Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Thanks for all your comments, guys! Yeah, I try not to hit animals, but never again to the extent of losing control and endangering a human life. BTW, with your help, I figured out how to upload photos -- check them out. Craig, you're right. Really fast Japanese bikes were emerging in the late '60s,...

A footnote to my previous message, this one focusing on the tech details of the transmission in my VW-powered R60/2: More than an engine-transmission adaptor and frame mods, a tall-geared trans was essential to the success of this wacky project. While the stock /2 bike does about 4,000 rpm in 4th ge...

My first motorcycle was a 1967 R60/2, which I bought new from a long-gone motorcycle shop in Wilmington, DE, where I also met a guy who had bought the identical bike, only 11 serial numbers from mine. We became good friends, making bike trips with our girl friends, first to Montreal, then to Key Wes...

Thanks, staggerlee and tinkertimejeff! I just need to see the underside of a seat, to make sure it has strings of coils rather than a single slab of rubber like mine. The two designs seem to have been used interchangeably in the 1960s, and they both looked the same from the top. Separately, I think ...

Does anyone have a scrap two-up seat from the 1960s that uses eight strings of flat coil springs? I'm looking to use these strings of coils to restore the seat on my first bike, a 1967 R60 that I bought new. Its stock seat uses a rubber slab that's badly split (but no longer available). However, oth...

For blacknight: Yes, there's room for that /5 rubber air scoop in a /2 frame, but not when you mount the stock tank. I assume you either discovered this, or you're using a non-standard tank.

Hope you all like (or already use) my method, since it doesn't require messing with timing marks and works on any opposed engine: With the bike on the center stand and in gear, turn the engine over with the rear wheel. With both valve covers off, observe when a pair of rockers are moving (both rocki...

I've retrofitted the optional turn signals, and it's not difficult. First, make sure your bars has a hole in the center for the two wires that will go to a turn signal unit in the headlight. Next, make sure your signals fit nicely in the end of the bars, and that the expansion nuts tighten them secu...

My air cleaner housing touches the triangular bracket that's part of the frame, and it looks like it just needs another 1/8 or 1/4 inch of room. A seat bracket bolts to it, so I assume it's indeed the seat plate. I already had the frame powder-coated, so I don't want to do any welding or grinding on...

Sounds like a wonderful conversion bike. I'm installing a '71 R75/5 engine and trans in my R60/2 frame, and everything has gone pretty well, except that the top of the cast air cleaner housing contacts the /2 frame. How was that addressed on your conversion? I've seen a bunch of photos now that show...