It's hard to believe this photo is 20 years old.
I shot it the morning I rode from the Indianapolis BMW Club's rented chalet in Breckenridge, Colo. to Oklahoma City in the summer of 1988.
That's my 1981 BMW R100RS, sitting on its Reynolds Ride-off centerstand (it was a cool idea and I wonder why no aftermarket manufacturer is making them for current models) and my old Eclipse tankbag. The Eclipse was a bit too fat and got in the way of the grips when I turned the handlebars all the way in one direction or the other.
I put about 80,000 miles on the R100RS before I got seduced by the 1991 K100RS. That bike carried me more than 160,000 miles before I retired it in favor of my current ride, a 2003 K1200GT. As my GT sits in the garage this morning it has nearly 41,000 miles on the odometer. Add all of those miles to the 30,000+/- I put on my 1971 R50/5 and that give me about 270,000 BMW motorcycle miles. Hey, I passed the quarter-million-mile mark and didn't even notice.
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