A rather nice Beemer

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=160212624395&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=006

BMW K1100LT SE LIMITED

Now you don't see that every day. *Remarkably* tempting.

In a garage beside a low mileage blue/pearl white K100RS SE a man could
almost retire happy.

 

If you're drooling over a brown touring motorcycle, you're probably of age
to retire.

 

Well this much is clearly true.
Condition, mileage, specialness...

 

Jesu H Christos. How could you be evenly remotely interested. It's a
BMW. It's brown. It's fucking horrible. They're all fucking
horrible.

 

To be fair, it's not beige. Otherwise, you're spot on.

 

You boys know nothing of the K Lore

 

Quite. My old man ad a k when they first came out so I have some insight.

ob beige, I present to the jury exhibit A:

<http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/newmodels/images/k1200lt_side.jpg>

I feel ill.

 

BMW bricks ? Oh, yes. I could cope with a good R90/S if someone wanted
to foist one on me though.

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It's a fucking horrible colour scheme.

And 3.5k is a bit OTT as well, I think.

One of the bloody leccy windscreen hinges bust on mine today (they all
do that, sir). I simply cba to fix it myself (I know it ought to be
relatively simple) so I'm lobbing it at Brian Giles when he's back from
his hols. And in the meantime riding it with the screen folded down.

 

That really is horrible.

 

No. It. Isn't.

It is the oddest shade of grey I've ever seen, though.

 

Thank God for that. Looks like the painter took revenge on BMW for not
having got a pay rise. Especially the design of the pinstripe lines.

Agree on that. Even my rather battered one looks IMHO better than the
"rather nice one".

 

I suspect the "grey" refers to the non-brown bits. It's reminiscent of the
"Clove Brown" colour they used to daub on things like Maestro vans.

 

You could be right.

It's still about as tempting as a handful of wasps up the arse, imo.

 

Possibly. Can you rub Vaseline on wasps?

 

You boys!
I didn't give the paint scheme a moment of thought. Not one. I just said
"into Beav as soon as I get it"

and obviously not if it goes near that BIN

 

Well, if it wasn't brown before...

 

"Donkey shit brown" I think is the way Tom Waits would have it.
Except it's a sort of burgundy on my computer.

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<feathers trigger>

 

You hardly look old enough.