The day you passed my heart broke in two, one side filled with memories, the other side died with you!  Missing you more each day....I'll love you forever

Dear Karen,
We cant believe it! We feel the outmost sympathy with you and your family. We are mentally with you and wish you a lot of strength in this difficult time. We will forever remember Uli as a close friend.

We are very concerned about Ulli's death. We can not believe it. He was such a strong natural man. Our holiday together was wonderful and now gets an even stronger meaning for us. Unfortunately we can only mentally be with you because of the distance. We wish you and your family strength in this difficult time. We will come back and visit Ulli's gravesite. We are hugging you sincerely. In love Uwe & Karin, (Boppard, Germany)

Rick sounds like he was an interesting, fascinating man--wish we'd had a chance to meet. He clearly passed a lot of fine traits and standards to his children. Adam, we feel your loss as close friends and comrades. God rest his soul, and God comfort yours.

I am very saddened to hear of Rick's passing. 

For many years Rick was thee go-to guy in the Detroit BMW club for anything technical. His wealth of knowledge on any BMW related matter was amazing. 

When my R90s transmission started failing, I first met Rick and developed a close friendship, looking forward to seeing his workshop and latest projects when I came over.
 
Rick and I were in the International R90s club together and traveled to one of it's rally's in Ohio, camping and riding our old BMW's together, enjoying the trip immensely. 

He was practical and had a great sense of humor, once you got to know him. Anyone who saw his sidecar with the reverse system, quickly realized that Rick was a genius. His system appeared as if BMW made it. 

He told me he was trained as a machinist in Germany, where for a time, you were given a piece of metal and files, and had to make different objects with just the files and your hands. I think of that every time I'm making something, and how great a feeling it is to actually create something with your own ingenuity and minimal tooling. 
 
I was going through some of my old parts the other day and there I find a "easy clutch" system that Rick made for me. It was a clever clutch lever reduction system, and he made three of them. 2 for me and one for himself. Also on the shelf was a mocked up R90s master cylinder, when I talked to him about increasing the stopping force on a stock R90s. And a very beautifully made stainless steel "U-bar" that he designed and marketed for reinforcing the stock BMW saddlebag system, that when overloaded, would stress and break the stock steel mounts.
 
After he moved to Las Vegas, we still kept in touch, talking old bikes, problems and solutions. On a 2008 bike trip to Utah, Rick met our group at Bryce Canyon, where we camped together on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. 10 short years ago, and it feels like yesterday.
 
Rest in Peace brother. I hope you get to ride that gorgeous R51/3 where the roads are never straight.

My deepest sympathy to Karen and family.  I will truly miss Rick's friendship.  I will miss his company on vintage bike rides, but will always remember our rides to places like Beatty, Searchlight, Pahrump and Panguitch.  I will miss wandering the auction floor with him, and critiquing bikes.  I will miss his technical expertise, but will always have fond memories of my "apprentice sessions" in the garage, where he so graciously shared his knowledge by letting me look over his shoulder, or looked over mine as he talked me through a repair.  Farewell my friend, until we meet again.

My sincere condolences. I am so heartbroken over your loss. In fact all our loss. May God Bless you all, and welcome Rick into his arms, with a great bike to ride.
Jim Bryant

Karen, Adam, Larry and family,
We are so very sorry for your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Laura, Kelsey & Karlin

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Ulrich "Rick" Huemmerich

December 16, 1944 – May 31, 2018

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