A complete 70-year history of BMW motorcycles up to the introduction of the R850/1100. Includes comprehensive model details and technical specifications, and an extensive section on BMW racing history. Text in German. Difficult to find and expensive.  Check with Amazon.
Hdbd. with slipcase. 392 pages, 1,652 B&W and color ill.

L.J.K. Setright was a very highly regarded writer for many auto magazines and in 1977 he authored this interesting and somewhat quirky book.

A global look at various aspects of the BMW GS motorcycle through the eyes of photojournalist and adventurer Dr. Gregory Frazier. Through two round-the-world trips aboard a BMW GS, this motorcycle journalist captured the GS's while being raced, repaired and roaming the globe. Profusely illustrated with numerous travel tales and inside secrets on the BMW GS. Abridged review from White Horse Press.
Sftbd. 128 pp. 120 color ill.

A new edition to the well-known Brooklands Gold Portfolio series. Features articles and road tests, history, performance data, technical specifications, and more. Available from Classic Motorbooks and Amazon.
Sftbd., 8 x 10 3/4", 172 pp., over 250 B&W ill.

Recently reprinted and just as quickly sold out, this book by veteran BMW authors covers all road and competition bikes, singles, twins, triples and fours.
Sftbd. 128 pp., 120 color ill.

This comprehensive and well-written book tells the full story of these horizontally-opposed machines. Contains in-depth development and racing history, full specifications and technical analysis. All road, off-road and racing motorcycles, as well as military and police models, are included.
Hdbd. 192 pages, B&W and color ill.

An extensive and comprehensive model-by-model history with complete technical specifications, and data on BMW racing machines.

Subtitled Volume 1 - all airheads with twin shocks.

This beautiful hardback book printed on heavy, coated paper, is the translation from German of the first book in Schwietzer's two volume set covering all of the Airheads. Illustrated profusely and with many pages in full color, the book is a joy to the eyes. The text includes many sidebars highlighting interviews with people who designed and produced the motorcycles we love, including Hans Muth, designer of the R90S and the R65LS. The book includes extensive technical information about each model. The chapter on paint codes and colors, which includes color plates, is wonderful in its detail. 168 pages in total, it seems like so much more. Here's hoping that there's not too long a delay in the release of the translation of the second volume.

German motorcycle manufacturers have always used competition as a certain method of improving their machines and market penetration. The author describes the famous as well as the more obscure characters, motorcycles and marques which battled to project Germany to the forefront of the field.  Available at Amazon.

 

This book contains reprinted articles from the pages of Cycle World magazine, including new model reports, road tests, racing models, history, technical analysis, and much more.  Available from Amazon.
Sftbd. 72 pages, over 100 B&W ill.

This book contains reprinted articles from the pages of Cycle World magazine, including new model reports, road tests, racing models, history, technical analysis, and much more.  Available from Amazon.
Sftbd. 80 pages, over 100 B&W ill.