BMW Motorcycles

[VFRider]

Originally posted by koma@Apr 17 2006, 11:33 PM

let the good times roll~~~

now where is my green monster.....

Koma vs Cyclop:

 

http://www.supermotard.dk/video/head2head.wmv

[GSGabes]

Originally posted by koma@Apr 19 2006, 12:15 AM

Le eh bike simih dai ji??

Nothing serious.... just a minor oil leak... under warranty..... so small issue. a matter of a seal change... anyone got a 2nd bike to lend me? lol.

[mao]

Originally posted by GSGabes@Apr 19 2006, 10:37 AM

Nothing serious.... just a minor oil leak... under warranty..... so small issue. a matter of a seal change... anyone got a 2nd bike to lend me? lol.

I lend you la.... "public transport"

[GSGabes]

Originally posted by mao@Apr 19 2006, 04:07 PM

I lend you la.... "public transport"

hehehhe...

[wehrmacht]

hi 2 all, helping a fren 2 sell lazer y-pc for 1150gs 4 $380. interested party pls pm me with contact no. regards..

[SDR]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/03/25/mysteryship_wideweb__470x279,0.jpg

 

By Erin O'Dwyer and Rachel Browne

March 26, 2006

 

A GHOST ship, its origin unknown, has been found floating off the Queensland coast near Weipa.

 

Australian customs officers boarded the abandoned 80-metre vessel yesterday morning.

 

It was first spotted on Friday by a Coastwatch surveillance aircraft in the Gulf of Carpentaria, about 180 kilometres south-west of Weipa.

 

There was no one on board the ship and a broken tow-rope was trailing from its bow.

 

The ship has been identified as the Jian Seng, but its port of origin remains a mystery.

 

A large quantity of rice was found on board, but there was no indication of recent human activity on the ship and no evidence of people smuggling. The vessel does not appear to have been abandoned in distress.

 

"It really is a bit of a mystery," said an Australian Customs Service spokesman. "It is difficult to determine the origins of the vessel because there was very little in the way of markings on the ship.

 

"There was no identification documentation of any sort on board. It appeared to have been stripped clean. The name of the vessel is its only identifying feature and that is not a lot to go on.

 

"We don't even know where it is registered, if indeed it has been registered at all."

 

The spokesman said the ship had been abandoned some time ago and was probably under tow when it broke free. It's believed the ship may have been used to supply fishing boats with food and fuel in waters outside Australia's exclusive economic zone. The vessels' engines are inoperable and it is still drifting south.

 

The vessel is considered to be a navigational hazard and customs officers are liaising with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in the hope of securing the vessel.

 

It is the second ghost ship to appear in Australian waters in recent times. The Taiwanese fishing vessel High Aim 6 was found drifting off the north-western coast of Western Australia in 2003. It was sunk off Broome.

[Cyclop aka Sideways]

Originally posted by SDR@Apr 20 2006, 10:20 AM

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/03/25/mysteryship_wideweb__470x279,0.jpg

 

Any abandoned BMW bikes on board http://www.absolutepunk.net/images/smilies/headshake.gif

[SDR]

Originally posted by Cyclop aka "Sideways!&q@Apr 20 2006, 10:42 AM

Any abandoned BMW bikes on board http://www.absolutepunk.net/images/smilies/headshake.gif

No BMW bikes but may be the MAN engine or diesel gernerator...

[SDR]

http://w6rec.com/duane/bmw/club/club1.jpg

 

This R25/3 graced our living room for several years. We hope it will soon be mounted on the wall above the sofa shown in the center, just behind the fan. We restored this bike in 1974 at BMW of Marin, my old dealership. We had three of this model to use for parts. A second one was assembled out of parts and we called it "The Stingle" after the then current movie "The Sting." It ran very well and was made with attractive, but some wrong parts. The remainder was mostly a useless pile of junk.

 

This photo has led to a new BMW club for people with a R25/3 in the living room.

 

I am sad to say that this lovely bike is now sitting out in the shop and collecting dust. It is my fault, don't blame my wife, as I only need to make a mount and lift it up onto the wall directly above the sofa.

 

Interesting...

[SDR]

http://www.beemergarage.com/photos/cup.jpg

 

A coffee cup with an interesting history. A US Army soldier brought home a few souvenirs from WWII. Written on the piece of tape on the side of the cup are the words "Cup from the Bavarian Motor Works factory, May 1945, Munich".

 

Kopi any1?

[SDR]

http://www.beemergarage.com/photos/comic.jpg

 

loosely translated it says "Hey look, a Guzzi with sagging boobs".

