Some of you know I started to restore a 1983 R80ST from the estate of Clem Cykowski, the original owner of BMW Of Denver that he started in the early 1970’s. I bought my first BMW from Clem in 1975, an R75/6, which my son Branden now owns. Clem and I stayed friends and he helped me when I started rebuilding airheads back in 2009.
My goal was to auction the bike and donate the proceeds to the Motorcycle Relief Project in Colorado. They use a week long motorcycle ride with therapy sessions to help military and first responders suffering from PTSD. Their success rate is amazing.
Ted Moyer, Executive Director of the BMW MOA heard about this project from Daren Dortin’s “Type 247” podcast about the project and contacted me. He offered to have the BMW MOA Foundation raffle the bike and donate all proceeds to the MRP. I agreed.
Tonight, is the MRP annual fund raiser and they are going to display the completed R80ST to start the BMW MOA raffle for their friends and followers today. The official start of the raffle is in January, but Ted is making it available in December to anyone who knows about the MRP, and is offering a discount during December of six tickets for $100 instead of the standard five tickets. So, you can take advantage of the discount if you are interested.
You can visit my website and see all the work I did to restore this bike:
1983 BMW R80ST Charity Rebuild: Project Index
And you can use this link to buy raffle tickets.
