Congrats! I dearly love my V1000G5. There is nothing like a Guzzi big twin.Got carried away on ebay a few weeks ago...a V11 Sport joins my EV in the stable
jblnut
Congrats! I dearly love my V1000G5. There is nothing like a Guzzi big twin.Got carried away on ebay a few weeks ago...a V11 Sport joins my EV in the stable
jblnut
Poor fit for me, inseam and stature incompatibility, high cg, cylinders where feet go. Otherwise, always admired the original Max Fritz config brought forward.I just added this one, my first ABS bike, my first 6-speed bike, my first telelever bike. Now it's one of 5 BMWs in my home.
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These oil-head BMWs have gotten so affordable I don't understand why everyone doesn't have one!
I should also have said "my first bike with height-adjustable seat". I've ridden BMW boxers now for over 46-years and the opposed-cylinder design never gets in the way of my feet. I guess it's whatever you're used to! The design would also seem to lower the center of gravity over any upright-cylinder design. Regardless, I'm just doing what the title of the thread asks . . . and enjoying riding maybe even more now than I did when I was eighteen!Poor fit for me, inseam and stature incompatibility, high cg, cylinders where feet go. Otherwise, always admired the original Max Fritz config brought forward.
I just added this one, my first ABS bike, my first 6-speed bike, my first telelever bike. Now it's one of 5 BMWs in my home.
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These oil-head BMWs have gotten so affordable I don't understand why everyone doesn't have one!
I was responding to the rhetorical "why doesn't everyone---?"I should also have said "my first bike with height-adjustable seat". I've ridden BMW boxers now for over 46-years and the opposed-cylinder design never gets in the way of my feet. I guess it's whatever you're used to! The design would also seem to lower the center of gravity over any upright-cylinder design. Regardless, I'm just doing what the title of the thread asks . . . and enjoying riding maybe even more now than I did when I was eighteen!
I understand. My first was a '71 R50/5 bought new in May of 1971. Rode it everywhere and with no prior experience with any other bikes, we meshed beautifully—except for the lack of power in the Colorado Rockies. One point of correction that I'm sure will register in your memories: Yours was an R75/5. I've owned two R27s, and held on to one of them, a white 1967 all still original. Interesting but one trip half-way across the country was about the last time I ever rode it as a serious way of getting somewhere. It has earned a place as the odd-ball single-cylinder shaft-drive anomaly that it is. I also owned a "brick"—K1100RS—briefly, but I guess I'm just a boxer guy.I was responding to the rhetorical "why doesn't everyone---?"
I've owned and ridden a few of them, from an R-26 thru an R70/5 to a 1000cc flying brick. The R70 was the least pleasant of the lot and the most work I ever did on a round the country trip in 1975, teething problems of a first year model new design not ready for prime time.
Thank for response.I understand. My first was a '71 R50/5 bought new in May of 1971. Rode it everywhere and with no prior experience with any other bikes, we meshed beautifully—except for the lack of power in the Colorado Rockies. One point of correction that I'm sure will register in your memories: Yours was an R75/5. I've owned two R27s, and held on to one of them, a white 1967 all still original. Interesting but one trip half-way across the country was about the last time I ever rode it as a serious way of getting somewhere. It has earned a place as the odd-ball single-cylinder shaft-drive anomaly that it is. I also owned a "brick"—K1100RS—briefly, but I guess I'm just a boxer guy.
Cheers!
I just added this one, my first ABS bike, my first 6-speed bike, my first telelever bike. Now it's one of 5 BMWs in my home.
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These oil-head BMWs have gotten so affordable I don't understand why everyone doesn't have one!
In another younger incarnation (me, not the bike), this is one I'd like to live with for a while.I just added this one, my first ABS bike, my first 6-speed bike, my first telelever bike. Now it's one of 5 BMWs in my home.
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These oil-head BMWs have gotten so affordable I don't understand why everyone doesn't have one!
Oh yeah! LOVE the CBX and always wanted one! The very thought of 6 carbs in our ethanol age scars the crap out of me! What a work of mechanical art!
Or this?https://goo.gl/images/HXbnn4Having six carbs wasn't the issie - trying to keep them synched up could kill a lot of time though.
PS ... always thought that was the kind of bike Deere would build ... <G>
Agreed. I've sold BMW cars as my vocation for over 40-years so I know how they can overcomplicate a machine to the point of sucking the life out of it. I find the seating position just fine. I'm 6'-1" and owned my first BMW RS back in 1977. My favorite bike over that time has been my 1981 R100CS. I even have Euro bars on my R69US. I recall an excruciating pain between my shoulder blades the evening I rode my first RS 100-miles home from the dealer. Got me worried—but it never recurred and I suppose my body adapted rather quickly. I didn't want an RT, or anything with that much Tupperware, so I think the RS and I will be just fine, thanks! And thanks for the tip on the tires and wheels. Good to know. I've got the hang of the bag mounts. I remember the first oilhead riders were always losing a bag!It is a very nice bike.
It was the last generation before BMW got crazy stupid adding questionable electronics and other stuff. They became more expensive and less reliable.
Hopefully, the windscreen and seating position work for you. A lot of people modified them into a sportier version of the RT.
Keep on top of the tire pressure. Those rims were prone to denting if the pressure was not where it was supposed to be.
Make sure you fasten the panniers properly. They have a nice mounting system that works nicely if attached properly.
Good luck with it.
They weren't an option, they came in every tool-kit on the /2 an /5s I've owned. Along with a tube-patching kit in a small tin box which I tried to use on a Sunday in South Carolina coming home from a rally, failing twice. Luckily the local dealer had opened his shop for those needing help heading home and had a new tube in stock.I still have the low voltage timing light I made for setting the points in the R60/5 in the motorcycle tool pouch I've carried for all bikes since, but I still can't find what I did with the superb optional BMW tire irons that went with it.
Reminds me of an incident on the Mojave during the 1975 round the country trip involving a rogue spoke end, a Latin American gent with an old pickup full of old tires providing a rescue lift, and a couple of sympathetic service efforts, the last successful.They weren't an option, they came in every tool-kit on the /2 an /5s I've owned. Along with a tube-patching kit in a small tin box which I tried to use on a Sunday in South Carolina coming home from a rally, failing twice. Luckily the local dealer had opened his shop for those needing help heading home and had a new tube in stock.
Agreed. I've sold BMW cars as my vocation for over 40-years so I know how they can overcomplicate a machine to the point of sucking the life out of it. I find the seating position just fine. I'm 6'-1" and owned my first BMW RS back in 1977. My favorite bike over that time has been my 1981 R100CS. I even have Euro bars on my R69US. I recall an excruciating pain between my shoulder blades the evening I rode my first RS 100-miles home from the dealer. Got me worried—but it never recurred and I suppose my body adapted rather quickly. I didn't want an RT, or anything with that much Tupperware, so I think the RS and I will be just fine, thanks! And thanks for the tip on the tires and wheels. Good to know. I've got the hang of the bag mounts. I remember the first oilhead riders were always losing a bag!
Harley baggers were notorious for shedding the lids, then the contents blew out onto the road.Yeah, losing a saddlebag sucks. Losing it with a camera, a bunch of tools and some other stuff REALLY sucks.