K75S at Finger Lakes 2008

A gentleman attending the 34th Annual Finger Lakes Rally in 2008 was riding a K75S, and noticed that there were quite a many of this model present at the rally. He then spent time organizing this photo-op. He is the third from right in the first picture, wearing the brown shirt and blue cap.

There were a couple more who were out riding and arrived a bit after the posed photos with the owners were taken, and probably four others who didn't "get the word."

This gentleman in the next picture didn't know that he owned a rather rare K75S, as he has only had it for a few years. It is one of the very first 300 Lava Red ones (shipped to the U.S. in the summer of 1986), and his registration confirms it is number 251. The Lava Red color was never used again on a U.S. model K75S. I pointed this out to him, and also showed him my current registration card for number 224. He was happy to discover he was riding a rare Beemer.

Your Webmeister has owned Lava Red number 224 since August 1986, purchased new from RK BMW in Deptford, New Jersey. Unfortunately, I did not have mine at the rally, and the assembled crew was not terribly agreeable to wait for me to go home and bring it back for the photo session.

The following information was culled from the Rally Database. The list is in order by the year of the K75S.

RICHARD POPE	LOCKPORT NY	1986	K75S	SOLO
RYAN SORENSEN	NEWTOWN PA	1987	K75S	TWO UP
BOB DEFRANCISCO	BALLSTON SPA NY	1988	K75S	SOLO
KENNETH GOFF	BALTIMORE MD	1988	K75S	TWO UP
CLAUDE LEBLANC	ORLEANS ON	1988	K75S	SOLO
ALAIN DAOUST	OAKVILLE ON	1989	K75S	SOLO
SEAN HERSHEY	STATE COLLEGE PA	1990	K75S	SOLO
STACEY PAPINCHAK	WINDBER PA	1990	K75S	SOLO
MAGUERITE NEWTON	OLCOTT NY	1991	K75S	SOLO
BRIAN BUSCHYNSKI	SARATOGA SPRINGS NY	1992	K75S	SOLO
BEN KLINE	SARANAC LAKE NY	1992	K75S	SOLO
JAMES SPROULE	NEW MILFORD CT	1992	K75S	SOLO
FABIO CAMPANA	KINGSTON NY	1993	K75S	SOLO
ALAN EIDT	NIAGARA FALLS ON	1993	K75S	SOLO
ROBERT PRYOR, JR	ATGLEN PA	1993	K75S	SOLO
CLAUDE BODLEY	POUGHKEEPSIE NY	1994	K75S	SOLO
EDDIE KEFAUVER	REISTERSTOWN MD	1994	K75S	SOLO

My thanks to the fellow for getting this all together.

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