{"id":6442,"date":"2019-11-04T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2019-11-04T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T14:24:29","slug":"lunch-with-marty-and-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/lunch-with-marty-and-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Marty and the boys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marty and his 145,000-mile BMW K1200RS.\u00a0 That’s my RX3 in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been riding with good buddy Marty since the early 2000s (it’s been close to 20 years now), and we’ve covered miles all over the US, Mexico, and Canada.\u00a0 Marty has owned the BMW K1200RS you see in the above photo since it was new.\u00a0 He owns and has owned a bunch of exotic bikes (Ducatis, Aprilias, Triumphs, other BMWs, and more), but he prefers the K1200RS and he told me he’s keeping it forever.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a bunch of good friends I ride and socialize with, and I know all of them through Marty. \u00a0 We all get together for coffee at the Brown’s BMW dealership on Saturday morning.\u00a0 That’s followed by lunch, and maybe we’ll talk about the next big ride.\u00a0 We frequently talk about rides we’ve done in the past.\u00a0 Sometimes the conversation turns to politics, and we all have strong opinions.\u00a0 Some of the guys are right (the ones who agree with me), and some of them are wrong (the ones who don’t), but it doesn’t matter. \u00a0 Every once in a while I inject the thought that the problem in America is that the guys who really know how to run the country are screwing around drinking coffee at Brown’s and riding their motorcycles.\u00a0 It usually gets a laugh, even though the guys have heard that line about 800 times.<\/p>\n

I like the get-togethers at Brown’s, although sometimes I’ll go months without getting over there. \u00a0 I don’t know why, because I always enjoy it when I go.\u00a0 And I like riding my RX3 to our Saturday morning meetings.\u00a0 It’s an excuse to get out on my favorite motorcycle (not that anyone needs an excuse to go for a motorcycle ride).\u00a0 Sometimes folks ask about my motorcycle; more than a few motorcycle riders have never seen an RX3.\u00a0 Some folks think it’s a BMW, even though BMW has their own competitor in the small adventure touring motorcycle category (that’s the BMW G 310 GS and you can read our road test of it here<\/a>).\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 My RX3 is slathered with decals denoting some of the big rides I’ve done, and I guess that gets it some credibility in a crowd known for high mileage.<\/p>\n

While I’m at the Brown BMW dealership, I like to check out the vintage and new motorcycles.\u00a0 The old bikes are beautiful, and some of the new ones are, too…<\/p>\n

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A mid-’60s 600cc BMW. Those old bikes are drop dead gorgeous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A new old stock (that is to say, a leftover) 2017 Boxer caf\u00e9 bike. It’s stunning. It’s a hell of a deal, but there’s no package deal for a chiropractor, and I’d need one if I rode this bike. I can dream, though. The styling on this bike really makes it for me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I tried to show the difference in size between a brand new GS 1250 and the mid-’60s BMW, and I failed. The photo doesn’t do the bikes justice. Side-by-side, the difference in size is shocking. The GS is outrageously huge. The older BMW seems to be the perfect size for me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So that’s it for today, folks, except to ask a quick question:\u00a0 Do you have a riding buddy like Marty in your life?\u00a0 Hey, we’d love to hear about it, so drop us a comment or two and let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been riding with good buddy Marty since the early 2000s (it’s been close to 20 years now), and we’ve covered miles all over the US, Mexico, and Canada.\u00a0 Marty has owned the BMW K1200RS you see in the above photo since it was new.\u00a0 He owns and has owned a bunch of exotic bikes … Continue reading “Lunch with Marty and the boys”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89,140,369],"tags":[420,927,30],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-vintage-motorcycle","category-zongshen","tag-bmw","tag-browns-bmw","tag-rx3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6457,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}