Barn Find

I have two vivid memories of lusting or coveting after something. As a child…one was a Red Rider B-B gun, but after several Christmases passing I gave up on that dream. The other, at a bit older age, was a motorcycle. My argument was you can’t shoot your eye out with a motorcycle…motorcycles are inherently safe.

I would spend hours daydreaming of riding off into the sunset just like in the show “Easy Rider”. So, you can call me middle age crazy but that’s not correct…I am closer to seventy than sixty. I guess it’s just old age crazy or just crazy.

The last few days I have felt like a kid at Christmas. I had no idea something could be so exciting. I haven’t been this excited about anything for a long time…and it’s all over a thirty two year old motorcycle. An antique that was forgotten…left in a barn for the last 29 years collecting dust and wasting away. The story goes…It was purchase new by this “Uncle Tio” in 1980. But parked upon his death 3 years later with only 9000 miles on it.

It is known to motorcycle aficionados as an “Airhead”, an R series BMW, the touring model with all the “stuff”…bags and trunks and fairings etc. And it’s all original, it’s all there…it has potential. Ok…so it will take a little work to get it going. Well, maybe a lot of work.

This is the bike of my dreams I hope the dream does not turn into a nightmare.