Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Hello everyone, I'm Steve. This looks like a great forum and I will be looking for some advice & tips. As you can tell by my user name I'm more of a Harley guy, but I just had two BMW's fall into my lap. An uncle gave me a 1994 r100rt (50,000 mi) because, as he puts it "just got to old to ride". It'...

From the AMCA forum: http://classicmotorcycleroadshow.com/?page_id=122 What it is: Classic Motorcycle Roadshow is a new television series which leads viewers on a hunt for the elusive ‘barn find’, that rare motorcycle which, while possibly well past its prime, dusty, rusty, and battered, is in fact ...

Hello BMW fans, my name is Matthias, I come from Bavaria / Germany. I own a slash 2 (R 60/2), a brandnew 12GS, and I am looking also for a worthy prewar BMW bike since years. I live in Regensburg ( http://www.regensburg.de/sixcms/detail.php/3854 ), a midieval town -a 80mile drive from BMW-Munich and...

I'm looking to do my first fluid change on my "new" '52 R25/2. The owner's manual says to use engine oil. I called Vech and ordered fluids (before I had the manual in hand) and they sent me GL4 80w90 gear oil. I understand the GL4 part...bronze parts, etc. But should I be using engine oil instead? I...

Anyone ever tried one of these or similar?
http://www.benchmarkworks.com/articles/ ... lutch.html

I have Peter S Meier stamped on the bottom of an aluminum sump cover - any ideas about it?

I was expecting to see BMW...

Merry Xmas Everyone ans safe riding over the holiday season.

Cheers
Peter

Happy new year everyone! It was a beautiful day and decided to ride to the west side.Here are some pictures I took,and I hope you enjoy them.What better way than a ride to start 2010??? 8) http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x22/TAI-VW/BronR60Yokohamabay010-1.jpg http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x2...

Bike looks good after a clean. I have made myself a list of parts I might need for the first slinger clean, engine tune up and recommission. Am I missing anything - is there something that I should do while I am in there? I'm waiting on a barrington manual - but I'd like to put a parts order in befo...

How accurate are their reproductions?