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Re: Re-print of the book ¡°BMW R90S¡±??
Mac
I've got one in perfect condition....so "No"
Bob
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 12:57 PM Harold < blueox25@...> wrote: Probably depends on the price.
Harold
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 10:55 AM Mac Kirkpatrick < drbeemer73@...> wrote: Rumor: We might see a re-print of the book ¡°BMW R90S¡±.?
Would you buy one?
More later,
Mac --
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
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Probably depends on the price.
Harold
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 10:55 AM Mac Kirkpatrick < drbeemer73@...> wrote: Rumor: We might see a re-print of the book ¡°BMW R90S¡±.?
Would you buy one?
More later,
Mac --
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
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Rumor: We might see a re-print of the book ¡°BMW R90S¡±.?
Would you buy one?
More later,
Mac --
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
C. Donahue
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That's awesome help Steve!?
Thanks,
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
C. Donahue
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 2:50 PM Steve Dudka < dudkar90s@...> wrote: Ken, In the interest of clarity, I've attached the following two photos. The first shows the 1-5/8 inch dimension I previously referred?to. The second shows the turn signal housing installed with the clamp fully engaged and with the tang in the slot. This leaves approx. 1/2 inch remaining for the fairing and associated washers, which is adequate. As for removing/installing the fairing, I gently spring one side at a time over the turn signal mount and have had no difficulties in doing so. I'm hoping the photos help as I'm really puzzled as to what's going on here. Regards, Steve Dudka
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 6:52 AM Mac Kirkpatrick < drbeemer73@...> wrote: Hang in there Ken and keep on plugging at it, something is amiss but you'll get it. I've seen the fiche be incorrect and also change. Most of you guys are being very helpful with Ken, thanks.
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
C. Donahue
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:58 PM Thomas Heinemann < evo34988@...> wrote: KEN ! There is nothing wrong with Teutonic Engineering whatsoever. It's just YOU ! Just get?the correct Stalks, don't be Cheap . If you can't figure this One out , then I just hope you never get a flat tire .?? Just saying
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:53 PM Richard Chawes2 via <rchawes= [email protected]> wrote: ?Can you send some pictures?? The signal housing should slide onto the tube until the clamp indent lines up with the notch. If it will not do this with the fairing on, it should do it with just the stalk. If it does, something is wrong with the fairing or the rubber bushing/ring etc.? When I got my 94 it had the short stalk ?from the /6 and they just left off some of the? spacers. Worked fine. Do you know if the S fairing is OEM? Perhaps it is but someone widened it. What is the measurement from side to side at the rear most curve? Richard ?Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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Ken, In the interest of clarity, I've attached the following two photos. The first shows the 1-5/8 inch dimension I previously referred?to. The second shows the turn signal housing installed with the clamp fully engaged and with the tang in the slot. This leaves approx. 1/2 inch remaining for the fairing and associated washers, which is adequate. As for removing/installing the fairing, I gently spring one side at a time over the turn signal mount and have had no difficulties in doing so. I'm hoping the photos help as I'm really puzzled as to what's going on here. Regards, Steve Dudka
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 6:52 AM Mac Kirkpatrick < drbeemer73@...> wrote: Hang in there Ken and keep on plugging at it, something is amiss but you'll get it. I've seen the fiche be incorrect and also change. Most of you guys are being very helpful with Ken, thanks.
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
C. Donahue
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:58 PM Thomas Heinemann < evo34988@...> wrote: KEN ! There is nothing wrong with Teutonic Engineering whatsoever. It's just YOU ! Just get?the correct Stalks, don't be Cheap . If you can't figure this One out , then I just hope you never get a flat tire .?? Just saying
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:53 PM Richard Chawes2 via <rchawes= [email protected]> wrote: ?Can you send some pictures?? The signal housing should slide onto the tube until the clamp indent lines up with the notch. If it will not do this with the fairing on, it should do it with just the stalk. If it does, something is wrong with the fairing or the rubber bushing/ring etc.? When I got my 94 it had the short stalk ?from the /6 and they just left off some of the? spacers. Worked fine. Do you know if the S fairing is OEM? Perhaps it is but someone widened it. What is the measurement from side to side at the rear most curve? Richard ?Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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Hang in there Ken and keep on plugging at it, something is amiss but you'll get it. I've seen the fiche be incorrect and also change. Most of you guys are being very helpful with Ken, thanks.
