BMW R1100S part 6 The comic strip!

Part six of the 160,000-mile Boxer and Ralph shouts from the workshop: “Will my German stripping ever end?” But in a Somerset-y, not Saxony accent!

- RALPH FERRANO

BMW’s 1085cc oil-head twin continues to squatin my workshop, though the bike is now no more than a pile of sub-assemblies I am further dismantling for paint finishes, plating and repair as required.

As I have been stripping the bike it never ceases to amaze me that the bloody thing was still running and was even road legal when it arrived. Part of me thinks that it should have been ridden until it finally would not go and then be allowed to ‘rust in peace’, but the giant Scot/owner who has ridden it almost into the ground wants me to try and extend its life still further. She’s been reluctant to open up for me at times, though…