Benutzer Diskussion:Jeff Dean

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I am a resident of Madison, Wisconsin, and Tucson, Arizona, USA. As you can tell from my edits, I am a motorcycle and architectural photography enthusiast. I am a relative novice to Wikipedia.

Here is my main web site -- http://bmwdean.home.att.net.

I also enjoy the photography of historic buildings. A few of my photos can be seen at Historic Places of Dane County and other sites. I will add more as time and energy permit.

English Wikipedia pages I have initiated include: BMW R1200RT, BMW R60/2, and BMW Motorcycle Owners of America

I have also contributed photographs (obviously not text) to several German pages, including BMW R 51/3, BMW R 50, BMW R 75/5, BMW R 50 S, BMW K 1200 LT, BMW R 1200 GS, and Liste der BMW-Motorräder.

[Bearbeiten] A Hello! from Germany

Hello Jeff,

many thanks for your wonderful photographs. Especially the granada red one I adore. What a great work... <phew>... This one can make change an enthusiasts´ mind that old BMW cycles are free in color like Henry Ford´s speech on the T model: you may get it painted in any color you like - if it is black. ;-))

I do own the "BMW motorcycle bible" of Hans-Joachim Mai, "1000 Tricks für schnelle BMW" in two old versions, one going back to the R 51/2 type.

There is no need to be sad for not speaking german - but german is a wonderful language.

BTW a recommendation: Liste_der_BMW-Motorräder with a lot of related BMW types and prettytables with technical data. If any questions, maybe regarding translation or something else: please feel free to ask me.

Kind regards from Germany

Kassander der Minoer 03:15, 2. Nov. 2006 (CET)

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Hello again Jeff,

it is interesting that you write about "slash-2"-Models for all the models "Vollschwingen-Modelle" (="Full/long-suspension"?-Modelle) 1955-1969, as in GER only the frame-enforced "updates" from 1960 to 1969 are named as "/2" (R 50/2, R 60/2). And many THX to you for the pleasure looking on this wonderful granada red bike when being your virtual guest for discussions. Great! Double saddles as both my old BMW R 26s once had. Fourstroke greetings across the lake.

Kassander der Minoer

[Bearbeiten] Once again a Hello!

Dear Jeff, please don´t feel sad because I did not write again - reason was that you did not write on my discussion page but on my "front page" (user page)- very seldom I do an update there. ;-) I will transport your kind words to my discussion page within the next days as there is much work in the job and also a very big lot of work now for knowledge purposes:

With a "ferrophile brother of mine", I had a gorgeous weekend from friday morning to sunday evening, when we visited several technical museums in southern germany, Stuttgart region. We were in Speyer where there is a huge technical museum with music instruments, cars, motorcycles, aeroplanes including an Antonov transportation plane and a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet on a structural steel construcion in the air. Then we went to Neckarsulm where nowadays the Audi cars partially are built - the sports versions. And where in former days the motorcycles and cars from the former NSU company were built. There is an Audi museum in the customers car delivery area, and in the old city there is an old hospital built by the former christian medieval soldiers where on five floors there are hundreds of old bicycles and motorcycles - old BMWs included. Whenever you go to germany it would be a Must! to visit them, like seeing the Rhein river and wonderful nice ol´ Heidelberg. ;-))

Then we went to Stuttgart to see the Museum of the Porsche company. Next day was a visit at the Märklin Museum (model railways H0 gauge), and last but not least we tried to get into the newly built Mercedes-Benz museum - where we first had an excellent lunch (Spätzle and "Zwiebelrostbraten" (roasted beef) with a fine Trollinger wine sauce - but afterwards we would have had to wait some 75 minutes in a looong long queue to be allowed to buy the museum´s entrance fee - so we went home. ;-)

We will do a travel report and a summary of links of this great travel on our User pages within the next weeks - you also may get an english translation of a probably/partly funny report of this travel (if you want), a travel which gave us some 2.500 photographs & some excellent meals, some nice bottles of wine - and a huge amount of fun, fun, fun. Pls. remember: real boys forever remain boys. Only the costs for their toys increase. ;-)

Motorcycling regards from Germany -- Kassander der Minoer 23:30, 26. Nov. 2006 (CET) PS pls. an answer write into Benutzer_Diskussion:Kassander_der_Minoer. --> "Bearbeiten" (Edit). Would be heartly welcome. :-)

[Bearbeiten] .. ouhh.. Forgotten... ;-)

CONGRATS! that the great "red barons´ motorcycle" is really yours. I yet thought that you did not only take some photographs for lovers´reasons but in owners care. Hey - great! I could scratch my "Christmas money" to built up a sister of your bike - if, or whenever, a R50/2. Because this is the best chance to get a motorcycle for the "Rolls Royce" test: take a silver dollar and put it upright (with the small rim rolling) on the motor hood of a car while engine is running in noload cond. A R 50/2 with the gas reservoir once was the one and only motorcycle ever in my motorcycling "career" which was able to perform this test - the dollar ("Fuenf DM-Stück" / Five Deutschmarks piece) staying upright on the small rim). This is possible only when the ignition is in perfect condition and the carburetors also are in same perfect condition .. <puckpuck .. puckpuck.. puckpuck>.. The newer ones (BMW R 75/5) newer matched this specification. Give your R 1200 a try.. ;-)) Kassander der Minoer 23:47, 26. Nov. 2006 (CET)

Addition: a piece of money, rolling slightly in the cylinders´ boxing directions - shivering a very little bit from the left to the right, but did not fall down. Must have a tiny piece of a plane surface. Good luck! However: wish you fun regardless of success or not. Maybe a great fun also for your motorcycling friends to examine their bikes by such a test..