Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

I swapped coils from the original to a new one last year and they are very different. The original wire was screwed or pushed onto a spike connection inside the coil, secured with a screw-on cap. The new one has a metal cap on the wire, pressed into the coil, held right with the boot. PXL_20210607_0...

Thanks Tommy and James, great to learn new things. It looks like I'm safe and then some using 16 gauge.

Is 16 gauge wire OK to use for a front brake light switch, running 6v to an LED tail/brake light? Fortunately my bike has a later handlebar perch with the threaded hole for the switch, and the proper switch is readily available. I have 16 gauge on hand, but I've read that the 6v bikes preferred 14 o...

Whenever I order parts I add in a few, always rolled copper. They're less than a dollar each, and now I must have two dozen. Seeing them sitting there encourages me to change the oil, so simple on these bikes.

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Sat May 28, 2022 11:19 am

Hi Patrick-
Yes, that was Ginni and I ...

Anything you can come up with will be appreciated. I have the article about done and will let them know other photos may follow in the next week or two. I made a point not to take many photos, now I'm kicking myself.

George - were you on the R69 sidecar rig? If so I'd like to get some photos from you. VBMWO may include a rework of my ride report in the next magazine, and I'd love to show a few of the other BMWs there. By my count there were five R27s (three entries plus Will P's two) and two sidecar rigs, yours ...

I rode the spring Motogiro USA in Tennessee and North Carolina this past weekend on my R27. It was a real coming-out party for the bike, which had been recommissioned last year after sitting for nearly 40 years. The main refresh was done by a pro shop, and it took me about six months after that to w...

It's probably time to plan for next year as well ... Maybe a line of a century of motorrad excellence. I don't know if BMW is planning anything since they did corporate 100th anniversary models in 2016, but I think most motorcycle owners consider 1923 the real birth year.

Fortunately it was easier that I thought. The new springs, new brushes combo was showing lots of arcing and the generator light would come back on at higher RPMs. So I switched back to the old brushes, with new springs, and all is good. Everything in there looks buttery smooth, no sparks/arcing, gen...

I'm glad I found this thread! VBMWMO is invaluable for a guy like me trying to keep an old bike going. Thanks to this thread and another one that James Wonder started about his R50S charging issue, I narrowed a charging problem I'm having on my R27 down to the brushes floating when revving. I have n...