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The R50/5 cost $1450 new, less a $600 trade in allowance for
my old R27. As soon as I was out of the Navy I picked up the
bike in Louisville, fitted it with Euro bars and took it to Rochester,
NY, where I had landed a job. The bike made several trips to
the East Coast, departing Rochester after work and ridng through
the night. Those rides were memorable for the carpet of bugs
that collected on my jacket. A few months later I had a disk
operation caused by jerking the bike onto its centerstand, and
after that it felt better to use US bars and a Vetter Windjammer
fairing.
After about a year I returned to Louisville and made a trip
to the Washington DC area to visit a brother, taking the opportunity
to ride through the West Virginia mountains. Soon afterward I
traded the bike to a car dealer toward a BMW 2002. Five years
later I noticed the bike was living next door to my mother's
apartment where it spent its first week. The bike has remained
with that owner to this day.
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