opinions please, I love it and want it....talk me out of it please
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Buy it
Keep it for a few years and then make a fortune
Have you checked the provenance ?
Keep it for a few years and then make a fortune
Have you checked the provenance ?
Yes it's a proper thing!
The last Écureuil…
The here presented bike is one of only two surviving complete and original examples (of the 1987 model), and it is in working order.
This is the one used by Marc Moralès in the 1987 Paris-Dakar that had arrived in Dakar but wasn’t qualified… Actually, during the last stage, Marc Morales ranking 7th overall, broke his clutch near the Lac Rose (Lake Retba), only three kilometers from the finish line!
This machine is complete and original with the exception of the headlamp protection, which could be reproduced easily.
It’s running perfectly: Hubert Rigal was able to start the engine himself.
It has the correct parts such as the 17 inch rear and 21 inch front wheels.
On different stages, it was either equipped with 18, 19 or 21 inch wheels.
The engine, a 1023 cc 1050 model prepared by Herbert Scheck (the well-known German pilot and tuner of the BMW factory), was ordered by BMW France.
Just as for the 1987 Paris-Dakar, the bike is equipped, with a Marzocchi fork and two Öhlins shocks.
The carbon body and the engine mountings in honeycomb aluminum were built by ERS in Lyon.
The bike is available in France, without road registration documents. In fact, back then these prototypes raced with registration documents provided that actually corresponded to a serial production bike.
A rare opportunity to find such an exceptional bike which, even if it has disappointed the expectations of its inventors, is part of the Paris-Dakar history.
The last Écureuil…
The here presented bike is one of only two surviving complete and original examples (of the 1987 model), and it is in working order.
This is the one used by Marc Moralès in the 1987 Paris-Dakar that had arrived in Dakar but wasn’t qualified… Actually, during the last stage, Marc Morales ranking 7th overall, broke his clutch near the Lac Rose (Lake Retba), only three kilometers from the finish line!
This machine is complete and original with the exception of the headlamp protection, which could be reproduced easily.
It’s running perfectly: Hubert Rigal was able to start the engine himself.
It has the correct parts such as the 17 inch rear and 21 inch front wheels.
On different stages, it was either equipped with 18, 19 or 21 inch wheels.
The engine, a 1023 cc 1050 model prepared by Herbert Scheck (the well-known German pilot and tuner of the BMW factory), was ordered by BMW France.
Just as for the 1987 Paris-Dakar, the bike is equipped, with a Marzocchi fork and two Öhlins shocks.
The carbon body and the engine mountings in honeycomb aluminum were built by ERS in Lyon.
The bike is available in France, without road registration documents. In fact, back then these prototypes raced with registration documents provided that actually corresponded to a serial production bike.
A rare opportunity to find such an exceptional bike which, even if it has disappointed the expectations of its inventors, is part of the Paris-Dakar history.
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It's French and we all know you can't trust foreigners! 
That frame is something. Hewn from a couple of bits of 20mm Durall by the look of it.
Buy it...
Love the remote oil filter. Does anyone make these? I'd get one for my '89 GSPD if they did.
BTW - you should buy it.
BTW - you should buy it.
Don't buy it. It has an oil filter as a crash bung.
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I thought you already owned it but forgot to mention
Please buy it ,cos I want a go
This would be my exception to my rule of not riding that which I cannot afford
Please buy it ,cos I want a go
This would be my exception to my rule of not riding that which I cannot afford
It's bloody ugly, buy a pretty bike.
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Functional though.
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Might be ugly to some,but it is a hand made bike,built with the sole purpose of finishing the toughest endurance race ever thought up,
I love it
I love it
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