Subject: Re: Farewell Patience
Author: Leon Karlak
Date: Jun 26, 2003, 8:36 AM
Post ID: 1713542459
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--- Keith Ruff <klru-@fcc.net> wrote:
| Well, the auction closed without reserve being met. Nearly 1800 hits to the auction, several e-mails, several trade offers, and one gent from PA driving 3 hours to see her with his wife, both drooling when they saw her. This gent, Scott Goetz, has quite a collection of 12 vintage bikes and 3 vintage cars. He ended up being the high bidder, but didn't meet reserve. Scott wanted Patience bad so he bellied up to the bar and met my reserve price after the auction and off went Patience to PA into a collection of BMW vintage machines. He plans to put historic plates on her and use her for longer rides with his spouse, the other vintage Beemers will be used for short trips and shows. Really nice guy, very appreciative of what Patience is and loves the original paint work - she wll be in great loving hands. In the meantime, I will be going back to my routes, agreed on a purchase of a 1978 Smoke Red R100RS with a super nice gent out of Oklahoma City. He originally wanted to trade his bike + give me an additional $2K for Patience. This RS was born an R100S (78 RS's didn't come in Smoke Red, only the R100S did, and the VIN # confirmed it) but a previous owner converted it to an RS. Not hard to do at all as in 1978, the only difference between an RS and an S bike was the fairing, all mechanics were identical. So now I will be getting an RS in my absolutely favorite color. I had a 78 R100S in this color before, sweet. The current owner believes it has been repainted, but to me, that is great because it looks so much better than the original smoke red which was more of a bright faded red-orange. This bike has upgrades galore with frame, fork, and swing arm braces, progressive fork springs, Koni rear shocks, new Metzelers, rebuilt rear brake caliper/pistons/new pads, and a total BMW servicing including all new fluids, spline lube, replacement of a final drive seal that was weeping, synched carbs, and tune-up. I spoke with the BMW mechanic that worked on her and he confirmed this is a solid bike with no known problems to be addressed, only needs to be ridden. He said she is a real head turner and draws a crowd whenever she shows up at the shop. This is a turn key operation, can't wait to get her. She is supposed to be shipped out next Tuesday and it will take 6-8 working days for her to arrive. Here's some pix, click on the "Next 7" text at this link as the RS pix are the last 5 in my yahoo pix folder: |
I'll keep in touch on this board, thanx for all of the help with Patience during the last 3 years, this is a superior group of fine and helpful gents. Now I need to find a board as good as this one for this BMW boxer, anybody know of one? Keith Ruff 78 Smoke Red BMW R100RS - NJ |
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