The story goes that he used the R65 as a runabout for a while, hence the badging and lairy colour chosen for the rims. ( See this profile at Shannons.) He's built some remarkable boxer race bikes over time and for a while was selling aftermarket motorcycle wheels. At some stage it belonged to famous Melbourne tuner Graeme 'Gyro' Carless of Ecco Engineering. The 'Ecco' badging on the tank and the garish wheels are the give-away. I bought this from a friend – young Janette – in 2005, in part because I liked the history behind it. You needed just the right buyer to stroll along.įirst a quick backgrounder. That's when I discovered it was going to be slow to sell. It wasn't being used, other than to keep it running, and we'd reached the point where I was no longer likely to greatly miss it once it was gone. Then finally, I decided it really had to go. In the 16 years I've owned it, I've had it on the market a couple of times but, usually, I was the problem and decided to hang on to the thing. It was getting to the point where I thought it would never happen – actually selling the Ecco R65, that is. (by Guy ‘Guido’ Allen, ride pic by Ben Galli, August 2021)Īfter 16 years, Ecco the 1979 BMW R65 has finally left the shed
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