Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Well, the pictures have to be on the web somewhere. You use the link at the upper left above the box that you enter the text.

Send it to me via private message and I'll find a place to put it for others to see.

I'd really like to see that in a picture. Have you ever been into this area before? A washer in that area almost like someone was doing some kind of bodge-job to make things work. A bent push rod is not a good thing. Some investigation is going to be necessary to figure out what bent it. Most likely...

Dan - I bought two of the items from the link that I provided. No other adapters were needed for my R69S. Basically, I removed the air tubes from the filter to the carb inlet. With the rubber collars provided, the metering device slips over the inlet to each carb. Before I do any of this, I ride the...

Sorry to do this, but here's some more reading...I just ran across this posted on another /2 forum..haven't read it fully yet: http://www.britishmotoring.net/current_issue/BritishM-0901_How-To_full.pdf The article indicates that too much ZDDP can be bad. Which tells me you want to have enough and pr...

This is debated back and forth. Vech makes a big deal of this and will sell you GL4 oil. The older the machine, the more likelihood there is yellow metal in the drivetrain which can be attacked by the extra sulphur in some GL5 oils. Generally, though there's not a plethora of /2s waisting away on th...

What part number did you order? The on-line fiche shows 32 72 2 072 218 for an R69S: http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=0233&mospid=48044&btnr=32_1086&hg=32&fg=10 although the table says it has "ended". I didn't find the part on S. Meyer's website. I did find a l...

There are folks on this list who have contacts in Germany...hopefully they'll chime in. What about contacting Uli's Motorradladen, S. Meyer, Motorrad Stemler and see if they have any contacts? From the resource links, I found the following: http://www.bmw-veteranenclub.de/ http://dreher-oldtimerteil...

Ian -

I tried to post an answer on pictures, but the spam-cop caught me. Maybe it will show up in time. But you read more about posting pictures in this previous thread.

http://www.vintagebmw.org/v7/node/5154

Ian - To put pictures inside a post, you'll need to have the image out on the web somewhere in an account like smugmug, snapfish, flickr, tinypic, etc. They usually have help tools to create the necessary language to link the picture in your post. Another way is to use the left icon at the top of th...

My understanding of these bikes, especially those around the war, is pretty limited. I thought I read something on one of these forums by either Bruce or Darryl outlining how things ending up in Russian and finally Chinese hands, but I can't seem to recall where I read this. Is there a possibility t...