Thanks so much for sharing your passion. 👍 Ted is a very interesting character that I had the pleasure to interact with last year while volunteering at the NEMM. And thank you for making that experience possible 🏁🏍👍
I wonder, in the grand scheme of things, how many of those old BMWs were brought back to the States by U.S. military and civilian personnel after their service in West Germany. And I saw the popularity of old BMW motorcycles among Americans as a high school student in Frankfurt--Frankfurt American High School--in the mid-Seventies. And my Dad and a circle of his friends--all civilians overseeing big construction projects--bought and rode old BMWs and it was something that, for my Dad, wasn't far removed from his interest in British sports cars a decade earlier--he had Triumph TR3s and he was big into SCCA racing in California and even worked as a big-time engine builder for top drivers for a couple of years. And then we moved to Frankfurt and he was suddenly a huge enthusiast of BMW motorcycles--and then he returned to California with one, not a classic but a fully-faired BMW R100RS.
😈😈😈 Maybe Evel Knievel back in the day should have used the suspension components ofvthis bikes era or air craft suspension creations . If only he put his mind to it , he could have designed the first return valve on decompression Reservoir of those resistances 😈😈😈
😈😈😈 i remember trying to start a it 490 on stand withour decompression. It was terribly carburetion problomatic so just got a back fire , but then the thing fire off dead end centre ... she threw me straight over the hsngers , a metre in front of the bike ... i had to go into a front roll 😈😈😈 he aslo has a beach buggy and he wanted to swap me with mu car .. he had just rolled it and the roll bar rolled over his chest .. he was a big lad , like yourself but it still cracked a few ribs ... probably a normal build like mine back then , definitely dead with crushed chest . No coming back ... those it 490 's friggin hammer .. can you show one ... not the old ones .. newer plastic version bright yellow and blue i think ! 😈😈
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Thanks so much for sharing your passion. 👍 Ted is a very interesting character that I had the pleasure to interact with last year while volunteering at the NEMM. And thank you for making that experience possible 🏁🏍👍
love your videos! i never miss a single one, just a question, is there and reason why the quality is only 720p? i miss seeing ken and the bikes in hd!
Very informative on the bmw parts. And where not to get them.. brilliant as usual. Love the wizards information too.
Man, I love old BMW's.
Nice and knowledgeable elderly gentleman. Very nice looking bike that he has.
Such interesting and unique bikes, and that's an extreme understatement. Loved the stories with it.
What great guy, i wish this was in Georgia. Cheers
I wonder, in the grand scheme of things, how many of those old BMWs were brought back to the States by U.S. military and civilian personnel after their service in West Germany. And I saw the popularity of old BMW motorcycles among Americans as a high school student in Frankfurt--Frankfurt American High School--in the mid-Seventies. And my Dad and a circle of his friends--all civilians overseeing big construction projects--bought and rode old BMWs and it was something that, for my Dad, wasn't far removed from his interest in British sports cars a decade earlier--he had Triumph TR3s and he was big into SCCA racing in California and even worked as a big-time engine builder for top drivers for a couple of years. And then we moved to Frankfurt and he was suddenly a huge enthusiast of BMW motorcycles--and then he returned to California with one, not a classic but a fully-faired BMW R100RS.
😈😈😈 BMW old school vintafe bikes were made so well its ridiculous. . Heavy but strongly built ... don't you love the side ports 😈😈😈
What a motorcycle!!!!!! Both! ❤
A nother cool vid man.
Now that's definitely a great Ride...
Interesting story on how the bike was named. Poor guy almost had leg blown off and then catches himself on fire with same bike
😈😈😈 Maybe Evel Knievel back in the day should have used the suspension components ofvthis bikes era or air craft suspension creations . If only he put his mind to it , he could have designed the first return valve on decompression Reservoir of those resistances 😈😈😈
Awesome.
😈😈😈 i remember trying to start a it 490 on stand withour decompression. It was terribly carburetion problomatic so just got a back fire , but then the thing fire off dead end centre ... she threw me straight over the hsngers , a metre in front of the bike ... i had to go into a front roll 😈😈😈 he aslo has a beach buggy and he wanted to swap me with mu car .. he had just rolled it and the roll bar rolled over his chest .. he was a big lad , like yourself but it still cracked a few ribs ... probably a normal build like mine back then , definitely dead with crushed chest . No coming back ... those it 490 's friggin hammer .. can you show one ... not the old ones .. newer plastic version bright yellow and blue i think ! 😈😈
😈😈😈 friggin thing has a drive shaft 😈😈😈
😈😈😈 tell him sell one at 77 .. travel and do some trails 😈😈😈
😈😈😈 i think a harley of that error would have bedn more simplified and more reliable, ,, what were those german war bikes 😈😈😈
😈😈😈 any salt lake bikes in ckub 😈😈😈