Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

You can still build it and call it a "short wheel base model"...?

You blasted it while the engine was partially together? The trans as well? I thought it was a bare case(?) I have never seen that before!

I have the EXACT same issue with mine and the same thoughts on solutions as well,quiet when cold,tappety when hot. I was racking my brain to try to fix this,checking valves etc.,and they were OK. It has been 5k miles in my ownerships (total 15,348miles)and when I rebuild/do slingers next year,then ...

It is rectangular based,and it is a sealed battery. The website incorrectly says "acid not included",when it is a sealed unit. It is the same dimiension as the /2 ones.

Here is a great battery I used for my R69s. It is the exact height of the old original types and also much better than my previous battery. Initially I had purchased a "vintage battery" from S. Meyer in Germany and it ended up being a "vintage battery shell" with a small sealed ...

Enjoy yourself!

Put it in a solvent tank then blow it out,or spray a garden hose through every orifice then compressed air and I would repeat the process atleast 6-10 times and get a pick and inspect every nook & cranny. Glass beads love to stick on the oil/grease stuck in the small crevices.

Post a picture of you can. The pins should be "easy" to turn. They are probably siezed up and maybe someone did a vietbodge on the other pin. Benchmarkwerks has those parts in stock. You may need to order the 2 bearings/2 seals/2 pins to get that swingarm back to snuff,since 4mm sounds li...

You will be time & $$$ ahead if you sopend the money up front and buy a low mileage example or a restored bike. Look on ebay there are a lot of /2's on there right now. In fact there are 2 US model /2's,one with 11k miles,another with 7k miles,and a R60 with a R69s engine. All of these bikes wi...

It attaches to one of the lower studs of the transmission end cover. Simply remove one of the 10mm head nuts,and place the loop under the nut.