ADVR R80G/S registry.... who's got one?

Three under my roof

10/1980 #6250387
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This is the bike I am building into Wolfenfighter
50mm WP extremes
HPN style frame bracing
100mm longer swingarm
43 litre Acerbis tank

04/1985 #6284141
This is my main R80G/S


Helge's Bike 01/1985 #6283429
Helge is a friend from Norway bought this bike to leave here and comes out for a few months each year to enjoy the Australian summer.

Yes, that's it. Hopefully I've fixed my picture link.

VIN: 3096. Sold April 1985 by Bavarian Cycle Works, San Francisco.
Now with its third owner, and first non-family member of the original buyer.
Original and worn, but unless the odo lies, still under 30K miles.

1986 R80G/S

#3331 Only 19 more G/S's rolled out the factory door headed for the U.S. after his one. Originally purchased at BMW of Fresno.

1981 #2488
originally sold by Tom Cutter at Staten Island BMW.


tranny is back with Tom now being resurrected.

Here's mine....82 model Vin 7333 ,3 previous owners, 105000 km.

Here she is doing what she does best on a ride around the Olympic peninsula a few months ago. Purchased about four years ago with 50K and now has around 60K with many changes like the PD kit, rebuilt trans, staintune, TKCs, and a bunch of other little things.

1985 G/S #3103:

We've all joked about the off-road vehicles that looked like the most off road they'd seen was the front lawn. Well, my living room bike saw some rough duty, though most of the damage has now been repaired. So not only does this one not see any dirt (or the lawn), it doesn't even see pavement.

1985 G/S #3107

This poor baby needs some work. It came to me in boxes and appears to be all there, except for some bits missing from the frame. The steering stop and passenger peg mounting areas have now been re-attached, but the steering lock boss is still missing. If you know where I can locate one, please let me know! As soon as that's repaired the frame will get painted and the bike can go back together.

1986 R80G/S (10/85 build)
VIN ...3315
29K mi. ODO

I am 3rd owner at minimum (does anyone know how to track all the owners down, and where it was originally sold?).

Thanks for compiling info Gage

My pleasure!

Unknown heritage: 'cept known abuse by at least one PO (the last one).

It's an early one, though, which I reckon would have been Euro delivered... no idea how it got here (OZ).

I suspect it's been stolen sometime in it's no-doubt colourful past - it now has a Victoria Police allocated vin number.

But now it's mine and is slowly being returned to it's former glory - not cosmetic just yet though!

Here we are on a recent journey to Lake Mungo NP.

Man! Some beauty bike, and beauty backgrounds, too.

I wonder how many G/Ss we have in here ... seems like the thread is growing pretty quick.

Here's my friend Al's low serial '81...2113

Al bought the bike new, and ordered it with a Heinrich gas tank that matches mine!

If I understand Solo's numbers, there were only 1329 sold/imported to US? I thought the number was much larger - am I missing something?

If that is correct, and we have say, 20 US bikes, then that's about 1.5% of US G/S's on ADV.

We need a rally

Does that include us R80ST owners, they are even rarer than the G/S

Well, my numbers are suspect, check the links at the bottom of post one... there seems to be more produced for the US then the numbers I have posted.... I have no clue what the right numbers would be....

The following link is a great source of data. Scroll down to the 'R80 G/S' rows for details. Based on that page, a 1987 R80G/S would be a very, very rare find !

http://bmbikes.co.uk/chassispages/enginechassis800.htm

Doug...

Not hard to find at all
Here ya' go: http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=388563


I passed it up when it was listed elsewhere...

Cheers !

$8K? :eek1 .... just my opinion however... free market system and all that

Purchased this spring @ 24k
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