Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Welcome! Definitely not the stock oil pan. Here's a picture of my stock pan...I was experimenting with magnet placement.

On Duane Ausherman's site he says there are three versions of the fork cross brace. In '55, the cross section was round. In '63 with the addition of the harmonic balancer, they flattened the brace to clear the small bump in the engine cover. In about '66-67, they flattened the brace again and it is ...

Welcome! I have had a Reynolds on my /7 since the early years when I bought the bike used. Probably put it on in the '82-83 timeframe. The stands tend to generate some discussion like tires and oil!! But I would never go back to the stock stand. The bike is more stable on the center stand as the wei...

Define "pretty hard". I'd say no since the issue is really running the engine at wide open throttle and probably above 95 mph and near max RPM.

It brightens when you increase engine RPM since the charging system is getting more efficient and dumping more into the battery. The lights run off of what's in the battery.

Not sure if this helps:

https://www.bobsmotorcycles.com/product ... adge-r755/

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Parts at the top of this page: https://www.bmwhucky.com/007552.html

I can't find anything for the /2. But for my 1970-on Airhead, it lists 1.5mm minimum thickness. If you're at 2mm and you're there, seems like a good idea just to go ahead and replace the brake material.

That high beam light in the tach seems pretty simple. It has one power wire going to it and the other wire goes to ground. The power wire hooks to the small board in the headlight shell. On the other side of that terminal are two wires for power. One goes to the headlight, presumably getting power w...

This particular adjusting screw actually has a hole running through the middle of it. Air gets into the screw coming under and around the small cap that is on the outside. The air then goes through some small holes near the outside and then through holes that are in the tapered end of the screw. Whe...

Maybe it's listed here somewhere? Let us know if you find it. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=4&yearFrom=1948&yearTo=1969&makeMatch=2&make=BMW&modelMatch=0&model=R&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=on&class50=50&class51=51&a...