Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Thanks for the advice, folks. The larger Allen wrench was close to what I found success with. I wound up using a Torx bit that was barely able to bottom out into the hole and get it broken loose. I wish I was measuring the torque on this as it was rocking the whole lift quite a bit. I would have bee...

Well, I wish it was more retro BMW and less American Cruiser overall. I had a test ride while stopping in to pick up some parts for my R Nine T, and really enjoyed it. So much so, that I rented one for a week in January. After riding across a good bit of Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and bac...

Ok. Looking for anybody who has a good trick for this. My new-to-me '85 R80 apparently had a previous owner who did not believe in torque wrenches. I'm going to completely rebuild the bike and am just in the tear down phase. All the drain plugs were over torque. Like way, way over. I got lucking wit...