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
C. Donahue
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:58 PM Thomas Heinemann < evo34988@...> wrote: KEN ! There is nothing wrong with Teutonic Engineering whatsoever. It's just YOU ! Just get?the correct Stalks, don't be Cheap . If you can't figure this One out , then I just hope you never get a flat tire .?? Just saying
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:53 PM Richard Chawes2 via <rchawes= [email protected]> wrote: ?Can you send some pictures?? The signal housing should slide onto the tube until the clamp indent lines up with the notch. If it will not do this with the fairing on, it should do it with just the stalk. If it does, something is wrong with the fairing or the rubber bushing/ring etc.? When I got my 94 it had the short stalk ?from the /6 and they just left off some of the? spacers. Worked fine. Do you know if the S fairing is OEM? Perhaps it is but someone widened it. What is the measurement from side to side at the rear most curve? Richard ?Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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KEN ! There is nothing wrong with Teutonic Engineering whatsoever. It's just YOU ! Just get?the correct Stalks, don't be Cheap . If you can't figure this One out , then I just hope you never get a flat tire .?? Just saying
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:53 PM Richard Chawes2 via <rchawes= [email protected]> wrote: ?Can you send some pictures?? The signal housing should slide onto the tube until the clamp indent lines up with the notch. If it will not do this with the fairing on, it should do it with just the stalk. If it does, something is wrong with the fairing or the rubber bushing/ring etc.? When I got my 94 it had the short stalk ?from the /6 and they just left off some of the? spacers. Worked fine. Do you know if the S fairing is OEM? Perhaps it is but someone widened it. What is the measurement from side to side at the rear most curve? Richard ?Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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? Can you send some pictures? ?The signal housing should slide onto the tube until the clamp indent lines up with the notch. If it will not do this with the fairing on, it should do it with just the stalk. If it does, something is wrong with the fairing or the rubber bushing/ring etc. ?When I got my 94 it had the short stalk ?from the /6 and they just left off some of the? spacers. Worked fine. Do you know if the S fairing is OEM? Perhaps it is but someone widened it. What is the measurement from side to side at the rear most curve? Richard
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?Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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You can¡¯t be getting it quite right. I¡¯ve put my fairing on and off many times without much problem.?
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On 5/02/2022, at 9:56 AM, Ken Morgan <managing.director@...> wrote:
?Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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I would love to see such an article. I've collected maybe 15 magazines that have the R90S on the front cover and read other magazines and don't recall ever seeing that information in print. I've spoken to Udo Gietl about his work and he said the race bikes were made up of anything that would work best, from warranty?parts as well as non BMW parts. I recall him saying they used Chrysler rings for instance. And when the BMW race bikes were towed into the Daytona race track Cook Neilson famously said "I see we are well behind on our cheating" or something like that. Good times.
Mac Kirkpatrick Glenmoore, PA
"After all, what is adventure, but inconvenience, properly regarded?"
C. Donahue
I seem to remember a magazine article article on the 1976 R90S bike prep and the Daytona race. It included information on what was done to the bike as well as a full race report. Anyone know anything about this. It was probably in Cycle or Cycle World. Any link to that article would be appreciated.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??
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Steve,
Thanks for checking. I'm completely stumped now. I just can't push my plastic pods on far enough to get the clamps to tighten around the stalk. I've checked the parts diagram and I've got all the parts properly installed. I made a half inch extension to put on the end of the stalk. That would allow the clamp to do its thing but then I doubt I could ever get the fairing off again. I can't believe that a company like BMW with all that Teutonic engineering skill would have come up with such a terrible system for removing the fairing. That's the kind of thing someone in a back alley bike shop would devise.
