BMW motorcycle Archives - Scooter in the Sticks Exploring life on a Vespa, Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda Trail 125, and a Kawasaki W650 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 05:09:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 71084491 iPhone Photography https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/02/iphone-photography/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/02/iphone-photography/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2017 05:09:37 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=7254 Lily and Junior — garden wrecking crew I have 7809 photographs on my iPhone.  The writing prompt challenge today asks that I post the 25th image I come to on the phone.  This photograph of our Belgian Sheepdogs is the 25th image from the end of the list.  Had I started from the beginning you […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/02/iphone-photography/feed/ 16 7254 Riding a BMW R nineT Motorcycle https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/06/riding-a-bmw-r-ninet-motorcycle/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/06/riding-a-bmw-r-ninet-motorcycle/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:02:55 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4835 I swear, I love my Vespa scooter.  Regardless of what I write from this point on remember that. The details aren’t important other than Kissell Motorsports put me in a position to be riding a BMW RnineT motorcycle.  I don’t follow the motorcycling world closely so I missed the unveiling of this bike as a […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/06/riding-a-bmw-r-ninet-motorcycle/feed/ 27 4835 Heat, Courage and the Jack Riepe Show https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/09/heat-courage-and-jack-riepe-show/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/09/heat-courage-and-jack-riepe-show/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:12:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=252 Note: Please accept my apologies for the decidedly untimely nature of this post. Circumstances beyond my control have me behind in my writing, riding and other creative enterprises. Hopefully this will be a welcome reminder of a summer fast evaporating and the real riding weather to come… Staring at the concrete underbelly of the grandstand […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/09/heat-courage-and-jack-riepe-show/feed/ 30 252 Decisions: The 1988 BMW R100 GS https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/04/decisions-1988-bmw-r100-gs/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/04/decisions-1988-bmw-r100-gs/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:43:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=289 A couple days after seeing my Consumption Therapy and Moto-Porn post Craig Kissell told me he would be taking a BMW R100 GS on trade and it would have my name on it should I want to buy it.  It seemed as if the universe was conspiring to have me become an owner of a […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/04/decisions-1988-bmw-r100-gs/feed/ 21 289 The BMW R1200 RT: Riding a Big Bike https://scooterinthesticks.com/2010/07/bmw-r1200-rt-riding-big-bike/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2010/07/bmw-r1200-rt-riding-big-bike/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:23:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=351 What’s big? When your everyday ride is a Vespa almost everything seems big. I’ll confess a prejudice towards large motorcycles and share my reactions as I tried out the BMW. The BMW R1200 RT fits neatly into my big motorcycle category with descriptors like heavy, lumbering, cumbersome, overpowered, and expensive. All of them negative and […]

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