Upcoming New England Events

[SteveADV]

Southeast Ohio is pretty great. I had down there often. Not a lot of places to rent bikes and if you are on business you probably don't have time anyhow, but if you do....Let me know and I'll hook you up with something and ride with you if I can.

 

[Snowdog]

It's a deal. I am going to West Virginia in June for a week. Do you have any favorite rides there?

 

[SteveADV]

No special rides. I head down I-77 and then get off the highway to explore.

 

[ItsPhilD]

That is a tremendous area to ride. I miss it for that reason.

 

[Snowdog]

I was in Asheville NC on business this week, wish I had my bike!! I did a few miles on the Blue ridge Parkway in my rental car I can see why guys rave about it, one curve after another!!

 

[JaimeC]

Back on topic: Upcoming New England Events, my favorite is back again this year:
CRVBMW -- Charter Oak Rally

Hope some of you Nor'Easters can make it.

 

[Snowdog]

Back on topic: Upcoming New England Events, my favorite is back again this year:
CRVBMW -- Charter Oak Rally

Hope some of you Nor'Easters can make it.

Not far for me, I'll check my schedule.

 

[JaimeC]

We need a scooter invasion of that rally. I think a lot of traditionalists don't consider our scooters "REAL BMWs." Of course, when the K-bikes came out in the early 80s they faced the same stigma.

 

[Snowdog]

We need a scooter invasion of that rally. I think a lot of traditionalists don't consider our scooters "REAL BMWs." Of course, when the K-bikes came out in the early 80s they faced the same stigma.

Are you saying "K" bikes ARE real BMW's?

 

[JaimeC]

Best T-Shirt I can remember seeing at a rally said: "Real BMWs have TWO wheels..."

 

[Snowdog]

What didn't the naysayers like about the K bikes?

 

[JaimeC]

That they weren't air-cooled, push-rod, 2 cylinder boxer engines, of course.

 

[justscootin]

They were saying that K bikes were not real BMW. Bikes because they had 3 or 4 cylinders
My dealer at the time said to me the technology was in cars and had more miles on the style of engine than R bilkes

What didn't the naysayers like about the K bikes?

 

[Snowdog]

I knew you guys would say this. I wonder where technology would be today if we didn't have such thinking. Would Leonardo Di Vinci have actually built a helicopter which he designed on his IOTA Pad ? At least now we don't have to worry about being burned at the stake for coming up with a good idea! ( I hope )

 

[Snowdog]

Although, I was a little disappointed when BMW got away from the Black with white pin stripping ( I liked white with black pin stripping too), I still didn't condemn them !
Oh, and what did the naysayers think of a R26? Was that not a BMW? Yep, all very silly.

 

[SteveADV]

Or, we could ride in on Penny Morgan's favorite BMW scooter...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YrY3v1eDmQY

Wait for it. It's there.

 

[Snowdog]

Interesting, when she gets on the bike it has no roof, when she twists the throttle and starts moving, it has a roof!!

 

[JaimeC]

The other negative regarding that old "Flying Brick" was that it was NOT a German design. It was adapted from a Peugeot automobile engine (French). Shame they stopped making it, though. The flying brick was probably the most indestructible engine ever put in a motorcycle. I'm closing in on 200,000 miles on mine with no top end work whatsoever. I've heard of others putting well over a half million miles on theirs. BMW decided they wanted in on the "Horsepower Wars" and the under-square flying brick was just never going to be able to deliver so out it went to be replaced by a very Japanese-like transverse inline 4 (and now an inline 6 as well).

 

[Snowdog]

No matter what configuration your engine, I fear that materials in it's construction are more important. I suspect BMW having an aviation beginning understood that and chose wisely. I must say that since I started as a mechanic in the sixties, the reliability of cars, trucks, and motorcycles has undeniably increased. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for other mechanized equipment, with consumer cost driving quality.

 

[SteveADV]

No matter what configuration your engine, I fear that materials in it's construction are more important. I suspect BMW having an aviation beginning understood that and chose wisely. I must say that since I started as a mechanic in the sixties, the reliability of cars, trucks, and motorcycles has undeniably increased. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for other mechanized equipment, with consumer cost driving quality.

Interesting, and IMO really true re: consumer cost driving quality.