Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Jeff Moore aka Vintage sales and restorations has a correct air filter he will sell you. he posted it recently on FB.

I have had the same experience with Stainless and chrome. You gotta just leave everything loose and get it all in there/ force it, then tighten it all up. They rarely are “perfect”.

These 6V AGM batteries (available on ebay,just type in # on the battery, MBT6N6 ) are excellent,cheap and fit perfectly into these readily available vintage battery shells. No acid to spill,and vintage era look.

Mahalo Michael, being in Hawaii, it is pure serendipity that this bikes find their way to me..😂🤙🏽 I got this last summer and looking forward to riding it this summer after it’s broken in. I threw in a couple more pics, just as I bought it, a “20 footer”, but the inside of the engine was a mess! Appr...

Totally different engines, one is high pressure fed and other is centrifugally oiled… with only a low pressure pump to feed it.

Yes, you have the later carbs for R51/3. I have a early R51/3 which came with the same carbs you have,the incorrect, later ones. This early 1951 came originally with the same 39/40 carbs found on R51/2, so the search was on, and found a nice set of 39/40 out of Europe. They are rare, so if you want ...

I guess it’s better to have dirty slingers?

Chuck, that is a pic I got off of FB, supposedly rod seized and there it is…. I don’t know the whole story. Pretty dramatic failure though!

A couple more pictures, just finished a complete rebuild of engine and transmission, breaking it in right now. This transmission is the first I rebuilt with the eccentric bushings and paying close attention to shift fork setting really made a difference! This is the smoothest upshift and downshift I...

Here are 2 parts I picked up from Jeff Moore @ vintage restorations. One is very rare / unobtanium, and the other rare, but easier to find. These are for my recently acquired 1958 R69, which came with a more common “Klaxon” horn, but originally came with this Bosch horn, which I gave a quick sand an...