Chairman Meow
Registered user
Hi Guys and fellow Airhead owners
As all you passionate owners will probably know the history of the R80 Kalahari, its rarity & value and the fact that they were basically a derivative for the approx. 3500 Basic models that were build they are not listed on http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/select?vin=0264754 as Kalahari specific models.
We know 54 bikes were assembled in SA for the SA market and apparently one was written of on the launch , making technically 53 of these models. - A rare breed indeed.
The purpose of this exercise and my research as a fellow owner of one is to establish once and for all the Vin numbers of these bikes.
This I would then like to send the the above site and have them listed. This would hopefully give some kind of authentication of the bikes making potential copies of them traceable and thus protecting these the current owners & future buyers of what has become quite a sough after jewel in the Airhead GS line up.
The Vin numbers I have accumulated thus far has revealed some interesting facts. As there are no current records of the specific Basics that were turned into Kalahari models ( Basics were not sold in SA market) it would be great to get them listed. What I have establishes is the following:
1. The Vin numbers are not concurrent , but rather in three frame batches as they were send here from Germany and modified to become the bike sold here.
2. That according to the numbers it seems that we could currently be at 53 out of the 53/54 of them. - This is based on the assumption that the concurrent numbers within the three batches I have completes the mystery. ..ultimately the more numbers I have the more accurate the list will be.
Once I’m sure of the Vin numbers I can send it through and have them listed on the site.
Feel free to contact me directly should you have this model and would like to share the Vin number with me...I will of course then also send you the list of numbers I have privately as some owners surely prefers the discretion. Should anyone know anyone else that has one...not sure that there can be that many in Europe please pass on this request.
Hope to get your bike’s Vin number from you and keep chipping away on my list.
Regards
Lorenzo Brocchetto
Cape Town SA
lorenzo@vanilla.co.za
As all you passionate owners will probably know the history of the R80 Kalahari, its rarity & value and the fact that they were basically a derivative for the approx. 3500 Basic models that were build they are not listed on http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/select?vin=0264754 as Kalahari specific models.
We know 54 bikes were assembled in SA for the SA market and apparently one was written of on the launch , making technically 53 of these models. - A rare breed indeed.
The purpose of this exercise and my research as a fellow owner of one is to establish once and for all the Vin numbers of these bikes.
This I would then like to send the the above site and have them listed. This would hopefully give some kind of authentication of the bikes making potential copies of them traceable and thus protecting these the current owners & future buyers of what has become quite a sough after jewel in the Airhead GS line up.
The Vin numbers I have accumulated thus far has revealed some interesting facts. As there are no current records of the specific Basics that were turned into Kalahari models ( Basics were not sold in SA market) it would be great to get them listed. What I have establishes is the following:
1. The Vin numbers are not concurrent , but rather in three frame batches as they were send here from Germany and modified to become the bike sold here.
2. That according to the numbers it seems that we could currently be at 53 out of the 53/54 of them. - This is based on the assumption that the concurrent numbers within the three batches I have completes the mystery. ..ultimately the more numbers I have the more accurate the list will be.
Once I’m sure of the Vin numbers I can send it through and have them listed on the site.
Feel free to contact me directly should you have this model and would like to share the Vin number with me...I will of course then also send you the list of numbers I have privately as some owners surely prefers the discretion. Should anyone know anyone else that has one...not sure that there can be that many in Europe please pass on this request.
Hope to get your bike’s Vin number from you and keep chipping away on my list.
Regards
Lorenzo Brocchetto
Cape Town SA
lorenzo@vanilla.co.za