ELIMINATOR
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ah, BUT, it doesn't stick such big holes in your pockets as normal keys.
Airhead ingnition key - foldie bit?
- Thread starter Wreford Miles
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Nope, sorry joan but its a pushie in arrow. If it was a turnie arrow it would point up or down or forward and backwards, depending if its vertical or horizontal.
the folding airhead key was of course designed by the same sadistic bastard that designed the famous "impossible to reach with your foot" side stand
he pissed himself laughing at all our fumbling for years after!
it drove him quite mad in the end, he spent his last days locked in a lunatic asylum.... which was a fitting end for someone whose creative genius had caused so much hand and foot buggering about for so many
its all very sad i tell you.. very sad
hm
he pissed himself laughing at all our fumbling for years after!
it drove him quite mad in the end, he spent his last days locked in a lunatic asylum.... which was a fitting end for someone whose creative genius had caused so much hand and foot buggering about for so many
its all very sad i tell you.. very sad
hm
the folding airhead key was of course designed by the same sadistic bastard that designed the famous "impossible to reach with your foot" side stand
he pissed himself laughing at all our fumbling for years after!
it drove him quite mad in the end, he spent his last days locked in a lunatic asylum.... which was a fitting end for someone whose creative genius had caused so much hand and foot buggering about for so many
its all very sad i tell you.. very sad
hm
Spot on Dave!
brassmonkey001
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the folding airhead key was of course designed by the same sadistic bastard that designed the famous "impossible to reach with your foot" side stand
he pissed himself laughing at all our fumbling for years after!
it drove him quite mad in the end, he spent his last days locked in a lunatic asylum.... which was a fitting end for someone whose creative genius had caused so much hand and foot buggering about for so many
its all very sad i tell you.. very sad
hm
Be interesting to see the study group of people he designed the bike for. Must have been a circus in town or something...
fayeslane
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it drove him quite mad in the end, he spent his last days locked in a lunatic asylum.... which was a fitting end for someone whose creative genius had caused so much hand and foot buggering about for so many
its all very sad i tell you.. very sad
hm
To his credit though he came up with the design for the 1200GS whilst in the asylum
the folding airhead key was of course designed by the same sadistic bastard that designed the famous "impossible to reach with your foot" side stand
he pissed himself laughing at all our fumbling for years after!
it drove him quite mad in the end, he spent his last days locked in a lunatic asylum.... which was a fitting end for someone whose creative genius had caused so much hand and foot buggering about for so many
its all very sad i tell you.. very sad
hm
I did of course start this story at the end so to speak and really should fill in a few details....
the Designers name was Heir Ernst Kuntz or Heir E Kuntz to his friends
its long fallen into BMW floklore about how the folding key came about..
Old Kuntz was always first at the clocking off station in the design office, he would be seen standing next to the clock counting down the seconds in his long black leather ex SS officer great coat and his huge black leather gauntlets and his ex Me109 fighter pilots gogles already resplendent upon his grim face, his well polished jack boots catching the evening sun drifting through the office window as the seconds ticked down.
anyway it was a wednesday evening, Kuntz was waiting at the clock as usual but he had in his gloved hand a single Mark coin as he was going to call into the newsagents on his way home to pick up ten woodbines and his under the counter copy of Elbow exercisers monthly when just as the clock ht 4;59 and 59seconds he dropped the coin... he fell to his knees instantly to retrieve it, he was still wearing his gauntlets and struggled and strive to pick up the mark.... the rest is history!
regarding the unreachable sidestand design, he was drunk down at the Bier Kellar one evening and he confessed the inspiration for the sidestand was brought about by trying to re-cage his pet Parakeet
yhis however has never been substantiated.there is another design of his that is never talked about at BMW not even in whispers... and that of course is the "kick start gearbox" again it is Verbotten to talk of this design, they all know but dont speak of how heir E Kuntz came by this monster and it was of course the result of him having spent years kicking ..........
no i cant carry on it too sinister
hm
fayeslane
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fayeslane
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Spent some hours in the shed today observing the evolution of the BM key. Distinct changes occured from the R90S to the R75/6. The 90S being a rounded nob and the 75/6 having a Nieman folding type. Do to lack of study material I'm not sure when the change to the "foldie bit" type happened.