 

[SDR]

http://www.beemergarage.com/photos/bmwchop.jpg

 

Here's a BMW chopper that was for sale recently in Germany. BMWs don't usually make good choppers, but whoever did this did a damn nice job!

[SDR]

OIC...

 

Bimmer vs. Beemer

 

 

updated June 2003

 

It has come up time and again in the BMW CCA Roundel and all over the planet. We gotta keep covering this issue till the world gets straightened out.

 

It's a simple, painless lesson. Learn now and avoid embarrassing yourself in front of other car enthusiasts.

 

It its history, BMW has made cars, motorcycles, and aircraft engines. There is no confusion surrounding the aircraft engines, so lets move on to the cars.

This is a BIMMER. I don't have to tell you that this 2004 M Coupe features FOUR wheels. (Photo coutresy BMW NA)

Bimmer

 

BMW cars are called Bimmers. Say BIM-mer. If you are a New England native or want to sound like one, say BIM-mah.

 

That's what this club is about, BMW cars. Bimmers.

 

Bimmer is also is the official name of the Newsletter of the Boston Chapter. It has been published continuously since 1970. From sometime in the 1990s to March 2000 the newsletter was called BIMMER (all uppercase). Justin Hughes, the current Editor in Chief changed the name back to Bimmer. Then Suzin Koehler became the Editor and changed the name to Boston Bimmer.

 

Bimmer Magazine is based in California and has nothing to do with the Boston Chapter, even though it is a very nice magazine.

 

But wait, here's the important part.

This is a BEEMER. BMW Motorcycles have two wheels. (photo courtesy BMW Motorcycles USA)

Beemer or Beamer

 

BMW motorcycles are called one thing but it is spelled two ways. Beemers or Beamers, you just say BEAM-er. Or maybe BEAM-uh.

 

This is very simple. Motorcycles have two wheels. Beemers have two wheels.

 

In that photo to the right, how many wheels do you see? Two wheels? It's a Beemer.

There is no Grey Area

 

Now some smart guy in the audience always says "What about a motorcycle with a sidecar?" The sidecar has one wheel. The motorcycle still has two wheels. It's a motorcycle with a sidecar.

 

What about some guy on a motorcycle pulling a trailer? Same thing: motorcycle has two wheels, trailer has one wheel. Just like a car pulling a trailer. The car still has four wheels, and the trailer has some non-zero number of wheels.

Mini and Rolls Royce

 

Now some new Mini owners have gone around saying that they own a "Bimmer". This is probably because the Boston Chapter lets the Minis run in the BMW autocross classes. (So far, nobody has wanted to autocross their Rolls-Royce. I wonder if a Rover produced in the BMW Group rules would be allowed into the BMW classes?)

 

A MINI is not a BMW. Look at the hood. Is the spinning blue-and-white propeller there? No sir. It isn't a Bimmer, Beemer, or Beamer. But it is made by BMW, so lots of people consider it a BMW. But it's still a MINI.

This is an Isetta. It was a car made by BMW. It is not a motorcycle. Look carefully and you can count 1, 2, 3, 4 wheels. Yep, Isettas are really Bimmers.

The Isetta

 

What about the BMW Isetta? No the Isetta really had four wheels, not three wheels. Legend has it that the Isetta saved BMW from bankruptcy during some very lean years in the 1950s.

 

Isettas are goofy looking small cars, not goofy looking big motorcycles. Look at the photo: four wheels. Therefore they are Bimmers.

Where did this come from?

 

Why are the bikes called Beemer and the cars called Bimmer? A Very Highly Placed BMW Spokesperson sent me the following (reproduced here with permission).

 

While I can't point to any official document that supports this, my understanding of the origins are as follows.

 

The term Beemer was first used with motorcycles. Back when British bikes dominated the market and BSA was a well-known marque, riders referred to them as Beezers -- a way to say the letters BSA as if it were a word.

 

BMW riders said Beemer as a way of saying BMW as a word. This was long before the popularity of BMW cars, so whenever the term Beemer was spoken, it referred to the motorcycle. In theory, one could apply Beemer to either cars or bikes since it is only a reference to the name BMW. In fact some folks do call BMW cars Beemers.

 

When the cars became popular, many people referred to them as Bimmers as well as Beemers. I don't know why this was adopted instead of simply using the existing Beemers.

 

But generally speaking, one calls the bikes Beemers and the cars Bimmers. While it would be ok to refer to a car as a Beemer, it doesn't seem appropriate to refer to a bike as a Bimmer.

