[Rhodes22-list] BMW Sidecars

John Tonjes johntonjes at earthlink.net
Wed May 7 18:49:07 EDT 2003 

Brad,
What are the motorcycles called now? Factory name?

Rummy


> [Original Message]
> From: brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: 5/7/2003 3:44:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] BMW Sidecars
>
> 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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