What did BMs prior to the early 70s have? Was there a very early Kuntz prototype?
What did BMs prior to the early 70s have? Was there a very early Kuntz prototype?
What did BMs prior to the early 70s have? Was there a very early Kuntz prototype?
Pre 70, and up to 74 had a lego key. Only i wouldn't go so far as to call it a key. More a prong on a blob of plastic.
Lubing the folding key and checking it folded smoothly used to be part of the service schedule.
fayeslane
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Proff
Can I use Graphogen on my folding key?
Can I use Graphogen on my folding key?
Proff
Can I use Graphogen on my folding key?
Yes!!
It will ease the pain when I ram it straight up your arse
To his credit though he came up with the design for the 1200GS whilst in the asylum
He had a lot of despair during this period and wanted others to feel his pain - He had considered a foldie key for the 1200 but the requirment for a transponder would have put to much stress on the pivot
Heir E Kuntz
there are ghost writers - there are also ghost Designers.
this gentleman often visited Italy as he had links with a small Communist group there.
to them he was known as The Red Herren.
to fund his visits he did a little work for Moto Guzzi as he was already familiar with the foibles of the sideways engine layout.
This has left us with the Guzzis infamous groin straining 18" long sidestand.
Renowned for injuring the rider even without turning the key in the ignition.
I am in the process of losing a thumbnail at the moment as the bastard twacked me as i moved it to get at the starter motor.
it split the nail in two under the skin at the knuckle end - now i have the image of what looks like a fanny growing out of me thumb!
An accident of design?
I dont feckin think so.
pictures of offended thumbnail available upon request.
there are ghost writers - there are also ghost Designers.
this gentleman often visited Italy as he had links with a small Communist group there.
to them he was known as The Red Herren.
to fund his visits he did a little work for Moto Guzzi as he was already familiar with the foibles of the sideways engine layout.
This has left us with the Guzzis infamous groin straining 18" long sidestand.
Renowned for injuring the rider even without turning the key in the ignition.
I am in the process of losing a thumbnail at the moment as the bastard twacked me as i moved it to get at the starter motor.
it split the nail in two under the skin at the knuckle end - now i have the image of what looks like a fanny growing out of me thumb!
An accident of design?
I dont feckin think so.
pictures of offended thumbnail available upon request.
Wreford, I have no idea why you have a foldie bit. I am just trying to helping you reach four pages.
My Airhead when it had an ignition key had a foldie bit, why is that?
BTW I don't really give a shite I just wanted to see if the Airhead section could manage to strectch a thread on keys out to over 4 pages...
How do you start it
I think you have got it a bit wrong aqbout the esteemed Herr Kuntz. I feel he must have designed the sidestand first, hence the need to have a foldie key so that it didnt break. I believe he was considering foldie handlebars next.
By the way, whats he doing now, working for Toyot???
By the way, whats he doing now, working for Toyot???
No No No! heir Oberfuerer K....
oops! we don't talk about that anymore... not even in hushed tones!
long gone i'm afraid.. his twisted genius long gone never to "spoil the breed"
his love of "the master pure race"........
bollox i nearly let old Kuntz past creep in again
hm
Now we have a dilemma. All is not as first seen 
Herr Kuntz may have been the designer "BUT" on closer examination of my foldie key I have discovered another name craftily hidded on the inside.
It appears that Herr Neiman may have been the foldiemeister who first managed to manufacture Herr Kuntzez original vision into a working foldie.
Check your key and post up your findings.
Herr Kuntz may have been the designer "BUT" on closer examination of my foldie key I have discovered another name craftily hidded on the inside.
It appears that Herr Neiman may have been the foldiemeister who first managed to manufacture Herr Kuntzez original vision into a working foldie.
Check your key and post up your findings.
The only reason it folds is because some twat made the metal part too short... or was it, the plastic part to big. No matter.
John
John
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