 

Well I don't think its OK to call a car a Beemer. Wouldn't that be confusing? What if we called a knife a fork? A nuclear bomb a toothbrush? A politician honest? Or a car a motorcycle? Confusion. Anarchy. What next? A total breakdown of communication. Possibly the end of civilization or even nuclear holocaust.

 

Where was I? Oh yeah, other than letting people call stuff the wrong name, this BMW spokesperson is right on.

 

To sum up and in order to avoid confusion, let's just say that Beemer is the label for BMW motorcycles, and that makes Bimmer the preferred label for BMW cars.

It's Simple

 

Here's all you have to remember. If it has fewer than four wheels it is considered a Beemer (or a Beamer).

 

Then all you gotta do is think to yourself: how many wheels does my BMW have? Four wheels? Yep! Bimmer.

 

Unfortunately, there is at least one BMW CCA Chapter with the word Beamer in the title of their Chapter Newsletter. How this came to pass and why it hasn't been corrected is a mystery. All we know is that the chapter is located in California, which may be explanation enough.

Now You Know

 

So, now that you know, what do you do with all that knowledge?

 

Look carefully at the cover of the official Boston Chapter BMW CCA publication at the right. See that word in red at the bottom?

 

Please say BIM-MER or perhaps BIM-MAH.

 

If somebody calls your car a Beamer, you may want to correct them if you care at all about how foolish they appear to be... I mean I'm sure I would want to be told if i was confusing a car with a motorcycle or I had a sesame seed stuck between my front teeth or something.

 

If you decide to try to correct someone else less in the know than yourself, please be gentle. Remember, they don't have to call your car a Bimmer.

 

This issue can be very sensitive to some people who will absolutely insist that they drive a four wheeled Beemer. If you get into an argument with somebody... from let's say California... just let it go, say "let's agree to disagree" or something like that, and be secure in the knowledge that you will never embarass yourself again by calling a Bimmer a Beemer.

 

Thank you for your support.

 

Bimmer vs. Beemer

[SDR]

What is this for?

 

http://www.steliosh.net/moto/gs1100/images/rosenbauer_fox.jpg

[SDR]

http://www.steliosh.net/moto/gs1100/images/fox.jpg

 

The Austrian firm Rosenbauer builds this portable pump, based on an R-1100 twin, complete with a huge fan for its cooling. Speed freaks do not need apply here; its power is a modest 41kW, at 4500 rpm only!!!!!

[mao]

Anyone interested in Pelican M6 Flashlights??

 

MOdel: M6 2330 (comes w/cordura pouch)

Luxeoon 1 watt LED

2 CR123 Lithium Battery

 

Local Retail: S$165.00 (164. something la)

Now can get: Approx $95.00 or so.

 

Check out specifications here .... Pelican Small Lights

 

Let me know who is interested cos a supplier just offered me some excess inventory. If ya all want then I contact the chap.

[Julian.T]

http://www.pelican.com/imatges/m6_led.jpg

 

Let me help post the pic..

[GSGabes]

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/slayers/2003/shakes.jpg

 

[GSGabes]

Was on the way to Woodlands... and......

 

http://www.luiemotorfiets.nl/tips/angst/F1010003.jpg

[GSGabes]

Now u tell me... whos doing the real cornering..... kekekke..

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~downthemountain/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pict7200c.jpg

[Cyclop aka Sideways]

Originally posted by GSGabes@Apr 21 2006, 06:10 PM

Now u tell me... whos doing the real cornering..... kekekke..

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~downthemountain/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pict7200c.jpg

The one who's taking the picture

 

Not easy thou, ride the bike, corner, twist body around, level the camera and take picture :D

[maxxmadness]

hey Gabes,

 

look what they did to your orange fazer,....overseas that is...hehehe

 

http://www.devilsyam.com/images/2005_1125orange0079[1].jpg

[GSGabes]

Originally posted by Cyclop aka "Sideways!&q@Apr 21 2006, 06:42 PM

The one who's taking the picture

 

Not easy thou, ride the bike, corner, twist body around, level the camera and take picture :D

Ok dude...the next time we ride... I will try and do that....

 

Highest level of riding.... kekekekke..

 

[GSGabes]

Originally posted by maxxmadness aka 35@Apr 21 2006, 08:42 PM

hey Gabes,

 

look what they did to your orange fazer,....overseas that is...hehehe

 

http://www.devilsyam.com/images/2005_1125orange0079[1].jpg

Goodness gracious... is that gonna be in a drag race?! kEKkekek.

 

Wonder hows the orangy Fazer now... hehehe... miss him....

 

[maxxmadness]

it is mod to become a draggie...

 

http://www.devilsyam.com/images/2005_1125orange0077[1].jpg