Comments on: BMW R69S

By: Mule

Mule — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:31:44 +0000

@Al, Thats greast! Quote of the week!!! “The glass is twice as big as it needs to be!”

By: Thiago

Thiago — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:37:19 +0000

Me like it alot. Sexy and looks fun!

By: Al

Al — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:58:21 +0000

….it might just be part of HIS ‘evolution in bike design’…just like US humans in general…we are just at the beginning of it all…
cudos to creativity anyday…imagination is more important than knowledge A.Einstein….encouragement my friend…encouragement…just like for children…or as they say…the glass is half full…half empty…for the engineer its twice as big as it needs to be…go RITMO…go

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:32:43 +0000

@Ethan

There are far stupider things to read on the internet. If you think that’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever read, you must be new to this internet thing. Try 4chan. LOTS more stupid things to read on that site.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:30:32 +0000

@el vencejo – I didn’t say that BMs were rare, but there are lots of ways of making a BMW look great before adding parts that just don’t belong on the bike. It’s a vintage bike to begin with. I just think it’s a bit of a waste by putting parts on it that just don’t suit the bike. I mean that faring has as much to do with that bike as the fairing of a brand new hayabusa … and to me looks just as awkward.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:26:49 +0000

@el vencejo – good luck bringing any of those asian girls home on this bike. I suppose asking them to come over to your house on the bus is too much to ask.

By: Mule

Mule — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:30:48 +0000

When I was a kid, we built model cars by the dozens. We tried all sorts of wacky combinations. After a while you’d begin to see what looks pretty good, what looks like crap, what’s too much of a good thing etc. It seems in this day and age guys are doing it with full sized motorcycles. Its a lot more work and expense to build up a theory into a viewable piece of hardware just to learn the same basic lessons. Except guys get all pissed off when you state the obvious. “Why don’t you build one then?”

To me this bike is sort of an odd combo of parts/styles. Yes, there is such a thing. It may be exactly what the the builder was trying to achieve and then again, it could merely be what he ended up with when he was done and put the wrenches away.

Something I’ve noticed on this site that is one of it’s unique traits: If you set an old piece of crap on fire, dipped it in mud, made it a hardtail or in someway unridable, polished a couple parts on it, added knobbies and had a picture of a guy blazing down the Autobahn, there’s a shitload of people that would love it and think its cool! Bike building is way easier than I ever realized.

The fairing and seat sorta don’t match the “style” of the bike, the front wheel is a 17″(?), the pipes have an overheated/melted look like they are hanging or drooping really low. He confuses me again with a drum front (I really like that hub) and plunger rear suspension, then he sweeps 180 degrees to billet pegs and FCR carbs and later forks. Yes, if you’re going to use a drum, take the caliper lugs off! Too many themes or styles crashing into each other. I think sticking with any one of them would have been great, but not all styles at once. I would love to build one of these air cooled BMW’s but I would tend to focus on one style I think.

Since we can’t ride, sit on, feel, smell, hear or lift the bikes featured here, really all we can do is critique pictures of bikes and the styles they portray.