2012 has been an interesting year...Leslie got a new job and is now working for BC Transplant as an Organ Donation Coordinator and Organ Donation Specialist.
Cheryl continues to do well in her police career and we got engaged. Wedding will be next August 2013. More info please read below.
Cheryl and I met in 1997 in Bellingham, Washington. We kept in touch over the year via the internet plus flying back and forth. Before we both knew it I moved all the way across the country to a new country no less in march 1998 and been here ever since. I, meaning Leslie grew up in New York on Long Island where her family still remains except my brother.
Went to College in upstate NY and grad school back on Long Island where I got my Masters Degree in Social Work. In 1999 I started working as an Intensive Care Unit Social Worker at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC and loved my job after all those years.
Cheryl grew up in the lower mainland of BC and many of her family members are here as well. Beautiful place to grow up and go to school. Throughout Cheryl's teenage years and adulthood she worked for her mother's family business. However, at the ripe old age of 35 she decided to embark upon a career in law enforcement which she has been enjoying for over 5 years. Cheryl has found a passion within the Police force working with kids in schools.
We have been together as partner's for 15 years and after Cheryl graduated Depot (Police Training) we both got motorcycles and our licenses. I grew up on bikes and Cheryl always wanted to learn to ride. Learning was easy for Cheryl and getting back on a bike for me just made sense. Cheryl thinks I am obsessed with bikes but to be honest once she is on the road I can't stop her.
Cheryl loves video games, I love wild life, Cheryl dreams about white sandy tropical beaches, I dream about seeing the polar bears in Hudson Bay, Manitoba.
Opposites attract and we both share a passion for adventure motorcycle touring. We learned this after buying our first 2010 BMW F650GS bikes. We travel well together making sure we are both taking care of ourselves. Cheryl is the brains, mechanic, navigator and packer, I am the organizer/planner.
Cheryl is the quiet one, I am the loud New Yorker. Cheryl loves video games, I love live web cams featuring Bald Eagles, Falcons, osprey's and Owls. In the end it seems to work.
I don’t have any ifo regarding but have the same question. Why drop a tried and true and RELIABLE air cooled engine to go to the more complicated and probably prone to break down liquid cooled.
Only things I can think of are emissions standards are a $#$@% across the pond or the insane need for excessive horsepower.
All I know is I ride a sport tourer with an air cooled(well….oil cooled really) engine. Love the simplicity and how flippin easy the thing is to work on:)
Sad they are slowly going away.
could be a myth because I can not find anymore real reliable info on this…dunno
Just this last weekend I rode an oil/air cooled R1200R. On Saturday, I was caught in very heavy traffic, and the motorcycle, after 15 minutes of stop-and-go traffic (mostly stopped, with moments of advacing a couple of metres), was on the verge of overheating. With those engines, you can degrade the material of the oil level check window (plastic) and start spilling your engine’s oil all over the place, and if you do not shut the engine off immediately, well, there goes your engine too. You cannot be sure that you will be able to shutdown the engine in a timely moment, because besides rush-hour traffic, you can find yourself negotiating a very technical segment of unpaved road, with almost no air flow over the engine and you would face the same overheating scenario. So, for a large engine that may be used off-road or in heavy traffic in warm weather, water cooling is actually a much needed improvement.
Agree with Hans here. Having ridden my previous R1150R in stop-go traffic it soon heated up and it doesn’t take much to get those pipes glowing red. Doug also has a point regarding emission standards over here. Once again with the R1150R it was a headache to get it through the bi-annual compulsory bike test as concerns the emissions part of the test. Thankfully I always managed to catch a tester who was willing to persevere with the test and issue the bike with a pass certificate. A problem not uncommon to BMW air cooled bikes by all accounts.
we owned Harley’s and I nearly burnt the crap out of my leg on the oil tank on the Fat Boy…air cooled is only good when moving…just my opinion which I seem to have a lot of these days.. LOL
In the summer my tube frame Buell would get scary hot in traffic, but i think it is all to do with emissions and to small degree noise standards. I think Harley’s air cooled days are numbered too. Water or air cooled the GS is a good looking bike.
Jim
you really think Harley would be forced to get rid of the air cooled same technology they have been using for YEARS? Harley is a brilliant company…they keep the same engine and only change the outside of the bikes and keep selling them for more and more money…the softail, Dyna…same just different mounts…go figure…
I think it will even get Harley sooner of later, when i was younger there were alot of 2 stroke street bikes around, and there may still be in some countrys, but not in the US.
what would they do?? have the appeal owning an HD is the rumble and rustic engine…all hell will break loose….LOL
Watercooling enables the production of a lighter engine & also helps to reduce emissions.bmw need to start meeting european emission laws.
thanks for the info Ben!