Tuesday, January 18, 2011

BMW Motorcycle Love Story

Here is the lead in as found on YouTube:
This is a photo story of my father's 1958 BMW R50:
Boy meets girl, gets married, buys motorcycle. Rides it for 60,000 miles and has accident when wife is pregnant with 3rd child. (me) Wife orders motorcycle to be taken off road until all her children are grown and on their own. One day when bike is moved to a different storage location, son sits on bike and dreams of being a Jedi Master like his father. Couple grows old together and bike is not ridden for 40 years. Husband is now a grandfather of 7 and married for 50 years, when he dies of a stroke at age 71.
Son looks over the old rotting machine and finds note attached to it from his father to him. Son decides to restore the old 1958 BMW R-50 as a tribute to his father. With the help of many friends, especially Peter Nettesheim, world renowned BMW collector, bike is restored to look even better than it did when it was built in Germany.


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Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Year's Day Motorcycle Rides

It is somewhat of a tradition to attempt to ride on New Years Day.
In New Hampshire, this is not always easy.
As of Monday, I would have said impossible.
I was up to my bumper in snow.
Dude where is the rest of my car?

But alas this is New England. We need only to wait a minute..or in this case 4 days.
It was 50 degrees and there was a eat to ride to be had.
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Seeing as there had been a snow storm earlier this week...there was quite a lot of road salt.
Pass the salt

More evidence of bike abuse
bike abuse

Only one thing to do...car wash
wash me

I hope you ushered in the new year in a way that made you smile.
And may all our roads be smooth this year.

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