Posted by dorayme on 12/01/07 19:59

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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > .. I have never ridden a BMW except very briefly a 900S in about 1976
> > and it was something to die for then...
>
> I understand. Was it SilverSmoke or Daytona Orange?
>
The former. The thing that stunned me was the smoothness and
sheer acceleration. Before that, my Triumph would be very much
quicker and nippier than the cruising BMWs I knew about, the
Trophy frame was a beautiful handler. But This 900S blew away all
my preconceptions. I was starting to get the message of a new era
when all the Jap bikes were coming into Australia (I sort of
regret never having one of those magnificent Honda 750s...)

> I had a 1974 R90S, serial number ..000058. <g>
> I still have a 1977 R100RS, number ..000040.

You are one lucky dog then. Perhaps I should not have seen
raising a family as a time to give bikes up. To think, I could
have died *gloriously* on a bend through the magnificent winding
roads through the forests down near Eden on the south coast of
NSW when a timber truck comes around from the opposite direction
leaving almost no room... <g>

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dorayme

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