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Offline Bill

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2016, 09:46:10 AM »
I guess we have a case of Peter Pan .....
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Offline Brad-Man

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2016, 10:10:23 AM »
I'm 62 and in some ways - mentally anyway still young...

Physically I get a bit stiff at times...
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Offline Elipten

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2016, 10:33:38 PM »
Let us hope for you that stiffness is in the right place and does not occur when the doc does the prostrate exam!  LOL
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Offline kris

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #28 on: May 06, 2016, 01:53:01 PM »
57.....but I look 25. No, really....just ask anyone. No, it's true. I've hardly aged....Gryph? Tell 'em! :hehehe

Riding helps keep me young(er) at heart.
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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #29 on: May 06, 2016, 02:47:46 PM »
earlier post I was 62, now I'm 63, WTF?   Hope this does not screw up the demographics.
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Offline bocutter Ed

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #30 on: May 06, 2016, 07:30:07 PM »
I'll join you and screw up the demographics in July ... 63
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Offline Quiltzig

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #31 on: May 07, 2016, 05:11:49 PM »
I just turned 63, have had Bricks since my 40's.

Currently have:
2004 K1200RS in Piedmont red metallic
1997 K1200RS in black with silver fern emblems on it
1990 K75S Special Edition in Onyx Schwartz
1987 K75 in violet - this years winter project to turn into a cafe racer.

If anybody has the paint code for this violet / purple colour it would be appreciated.
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Offline Laitch

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #32 on: May 07, 2016, 05:40:59 PM »
If anybody has the paint code for this violet / purple colour it would be appreciated.
How will you be showing your appreciation, Quiltzig?
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Offline enb54

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #33 on: May 07, 2016, 07:04:22 PM »

1987 K75 in violet - this years winter project to turn into a cafe racer.

If anybody has the paint code for this violet / purple colour it would be appreciated.

For the OP I'm over 60 and under 70... I take it you (Quiltzig) don't have a paint code number under the seat? Mine is 675 (Red Metallic), perhaps yours is displayed here, although it is a site in the UK...  http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/colourcharts.htm . Hope this helps a bit...
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Offline Quiltzig

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2016, 07:14:32 PM »
The paint colour sticker is long gone, so no indication of what it should be. It is a rather nice purple / violet colour.
I have checked the paint codes but nothing seems to match with this year - 1987 K75S. Will talk to my bike painter mate & see if he can colour match it.
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Offline TrueAce

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #35 on: May 09, 2016, 02:09:24 AM »
Now that Prince is gone, why would you want a purple BMW?
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Offline franck

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #36 on: May 09, 2016, 01:35:37 PM »
I’m glad to see that I’m not the oldest…  I often think the motorcycling population should have been studied by Darwin – if you get past 5 years your in with a chance.  Or so I thought – some years ago I came to France to work and now retire – the greatest risk to my life is a car heading towards me, going too fast and on all sides of the road, driven by a young mother – children bouncing about in the back,  while she is on the phone having an argument or doing her makeup …. I keep thinking of Yossarian in Catch 22 when he said  “those bastards are trying to kill me”.  An excellent motto for defensive riding! 
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Offline bocutter Ed

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #37 on: May 09, 2016, 04:55:30 PM »
I often think the motorcycling population should have been studied by Darwin ...
Fortunately Darwin was pre-brick. Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)
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Offline Quiltzig

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #38 on: May 09, 2016, 07:02:08 PM »
If anybody has the paint code for this violet / purple colour it would be appreciated.
How will you be showing your appreciation, Quiltzig?
With many emoticons and some good humoured verse I would expect.
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Offline Quiltzig

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #39 on: May 09, 2016, 07:05:31 PM »
Now that Prince is gone, why would you want a purple BMW?
Cos I think it looks rather nice actually - and it saves me re-spraying parts that are in good nick - like the front fender etc.
Plus I can come up with all sorts of puns for names - Purple Rain for starters...
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Offline johnny

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #40 on: June 17, 2016, 08:23:45 AM »
 bmp
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Offline dglcinc

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #41 on: July 04, 2016, 08:13:10 PM »
First Beemer at 20 (R69S), first brick (K75S)...Umm... OK 51. Had friends that swore by them not at them, so I took the plunge, bought from original owner. Not as cherry as I thought but well maintained with 42K on the clock. Baby it way too much with new parts and work it doesn't need but lots of fun to work on and ride.
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Offline jjs1234

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #42 on: July 22, 2016, 12:40:11 PM »
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Offline White Dog

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #43 on: September 19, 2016, 04:28:59 PM »
Come January, I'll be 74 and happy to get back into even years.  This hasn't been the best of years.
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Offline AMS155

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #44 on: November 21, 2016, 05:34:40 PM »
36 years old here in Boston. I was 35 when I bought my K100RS brick.  Started with a R60/7 in my early 20's. 
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Offline TrueAce

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #45 on: November 21, 2016, 08:29:21 PM »
Age is a fitment of your self delusion. Or Punishment of the Motor Gods. So..........while at Barber Vintage Festival a clean '76 R75 caught my eye, or as Martin would say, grabbed me by the bollocks, pic below ( bike, not bullocks,Laitch). Brought it home last Friday from the PO after closing my wife's retirement IRA. Parked safely in my garage, I bent down to pick up my glove I had dropped, and to my chagrin, fell across the floor into a tool box. DID NOT spring to my feet cursing like Gryphon did when he knocked three bikes over. Thankfully the R75 was securely erect. Not so much my youthful, sprightly self. The bad news is the hospital said no riding/driving for 3-4 months, the good news, I had finished my winter work except for a handlebar swap.And no, whichever smartass is tempted to ask, I did not have my helmet on. :falldown:
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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #46 on: November 21, 2016, 09:05:48 PM »
Truace, you have the missing pieces stashed somewhere for that pre-K BMW?  Sorry to hear of your fall, winter is when riding gets fun, at least since I got the RPOS!
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1987 K75S    VIN 0231
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sold 6/23
2023 Ural 2WD sidecar (BMW's bastard step child)

Offline MaraudeRS

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #47 on: November 21, 2016, 09:10:32 PM »
35 years young and just got my first brick...a '92 k100rs


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Offline TrueAce

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #48 on: November 21, 2016, 09:20:44 PM »
Yes, Chaos, I have some of the stuff, and a couple seats, and I don't plan to keep that 2-1 pipe which is like new. BUT.........I'm gonna be a few days straightening out this hospital before I can sort through stuff. There is a neat fairing,too. PM me what you're looking for and Ill get to it soon as I can.
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Offline The Mighty Gryphon

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Re: What Age is the Average Motobricker ?
« Reply #49 on: November 21, 2016, 09:51:35 PM »
Ace, Hope you heal up quickly with no complications.  Seems like a tough time of year.  Last week my wife fell in the garage and broke her foot. 

Hope you will be able to at least do some wrenching on that new ride while you wait for the clearance to saddle up again.
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'91 K100RS16V "Moby Brick Too"

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'94 K75RT "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"
'92 K100RS16V "Moby Brick" (RIP, deceased in a vehicular assault)
'94 K75S Special Edition Dakar Yellow "Cheetos"
'89 K100RS Special Edition "Special Ed"

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