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| 2006: The first Windjammer found! | ||||||||||||||||||
 | The end of June, 1971, George Monroe stopped by to buy a fairing for his BMW. When he saw the Windjammer on my Kawasaki 500, he had to have it. We removed it from my Kawasaki, buffed it up, put a new windshield on it and made up our first BMW hardware. Before we let him go, we took a bunch of pictures of George and his bike. | |||||||||||||||||
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| I knew a remarkable artist, George Tisten. From this photo, George redrew Monroe with a newer BMW and a production Windjammer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| George Monroe, 1971 and the first Windjammer, heading west | ||||||||||||||||||
| This was our business card for the next 5 years | ||||||||||||||||||
| 35 years later, I located George Monroe and the first Windjammer, still in the west | ||||||||||||||||||
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| George Monroe was kind enough let me have my first Windjammer back. This first Windjammer is very different from anything you have seen. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| The very first Windjammer This is what I stared at when riding my H1 2,500 miles to Aspen and back in June of 1971. I had not finished the inside because I did know how it should be. Design for me involves a lot of staring. By the time I got back to Illinois, I knew what to do. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Generally I am not a collector. But this fairing is like an old friend. Thank you George. This means a lot to me. | ||||||||||||||||||
| This Page posted Mar 8, 2006 Updated Aug 3, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