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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How does the notch keep the signal pods from turning? I can't even get mine on far enough for the clamp to grip the stalk!
Ken
Eastern Ontario
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I seem to remember a magazine article article on the 1976 R90S bike prep and the Daytona race. It included information on what was done to the bike as well as a full race report. Anyone know anything about this. It was probably in Cycle or Cycle World. Any link to that article would be appreciated.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??
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Todd, I would very much like to join you when you set a date.? I will be traveling from San Diego, via Maine and Vermont on a mission to bring items to museums in Vermont.? As such, I will not be on my 1976 SS R90S, but in the RV instead.? It will be a real honor to be able to meet your guests.
Will there be a place we can park the RV (and hopefully stay in it)?? We are fully self-contained.
Harold Dorr
On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:18 PM Todd Trumbore via <motorrader= [email protected]> wrote: Reggie riding Butler & Smith's Formula 750 BMW, the predecessor to the R90S Super Bike.??
Of course we all know that Reg won the Super Bike Championship in 1976 on a Daytona R90S prepared by Race Team Leader Udo Gietl and machinist fabricator Todd Schuster....sadly Schuster is no longer with us.
Both Gietl, Schuster, Hans A. Muth, Gary Fisher and Tom Cutter were with us here in 2014 while celebrating the 40th anniversary of the legendary R90S.
Gietl & Cutter have returned with Hans A. Muth among other prominent guests on three separate anniversary occasions.
I've been working with designer Han A. Muth, Gietl, Cutter & George "Schorsch " Martin along with other guests possibly riding enthusiasts and notable author Peter Egan for a very special gala 100th Anniversary BMW Motorrad event to be held at my residence here in Harleysville, PA. I'm aiming for mid to? late September 2023.
Stay tuned as this progresses. Many more details on this later. Hope to see many of you join us for this event.
Happy Motoring, Enjoy the Ride,
Todd Trumbore? DVBMWR
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I like the modified valve covers...
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Yep! Best regards, Kirk Ratzel
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On 2 Feb 2022, at 03:04, Steve <stowne482@...> wrote:
? Is this the bike that was at the 40th R90S rally?
Reggie riding Butler & Smith's Formula 750 BMW, the predecessor to the R90S Super Bike.??
Of course we all know that Reg won the Super Bike Championship in 1976 on a Daytona R90S prepared by Race Team Leader Udo Gietl and machinist fabricator Todd Schuster....sadly Schuster is no longer with us.
Both Gietl, Schuster, Hans A. Muth, Gary Fisher and Tom Cutter were with us here in 2014 while celebrating the 40th anniversary of the legendary R90S.
Gietl & Cutter have returned with Hans A. Muth among other prominent guests on three separate anniversary occasions.
I've been working with designer Han A. Muth, Gietl, Cutter & George "Schorsch " Martin along with other guests possibly riding enthusiasts and notable author Peter Egan for a very special gala 100th Anniversary BMW Motorrad event to be held at my residence here in Harleysville, PA. I'm aiming for mid to? late September 2023.
Stay tuned as this progresses. Many more details on this later. Hope to see many of you join us for this event.
Happy Motoring, Enjoy the Ride,
Todd Trumbore? DVBMWR
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Oh yeah, Thanks! That was quite a sight to see:-)
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 12:26 AM Dennis O'Dell via <denniscodell= [email protected]> wrote: Steve,
Here¡¯s the bike at the 40th R90S Rally
Mit freundlichen Gr¨¹?en/With best regards,
Dennis C. O'Dell
> On Feb 1, 2022, at 18:04, Steve <stowne482@...> wrote:
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> Is this the bike that was at the 40th R90S rally?
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Steve,
Here¡¯s the bike at the 40th R90S Rally
Mit freundlichen Gr¨¹?en/With best regards,
Dennis C. O'Dell
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On Feb 1, 2022, at 18:04, Steve <stowne482@...> wrote:
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Is this the bike that was at the 40th R90S rally?
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