Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

1) Besides putting the battery on a battery tender, stabilizing the fuel(i used 'seafoam') and draining/cleaning the float bowls are there any other suggestions?

2) Any suggestions for first start up of season after the bike has sat thru the winter?

Thanx

Yes, really...Streamlining The R12. I came across an article regarding a French designer who indeed do this very thing in the fourties, written by Paul D'orleans on his wonderful blog The Vinategent. He writes: "In 1947,Louis Lucien Lepoix founded his own design atelier, initially focussing on ...

i'm thinking about swapping out my R11's single sum carb for a twin carb set-up. anybody have any experience with the real-world usability of the various brands that'll fit? or some good leads on a rebuilt set they'd care to part with? for the sake of correctness i should be looking for amal-fischer...

Can somebody post a close up photograph of an R62/52 front licence plate and the mounting brackets?

Check this out........I was going to rebuild my R69s motor without the damper,this has me thinking otherwise however..........
http://www.sandv.com/downloads/0809lang.pdf

I have a BMW R27 with a speedometer that is half working. The speedometer part works fine, but the odometer is not working. I am
wondering if anyone in the club could tell me of a good place to send
it off for repair this winter?
Michael Muir-Harmony

Here is a picture of what I have on my R27. What is the metal piece suppose to look like, obviously mine was broken and someone drilled into the frame to attach another "cludgy" piece. As you can see there are two drilled holes in the frame - I don't believe either one is original. If you ...

Results of the Midamerica motorcycle auction.

http://www.midamericaauctions.com/showa ... rch&ID=140

Getting close to putting my R69S engine together,however I wanted the cases to look good so after reading horror stories about media blasting I decided not to use glass bead or walnuts,I used BAKING SODA! Using a small pistol type air gun,I made a home-made siphon blast gun and with some baking soda...

Have had a look around the forum and got some info. Does anyone have any ideas for a bike that'll be driven regularly. Not too concerned about period tread Pattern - more interested in grip in the wet. Hoping for something that will be a similar size and shape to original to fill up the guards and k...