Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Grant, yes they are designed to be interchangeable and I wouldn't worry too much about keeping them exclusively front or rear as long as the splines are good. I would even think it would be beneficial to swap them every year or so to even any wear on the tires and splines.
Brian

I assume it has a 35:9 final drive? You can try an R67/2 drive at 32:9 to get a better top end but acceleration will drop.

Just some overall pics of the bikes is fine, I just like to look at plunger bikes!
Yeah, I'm kinda weird.

Brian

Tommy, you beat me to it. Your '52 should have straight headers and the 190mm wide center stand. I'd like to see some pics of BOTH your plungers!

Brian

Don't know of any final drive with that ratio. As I said, the 32:11 of the R60 is really close. Are these available speedos the cheap re-pops?

I looked through the manuals on John's Beemer site and no model is shown with .715 ratio for Kph speedos. Your's is in Kph, and with BMW logo? Possibly, the R60 with a ratio of .70 actually used a .715?

Looks expensive though, and that lid! It makes me wonder what Hoske was thinking by putting threads in that didn't match current badging. I'd like to find copper M4 screws to match the badge but I think that is only a dream. Do you ever fill it? I'm afraid with that much weight up high it would make...

Yes I do!
Finally got my BMW badges on. These are 70mm R12 style repops from "Oldtimers" I had to fudge out the holes just a tad for the M4 screws to fit the Hoske "keg".


Brian

James, I just had my bike shipped from San Diego to Des Moines and used Haul Bikes. Cost was about $800. I had a little communication problem with the driver and missed the delivery. He went on his merry way so I had to pay another $250 for a missed delivery! It took an additional five weeks to get ...

Short of prying the loops out a bit I don't have a clue. It must be rusted solid to something!