BMW question, NGC

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

hey Dan, maybe this puts some wind in your sails? https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=106344.0

[Ncdan]

hey Dan, maybe this puts some wind in your sails? https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=106344.0

Thanks BBQ, yea Antmanbee sent me this also. I’ll probably send a bid but it’ll reflect shipping cost so it will be a low bid.

[Tusayan]

In the end, the airheads do everything well enough for real world use. The oilheads have an edge, but it's not that great. Even though airheads aren't much slower, I think it still applies that it's more fun riding a slow bike fast.

I’ve ridden all of them, and I don’t think at all that an early R1100R is functionally better than a mid-90s R100R.  A few years ago I was amused to meet up with friends who do the Beach tours, mostly BMW mounted, and what were Rob Beach and I both using to corral groups on late model BMWs? Almost identical R100GSs.  The reason for that is that they work better, and longer, in Alpine service (the best test of a bike IMHO) than newer bikes that we both could have chosen. 

1990s airheads are not 1970s airheads, and 25-30 years after they were made there are people that still know it, that the last airheads are very functional bikes.  This is hardly a reaction to the new, anything made in the mid-90s is old, including an R1100R.  However, an R100R is reminiscent of some of the newer small block Guzzis, a good bike and lighter, better and more pleasant than a piggishly overweight, surging R1100 of any variety from that era long ago.

[ohiorider]

R100R were used in a fairly popular race 25+ years ago.  In the 1992-1995 time frame, BMW Motorrad of North America decided to sponsor a promotional race featuring riders who had raced in the 1950's, 60s and 70's.  Some were more current.

The factory provided the riders with matching leathers and mounted them on identical R100R bikes.  This race was held at Daytona Beach, during Bike Week, I think.  It proved popular enough with the fans that BMW sponsored the race at least 20 more times, at different tracks across the US.  By the time I saw them at Mid Ohio in 1995 time frame,  the riders had 'graduated' to identical R1100RS bikes.

But the first race and several subsequent ones pitted Legends such as Gary Nixon, Roger Reiman, Bart Markel, Jay Springsteen, and even Walter Zeller, in races that were fun to watch.  George Roeder came off his ride and really took a chunk out of his leathers.  Don Emde raced in the series, and wrote a very nice book covering all the races.

I still have the poster signed by Gary Nixon.  To this day, I'll remember his gravelly voice, and him asking "didn't I race against you?"  No, I'm not that talented!  He and Springsteen were good buddies, Jay carrying Gary's #9 on his bike too, with the colors flip-flopped.

Unfortunately, Roger Reiman was killed in an accident on the last race of the series.

https://www.bike-urious.com/1-17-1993-bmw-r100r-battle-legends/

[Tusayan]

R100R were used in a fairly popular race 25+ years ago.  In the 1992-1995 time frame, BMW Motorrad of North America decided to sponsor a promotional race featuring riders who had raced in the 1950's, 60s and 70's.  Some were more current.

The factory provided the riders with matching leathers and mounted them on identical R100R bikes. 

A friend of mine has or had one of them in as-raced condition.  My memory says it was Gary Nixon’s but it may be incorrect.

[Moparnut72]

I don't know if that was Gary or not but that is his number.  Reg Pridmore was the primo BMW pilot.
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