[Rhodes22-list] BMW Sidecars

brad haslett flybrad at yahoo.com
Wed May 7 14:44:25 EDT 2003 

Bill,

Reverse gear is an option (one I would think you would
want). The Earles fork is a "curve ball" for me and I
had to do a Google search on it.  Dunnoh!  I'm not a
motorcycle person, my buddy is.  Some folks are
importing the bike in small quantities,ie., one at a
time.  We have about a half-dozen persons between us
that want to buy one as soon as they hit the West
Coast.  I hope they show up with cash!

Brad
--- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> Brad,
> 
> As I remember the old BMWs some of them were
> motorcycles with a reverse gear, so you could back
> them out when you needed to.
> 
> Also, I thought the sidecars were made for
> motorcycles with Earles forks.  I haven't seen many
> of those since the late 60s.  Are they producing BMW
> style motorcycles in China with Earles forks, or do
> they attach them to more modern motorcycles with
> telescopic forks?
> 
> Bill Effros
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: brad haslett 
> To: kroposki at innova.net ; The Rhodes 22 mail list 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] SARS Update
> 
> 
> Ed,
> 
> The short version of a long story is that the S2 is
> leaving Maryland Marina via truck on Thursday and
> will
> arrive at Pickwick Dam, TN on Friday.  A lot of
> folks
> wanted to participate in moving her on her own
> bottom,
> but, no one could really make a timely commitment. 
> I
> picked the brain of a co-worker who owns a 43'
> Beneteau and trucked his boat from Pickwick to the
> Chesapeake with the idea of sailing her back to 
> home
> port over the summer.  Several weeks and thousands
> of
> dollars later he arrived in Florida where he left
> the
> boat.  Not a bad idea but I really don't have the
> time
> just now and I want the boat here.  Down the road
> I'd
> like to motor down the Tenn-Tom to the Gulf and do
> the
> trip in reverse with some diversions along the way. 
> I
> shot-gunned some bid requests over the internet to
> truck her home and got a bid from a guy who was
> picking up a boat at Pickwick to move to Chicago and
> he gave me a really good price.  It was my intention
> to move her to Anne's lake (KY) for re-rigging, but,
> the price was a good bit cheaper to my home port and
> the driver is a sailboat owner, licensed captain,
> and
> experienced rigger.  He can't move boats over the
> weekend so he's re-rigging my boat during his
> downtime.
> Complicating the scheduling and my own time
> commitments was our trip to China which is now
> posponed indefinitely.  Throw in to the mix that
> we're
> short on pilots in my seat position and moving
> vacation slots around is not as easy right now as it
> sometimes is, and well, my new baby is going on a
> truck and that's that.  We bought another apartment
> in
> Beijing (we'll rent our other one) and its under
> construction now.  We really wanted to be more
> pro-active in choosing the finish materials on this
> one but Fan's sister is e-mailing us photos and
> through the internet, we're involved as much as
> possible.  Remember the old German side-car
> motorcycles from WW2 movies?  They were made by BMW
> and the factory ended up in Soviet hands.  They
> moved
> the whole factory to the Ural mountains and then
> traded it to the Chinese in the 50's.  They still
> build them, exactly as they were in 1936.  My best
> friend and I are importing a whole container of them
> and I really need to get to Beijing to supervise
> them
> going on the ship.  That's been postponed as well. 
> We're sponsoring the daughter of one of Fan's
> college
> buddies to live with us and attend her junior year
> of
> high school here.  That may be at risk as well. 
> This
> SARS thing has really turned the Asian world upside
> down.  We'll just have to ride this thing out
> through
> the summer on our new boat.  Life sucks!
> 
> Brad
> --- Kroposki <kroposki at innova.net> wrote:
> > Brad, 
> > Any more details how you will get the boat to the
> > "Mid West"?
> >                                    Ed K
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> > Behalf Of brad haslett
> > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 4:59 PM
> > To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] SARS Update
> > 
> > We postponed our annual trip to China for obvious
> > reasons.  I fed Fan daily with more bad news but
> her
> > parents in China followed the party line (read the
> > newspapers) until it was too overwhelming to
> ignore.
> > 
> > Then the truth came out. Now, Beijing has a 911
> type
> > phone number, 120, that you can call if you have
> > SARS
> > symptoms and need transportation to a treatment
> > center.  During Fan's last weekly phone
> conversation
> > with her sister and parents the following story
> was
> > told. My sister-in-law has a three year old
> daughter
> > who is about the sharpest kid I ever met (smarter
> > than
> > my own). She ran a slight fever a few days ago and
> > her
> > parents and grand-parents were quite alarmed. 
> This
> > is
> > how the conversation went (paraphrased from
> Mandarin
> > to English).
> > 
> > Ran Ran, do you feel bad?
> > 
> > No, I feel fine.
> > 
> > But you have a temperature, does your head hurt?
> > 
> > No, I feel fine.
> > 
> > Does your stomach hurt?
> > 
> > No, Mom, I feel fine!
> > 
> > You don't hurt anywhere?
> > 
> > No, I feel fine!  Whatever you do, don't call 120!
> > 
> > We think we'll stay here until the dust settles on
> > this issue.
> > 
> > Brad 
> > 
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