Thanks for the memories.
I had a new R100T for 3 weeks until it got rammed and it’s replacement lasted a year but my wife hated pillioning on it and I wasn’t enjoying ownership that much anyway. Rusting exhaust pipes and an incurable gearbox lever shaft leak wore me down.
I got drawn in as my mate and his family all had Beemers so it seemed like a good idea
DavidS wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 1:12 pm
Thanks for the memories.
I had a new R100T for 3 weeks until it got rammed and it’s replacement lasted a year but my wife hated pillioning on it and I wasn’t enjoying ownership that much anyway. Rusting exhaust pipes and an incurable gearbox lever shaft leak wore me down.
I got drawn in as my mate and his family all had Beemers so it seemed like a good idea
HI i used to have a r100T i covered a lot of miles on that bike , pic 1980 nothern italy
The furthest we got was a week in Swanage with a different mate on his Le Mans Mk1. Two up with luggage was somewhat different between us. We came from Hastings, him from Uxbridge...we preferred our comfort level.
Probably did about 3000 miles in the year
Weird isn't it? I remember several of those ads from when they appeared. Unlike others on here, I see those ads and they take me back to a time when BMW boxer bikes represented everything I did NOT want in a motorbike!
I bought Which Bike magazine, then Performance Bikes; I ate a diet of GPZs, FZRs, Fireblades, then R6, R1 etc etc etc. The big heavy boxers were the pipe and slipper 'sensible' bikes for old guys and test instructors. Slow, weighty, ponderous and non-dynamic - completely different to the philosophy that drove the car division of BMW - and exactly what motorbikes shouldn't be. Thank goodness BMW eventually, belatedly, came up with the S1000RR and its variants, and developed and tuned the boxer into something much more interesting. I could just about see myself buying a Nine T Café Racer for instance.
As classic bikes with interesting character and solid engineering I can now really see the attraction of a nicely restored R80GS, especially a bumble bee. Lovely looking things. Not to ride, To look at. But as an 18-50 year old bike-obsessed scrote, they left me totally cold.