Hi greetings from Australia

[malcom]

Hi greetings from Australia, I have had 3 BMs over the last 30 years firstly an R80/7 for 5 years then a 74 R90S for 19 years (still spewing for selling it), and now an 85 R80RT mono. I bought this one from a friend, who had bought it for its fairing, he kept the good bits and this one had his dodgy RS fairing installed. It had been sitting in his shed for over ten years.
A few major changes have occurred since acquisition; I dumped most of the RT/RS stuff and it is slowly morphing into a poor mans R90S type tourer. I fitted a Siebenrock 1000 kit (http://www.siebenrock.com/en/products/t ... 00082.html). The performance was good before but since the engine transplant it is brilliant. Changes apart from the big barrels, include, alloy blinkers , round rocker covers, R90S bars, non BMW bikini fairing, clock and volt meters in pods, new seat cover, fork seals & gaiters, adapt set of panniers to fit, new cables, mirrors, SS brake line.

I live at Tomakin NSW a small beach town south of Batemans Bay; I’m a member of Eurobodalla (Moruya) classic car & bike club. The bike gets used most days on our magnificent motorcycling roads.

I tried to attach a photo but am told that "the board attachment quota has been reached"?

Cheers Mal

[Airbear]

G'day Mal, and welcome aboard. The bike sounds great - one of the best models out there, I'm told. I'm glad you have the proper breast-like valve covers. So nice to pat after a good ride.

Posting a pic involves having an account with a photo hosting website. You upload to there and get the link that will post the pic here. Google "free photo hosting" and choose one. You register with them in much the same way as you registered here, with a username and password. I use PictureTrail, which was free up to a point but once reaching 500 pics I had to start paying to add more. Not fussed, it isn't too much money per year. There are others that will always be free, I think. It is best to re-size your pics to around 800 pixels wide, usually.

Another inmate near you is Bob Bennett from Narooma with a very similar bike. And yes, the roads in your domain are indeed magnificent. There are quite a few members in SE Oz, and we get together a couple of times per year to bullshit around campfires. I look forward to catching up, and seeing the pics of your bike.

[Bob Bennett]

G'day Mal & Charlie,

Charlie Mal & I catch up most wednesdays and sometimes more often as I'm also a member
of that Classic and Vintage Club. Mal has expressed interest in joining us on the next Spring
Run so you will get to catch up maybe soon.

Regards Bob.

[Airbear]

Excellent. I did wonder if that was your club, Bob.

On a related note, I've heard that NSW is introducing a 60 day 'general use' logbook scheme like Victoria, rather than restricting rides to club events or maintenance rides. Sounds promising. You won't have to bribe the club officials when you want to go touring to far flung places. Best to have a few old bikes, of course. See you blokes soon.

[malcom]

G/day Bob & Charlie

Here's the R100 whatever at Mossy Pt, the clock & volt meter squeeze in well. A local panel shop did the paint work on the fairing & hand striping,they did a perfect job.







cheers Mal

[Rob]

Hell, just looking at the handgrips makes me want another airhead!

[Ross]

Hello from NSW Central Coast. Coast were it bloody rains hard ... lots of the time...

[Airbear]

Hello from NSW Central Coast. Coast were it bloody rains hard ... lots of the time...

Lucky bastard. We are already low on water here.

Mal, that is a very handsome bike.

And being a 1000cc '85 mono it'll have brakes and suspension as well as power. Well done.

[Ross]

Hello from NSW Central Coast. Coast were it bloody rains hard ... lots of the time...

Lucky bastard. We are already low on water here.

Mal, that is a very handsome bike.

And being a 1000cc '85 mono it'll have brakes and suspension as well as power. Well done.

I will bring some down in me panniers for ya mate.

[malcom]

Hi Rob, Ross & Charlie

I'm a bit late getting back; a few of us went up to Canberra for the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride over the weekend. DGR is a world wide Prostate Cancer charity ride. It was a brilliant weekend we rode up in light drizzle, (great) followed by a dry weekend and a great trip home. The point of the ride is to dress in ones finest, and there were many magnificent opp shop suits and tweeds on display. The ride itself went around Canberra up every hill or mountain and finished up at the “Kingo” a famous old landmark pub.

On the way up in the rain

Being a masochist I took my 69 Triumph Trophy, brilliant ride, nothing major fell
off; and the Triumph marked its territory appropriately at every opportunity.


After the operator and the bike were cleaned up.

I hope to catch up with the local group at the “spring sit round the campfire weekend”

Cheers Mal