Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

While your checking for leaks with water, check the capacity, total while filling it up, then main and reserve while draining. You can adjust the main/reserve if you are not happy with it. This is much easier now than after you start using gas in it.

I had a tank made in India a few years ago. The vendor was “us.vidhi”. It is a 6.5 gal Schorsch Meier copy, without the tool box and with 2 petcock bungs, painted and pinstriped. It cost about $700 with shipping to California. The quality is so so. One of the baffles inside the tank had come loose d...

I had this bag made by a guy I found on Etsy, in Milan. It was a reasonable price for making and shipping. This was about 6 years ago. He made it to my specifications, but it was similar to some other bags he makes standard. Its made from heavy leather. Easy too remove, but easily stolen too, I gues...

Here is a picture from eBay.

Browsing on eBay I saw some aluminum heat shields for the /2 carburetors. I presume these are to help prevent flooding. I’ve never heard of them before, do they work? Anyone know anything about them?

Jerry

Thanks for the links. I read through these posts and they mainly cover the Classic Dynamo Regulator Conversions bulbs. I’m using an aftermarket H4 reflector and lens right now with a 6v 35/35w halogen bulb. There is only about 1mm of clearance between the speedometer and the bulb socket so none of t...

Icarus, Can you send me a link to the referenced thread?

Has anyone tried this 6v P43T LED bulb from Ulis?

https://www.ulismotorradladen.de/articl ... white.aspx#

Jerry Hale

redavide, did you ever get your generator brush wear problem solved? I'm having the same problem with one of the brushes on my 1961 R69S? What was the problem and solution?

Todd, how do you like those stainless steel rims that you mentioned you purchased from S. Meyer? Did they lace up ok? How does the stainless look? Do they have the 5 dimples in them like the Weinmann rims?

Jerry