Featured Delivery Yesterday...

Ade, I thought about your comment for a while and came to the conclusion, you might not be pulling my leg (although I never know with you )

Anyway, it is me on the pic.

BUT this here is my dad on the last bike he owned (some days back)...
And my mom (on the right) plus my grandmother. Huh! We are a rider's family




On the left Rabeneick SM 125; on the right Horex Regina 350

 

Great pictures, mates!

Don‘t you also think there‘s a very special mood about these old images. Maybe it‘s the ‚black&white‘, or the different dresses and hairstyles, or maybe it is just our knowledge of the bygone days...

@steve lovatt : D-Day made me smile... And I dearly hope, that we and our children are being spared from crossing the channel in arms. That sometimes worries me more than my eco-ideological footprint.

@Kenbro : You should have seen the weather over here since I brought the bike home.
It is raining cats and dogs and the occasional badger (at least their carcasses keep lying around in the ditches).
So unfortunately only about 80 klicks
I will keep you posted though! The weekend promises to be sunny.
Being very curious about the seat of the /5: is it better than on the Scrambler 1200 (@heartlander and I
were both not too excited about the latter)?

So, please bear with me

Cheers!

 

Well Steve, as you know: If you come in arms, no one is going to ask you for a clearance
(They‘ll be busy sticking their tales between their legs )

 

So we had a couple of good days over here and I tried to treat my childruns equally affectionate

All the things I wrote in the beginning still hold true. The /5 is a marvelous bike and I am really glad, I dared getting acquainted with BMW. Like Ducati, it was always on my wishlist, but I waited for the perfect fit.

Ken, the only thing, I would find ‚fault‘ with, is the seat. I guess, it definitely is no long range saddle.
After riding for about an hour, I get a pinching sensation in my inner right thigh (as if your briefs would get caught up with one single hair on your leg). That is: if I sit, like I am used to; which is pretty close to the fuel tank. As you can see, the seat slopes down at this position which looks great (same as on the Harley Iron 883) but I guess is not always the most comfortable solution.
Now, if I move my a$$ backward a couple of centimeters, everything is fine. I just sit a little bit more ‘sporty’
on the bike.
This all is no big deal, but it definitely is worth mentioning.
I will not change the seat though, since it is a special design for the /5 series (which looks gorgeous) and I will definitely keep the bike in original condition.

The thing which impresses me most about this boxer is its’ sound! Just try a NineT at a dealer in your area because it is hard to describe...
For me, it sounds and also feels very special (like with Harley, there is a subtle vibration and shake at traffic lights and when you take off again, it sounds a bit like a VERY subdued machine-gun; a kind of dry and very fast knocking-on-dense-wood-sound.

Being on the move is very much like on the new Thruxton R. The /5 feels very agile and nimble.
On the other hand: when parking the machine, I really do not feel the 80 Kgs weight difference to my Fat Bob. But I guess, this is due to the fact, that HD did a great job with the weight distribution there!

Ken, I hope, these impressions did help you a little bit. It is all very subjective stuff but it also is seen with the eyes of someone who had been shopping bikes abroad all these past years.

(Oh: nothing in my hangar that flies. I was grounded in 2014 with health problems and therefore my airborne days are over )

Cheers everyone!

 

...the heart it was with me too...
Since I was with the airlines, it was pretty tough shit for my wretched little soul

But congrats and welcome to the Gummikuh-Club!

719!? Did not yet find out, where the name derives from, but it’s high-end, bike loving, hands on production.
A little bit like Morgan, if you ever visited the Malvern based Company, you know what I mean.

They do the lining free-hand-stile. Grapevine has it, that the Romans started this way back on their chariots! (Those were the days, when their army was based on aggression, not regression )

 

Some Gummikuhnews...

I finally decided to treat my /5 to a little upgrade: A rev-counter (plus gear indication).
Did really miss this instrument and probably due to being 50+ always tried to shift into seventh gear

What do you think? (web-pic; part is ordered...)



I think, it also looks more classic than a single unit. The original one in the 70ies was integrated in the headlight-housing though...