End of an era

Or as Joey Ramone would put it:

The VGA took my beemer away (VGA = Vakgarage Aalten)
They took her away
Away from me

After being on Marktplaats for just two weeks; Sander has sold his R1150GS Adventure. The bike he bought after viewing the Long Way Round series. Not because famous movie actor Ewan McGregor was riding one. But it just seamed to be the perfect go-anywhere-bike, at that moment. And Sander, always wanting to travel by bike, realized his Yamaha XVS1100 chopper wasn't a very capable/comfortable tourer. The first test drives on the GS turned out to be very promissing. But who would ever have thought that Sander, who bruised his tibia on those flat cylinders before, would buy a Boxer?
In april 2009 Sander imported the bike from Germany. Having 56000 kilometres on the tacho, the bike was is very good condition. One year later Sander is participating in a GS Club allroad event in the Belgian Ardennes, finding the bike is far too heavy for serious offroading (respect for Charley & Ewan, for driving these beasts around the world). Which makes him decide to buy a second GS, a 22 year old R100. The R1150 still remains favorite for serious road work. Sander adds over 40000 kilometres of fun in just 3 seasons, taking the bike for holidays to the UK and Norway.
However...
The Honda Transalp being the bike of choice for our RTW trip, there is no use in keeping the Bee-em. Besides we also could use the money for our trip. So Sander put it on sale. After receiving some ridiculous bids, finally someone serious came around. Yesterday evening the bike changed hands, although the battery had died during the harsh winter conditions and some severe persuasion was needed to get it fired up.

The end of a BMW era, but yet another step closer to our goal!