This is a funny looking BMW bike

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This is a funny looking BMW bike

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Appears to be some kind of Frankenstein'd rat bike. He rides it well though.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/capfacsurf/4455988907/
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Looks like a old, oil cooled, GSXR to me.
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That is one odd collection of rolling parts. I think the only thing BMW is the roundel on the tank.

Love the sparks from the dragging pegs.
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Blasphemy!!
What is happening to my skin?
Where is that protection that I needed?
Air can hurt you too
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At last a reliable BMW :mrgreen:
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celticus wrote:Blasphemy!!
You want BLASPHEMY check this out:
xprof wrote: I ended up mounting the Extenda behind the entire light/license plate holder, using three 2 1/2" quarter/twenty bolts, washers, and NyLok nuts.


I'm shocked !!!, SAE bolts on a Beemer, and this from a long time member with multiple Beemers. [-X
I hope no one from the MOA or Vintage Beemer Club sees that post. I dread to think what will happen when Don E realizes what has happened to one of the Fatherlands finest machines. I'm speechless (almost).

Even I, who without hesitation have cut, what I consider, unnecessary parts off my /5 with a reciprocating saw take care not to mix SAE and Metric, somehow that just seems perverted and against the natural order of things. It's surely against the law in Germany.
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Sorry to offend, Harry! What can I say? I just used what I had in my jar of orphaned bolts. Now I can never enter Valhalla...
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Dang Harry, If that is "speechless" for you I hope I have the time to spare when you are in a loquacious mood.
I think there really IS a law in The Father Land banning the making of beer using rice.

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Where is that protection that I needed?
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celticus wrote:What is happening to my skin?
Where is that protection that I needed?
Air can hurt you too
I recommend Jojoba oil for that...
It is a natural organically certified wax/ether
similar to sperm whales that is also naturally SPF 3 to 5.
You can shop an extremely pure and condensed extract of it
from those peoples -> http://www.laronnajojoba.com/

Seriously Celticus :) Ah Ah !
Pain is Ignorance this is why it really hurt...
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