Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

FRame looks original r66 seria 2,engine numbers restamp,shoud looks like r61 numbers etc... After the war got left many engine, case and heads cylinder,if is no number in it,could be old military stock.Mark Hugget told me. This r66 case you can see its been removed original numbers. Nice project ver...

I just email them last week,i got replie very next day.
regards lui

r6 engine from afn england.
The previus owner used till early 1990(second owner since the bike was new) ,than he got r5 engine for the bike.swaped the engine ,sold on as r5 than he left with the r6 engine.Thats how i came across with it.

Thank you all the info. That would be nice to know more history about the engine. Could you please point me out where to find afn sales lisf for bmw motorbikes?so far i find no lead.. I can see you have lots of knowledge of bmw im greatfull what you already said,been usefull for me. THat oldtimergar...

The engine number belongs to a BMW R 5 which was manufactured on February 04th, 1937 and delivered on March 12th, 1937 to the BMW importer A.F.N. Limited, Falcon Works in London.

So is not a special engine.

Nice bike John!
I hope you will enjoy it a lot!
Sametimes on germany ebay you can find them.

There is a foto how should be like original one,also in the uk the they were selling with miles speedos,not km.

its true,mix of parts there thats what i came across,,i didnt have enough money to buy complett project ...sadly Engine case is r5 by number,the front one on the foto is early r5.Also got more spare for the engines. I should consider look for r5 frame+drive+gearbox than build a r5,or just carry on t...

Thank you. its funn ,to meet and talk ppl who got the same interest.
Still long way to go,i know.Of course if i can help with anythink im more than happy to do it.

The frame could be replika,they making in poland. R12 r11 r17 frame would cost around replika 1000euros. What usually happen ,,they find a engine with gearbox ,than build the whole bike from it. Or could be r12 frame converted into r17,myself i got r11 replika frame . To find original r17 frame almo...

Hello Guys!
My r51,same replika same original parts,its took me 1year to gather all this parts,i trying to build a motorike from it.
If anyone got same spare parts what i havent got im interesting to buy it.regards