Blue Moon Cycle

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36 Years

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I first became interested in BMW motorcycles in 1974 when the new BMW R90S made the cover of the March 1974 issue of Cycle Magazine.
It was love at first sight. The R90S was the most expensive motorcycle on the market. Despite my $4/hr. job, price was no object for me. I sold everything I had from my 21 years on earth and managed to scrape up the $3000 required to buy the first used R90S to come on the Chicago market. What a bike it was: top speed over 120 mph, café fairing and the sexiest paint job (silver smoke) ever to leave a factory. My Harley friends didn't understand, most of them were still riding sportsters and choppers but I didn't care. That BMW took me across the USA 5 times in the next 3 years, 100,000 miles in all. By then it was 1977 and I fell in love all over again, this time it was the silver/blue 1977 R100RS. Amazingly my R90S had only depreciated $500 in 3 years and 100K miles. The move up to a new $4595 R100RS was still a reach, but like I said, money doesn't matter when you are in love.

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