo, on Flickr
tsiklonaut
Well-known
Wow! Some guys spend serious dosh on restoring and tuning old classics. Love 'em all but I'll probably never have enough money for this. Maybe when I retire I'll take some old BMW cafe racer project to kill my time.
As of now all of my moto money goes on travelling and just to keep it running. Here's my old, used and abused (counted 275 000 on clock) bike, most of you would laugh on my cheap rat bike and it's utterly battleworn condition:
Ethiopia.
Crossing Sahara.
Burkina Faso.
As of now all of my moto money goes on travelling and just to keep it running. Here's my old, used and abused (counted 275 000 on clock) bike, most of you would laugh on my cheap rat bike and it's utterly battleworn condition:
Ethiopia.
Crossing Sahara.
Burkina Faso.
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tedwhite
Guest
You've been to some truly amazing places, tsiklonaut. May I assume the 275,000 is kilometers rather than miles? What year is your oilhead? Or is it an airhead? Haven't been keeping up. Last BMW I owned was an R100R back in 1990.
tsiklonaut
Well-known
Yep, KM. It's a 1998 R1100GS, the last beemer made with care, since R1150 it was all downhill consumerist PR-thinking & -build-quality in the BMW factory IMO. I met an American mechanic with a 450 000 mile (720 000 km) 1994 R1100GS with still original motor (!!!) - bores, pistons, rings etc, he has only replaced wheel bearings and one set of gearbox bearings - just unbelievable build quality on the boxer motor side on the 1100 series.
My mileage is clocked mostly in abusive or extreme conditions though - the bike has 80 countries under its wheels, mostly third-world, all continents except Antarctica. The bike really looks like crap and other fancy shiny tuned $$$-oriented motorcyclists just laugh at my bike and me when I stop somewhere, but I'll probably put mine into living room when it's done - just for the memories and experiences it has brought, it has defined me in many ways.
Wife's having a snowball fight @ 5300 meters (17,400 ft) above sealevel.
Into stormy Himalayas.
Our Congo DRC lucky escape via Angola.
Hamer tribal men trying out my GS.
No cleaning (I almost never clean my bike) no polishing no bling no tuning no nothing, I enjoy the simple elegance in motorcycling - this where I belong when with my bike.
David Hughes
David Hughes
Griz
Old dirt tracker
Christine
Christine
Christine
Paulbe
Well-known
Griz---ahhhhh!! That Christine is a beauty! A LowRider? I have an '01 FXDX..
Can't beat 'em...
Paul
Can't beat 'em...
Paul
