Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

A good discussion magnetos recently:

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Can you give us more background? Does this happen all the time since you got the bike or did it start up after some maintenance?

Welcome to the forum! Are you familiar with the magneto safety gap? The two spark plug leads attach to the forward side of the coil. Just below those two attachments, on the magneto body, are two "points". The gap between the ends of the plug wires at these points should be 10-11 mm. If closer than ...

Not necessarily definitive, but I looked at some price lists on Beemergarage. For 1964, it lists white was available for the R60 and R69S. In 1966, the price list indicates white was available also for the R27. Earlier price lists don't mention color choices.

The number was put there by the factory when assembled. It represents the variation in distance between centers of the camshaft and crankshaft in hundredths of millimeters. A positive number means that it was larger than standard. This helps identify what gear sets are used when assembling the engin...

I just tried to upload a huge PDF file and got a message that said it was too large. If you didn't get any messages, then I'm not sure. What was the size of the file you tried to upload? I could find something I have around the same size and see what happens to me.

This appears to be something that fits water cooled VWs. The IBMWR site lists the item although not by part number. Your part number fits many VWs per the Autozone website:

https://ibmwr.org/index.php/bmw-parts-s ... 100vwparts

I just uploaded a smallish PDF to a post...didn't seem to have a problem. Maybe yours is too big?

As for adding your information to the club's library, follow the link at the bottom of this page:

https://vintagebmw.org/library/

Some pictures on this page:

http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/photopages/photosr26.htm

BMW Salis has a few fender brackets:

https://www.bmwclassicmotorcycles.com/p ... rackets-4/