Re: BMW R90S - The Airhead
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:30 pm
Very nice. Think some back-story is needed!
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Keith, I can relate to that. The day I passed ny driving test my father lent me his metallic gold Hillman Hunter for a night out with my girl. I managed to spin the car driving rather too quickly around the Six Bells roundabout.KS wrote:apart from dumping the K100 on the Six Bells roundabout at Farnham, two-up the day after I'd collected it from BMW in Bracknell...
I had my wife (now ex-, but that's unrelated!) on the back - we were just on our way back home from the jazz club at the Maltings one damp evening. Set the bike up to do the left-right-left flick round the roundabout, cranked open the throttle as I was about to exit, eyes looking up the road when suddenly the back end went away from me. I slid next to the bike (still holding onto the bars...) while my wife went rolly-polly down the road. It all happened in front of an off-duty AA patrolman, who wandered over brandishing a length of steel pipe, about an inch in diameter. 'Saw what happened. You missed this with the front wheel but caught it with the back. Wondered when somebody was going to hit that.'Ferry Man wrote:Keith, I can relate to that. The day I passed ny driving test my father lent me his metallic gold Hillman Hunter for a night out with my girl. I managed to spin the car driving rather too quickly around the Six Bells roundabout.KS wrote:apart from dumping the K100 on the Six Bells roundabout at Farnham, two-up the day after I'd collected it from BMW in Bracknell...
Fortunately the car hit nothing and survived unscathed (my Dad never knew). I grew up fast that evening.
Tsk, tsk... you young tearaways! Happy days.Ferry Man wrote:I managed to spin the car driving rather too quickly around the Six Bells roundabout.KS wrote:apart from dumping the K100 on the Six Bells roundabout at Farnham, two-up the day after I'd collected it from BMW in Bracknell...
Thanks Martin, a beautiful bike and the nice 356 goes with it http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... =1&t=45547
Somebody say Guzzi?DEEMAN wrote:I had a Guzzi Le Mans after that which I part exchanged in 1977 for a R100RS
Found it!Mike wrote:Always thought it looked familiar.......
Yep, I like that Dan & very fashionable right now.. when there are articles about bespoke €35,000 cafe racers in the the FT, you know it's gone beyond the self build outlaw.squirdan wrote:Very cool I think