Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

I appreciate everyone's thoughts, and I have no doubt you're both right on their successful purpose and function. BMW (and countless other manufacturers) used them for good reason, obviously. I don't own the tools nor the lift to easily remove the forks and the gaiters without simply cutting the gai...

Protecting the downtubes from flying debris is a good catch. I do seem to see a number of builds online that seem to be, at least for photos, not using gaiters. But obviously some of these builds may never be intended to actually hit the streets! As BMW didn't use them in later years (like perhaps e...

Hi, new to BMW moto ownership and I recently acquired a clean '74 R60/6. I really love the bike (REALLY love it) and it was already in the middle stages of mostly cosmetic cafe racer mods, which I plan to continue. Overall the bike has been well cared for and looks and runs much better than I might ...