1983 BMW R65b Sidecar Motorcycle
This is my 1983 BMW R65 Sidecar. I wish I could take credit for the restoration but the work was done by my father at his Custivation Laboratory near Dallas, Texas. The restoration of this motorcycle took more than ten years. The bike was originally recovered in Miami, Florida and then shipped across country to my father's laboratory in Dallas, Texas.
History
From A DeuxRoues September 28, 1982:
"At the Paris Motofare in 1979, Frederich Glausenhaumph, concept design director for BMW Motorad, vowed he would bring to production a BMW sidecar rig within three years. Previous attempts at a sidecar rig had been unsuccessful outside of war production and was considered commercially taboo. Glausenhaumph insisted a BMW sidecar would offer an unprecedented family experience ushering in generations of new BMW riders. 'We must bring the youngest riders to BMW so they may know the joys of motoring'. The new rig would contain the "b" designator from the name "Beiwagon"
Glausenhaumph's initial concepts went through seven variations using several preproduction sidecar tubs in existence in Europe because BMW Motorad refused to sanction a one off fiberglass tub. From the seven concept designs three were determined to be commercially viable. The most favored a was a R45 with a Velorex 559 tub, later changed to a R65 which had been offered in America.
"At the Paris Motofare in 1979, Frederich Glausenhaumph, concept design director for BMW Motorad, vowed he would bring to production a BMW sidecar rig within three years. Previous attempts at a sidecar rig had been unsuccessful outside of war production and was considered commercially taboo. Glausenhaumph insisted a BMW sidecar would offer an unprecedented family experience ushering in generations of new BMW riders. 'We must bring the youngest riders to BMW so they may know the joys of motoring'. The new rig would contain the "b" designator from the name "Beiwagon"
Glausenhaumph's initial concepts went through seven variations using several preproduction sidecar tubs in existence in Europe because BMW Motorad refused to sanction a one off fiberglass tub. From the seven concept designs three were determined to be commercially viable. The most favored a was a R45 with a Velorex 559 tub, later changed to a R65 which had been offered in America.
The R65b appeared at the Munich International Moto Show to little fanfare. As a concept vehicle it failed to meet the approval of BMW Motorad production supervisor Herbert Abscheldorfer. The bike would never be manufactured but the concept would herald a new graphics scheme embraced nearly a decades later in the R1150R Yellowjacket, the R1150 Rockster, and K1200rs 725Dakar Yellow. "