Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

If your rack has flanges at the back with bolt holes in them, all you need are hardware store bolts, nuts, washers, and lock washers to attach the brackets that slip into the locks on the back of the Krauser bags. Fitting things up is pretty obvious. If your rack doesn't have the flanges, you either...

I recently moved my R69S from Michigan (alt 365 ft above sea level) to New Mexico (7200 ft). To get the bike running right I dropped the needles in the carbs from the middle position to the top (there were three positions only) and changed the main jets from 135 to 130. I used the info on the Bing c...

Check Ebay. There's currently a set of Craven Dolomite panniers there, with a buy-it-now price of $650, as I remember. But the luggage rack they go on looks different from the one that fits my 69S. Other Cravens, too, on Ebay, Golden Arrows they appear to be, but they look in rough shape. For inform...

Vech at Benchmark has key blanks for the fork lock (512512335545 or 51251233554S) and the square keys for the tool box lid (16114080172): http://www.benchmarkworks.com/. You can get a locksmith to cut the key to fit your fork lock, a lot easier than drilling out the old lock, though putting in a new...

You can buy a brand new wide seat from Ulis Motorradladen in Frankfurt, Germany, for a little less than $500 at today's exchange rate. I don't know whether that includes the three main brackets, which would cost another ~$48. The side supports that connect the rear of the seat from the forward bolt ...

Question: does the aluminum trim for the narrow bench seat on the /2s follow the same contours, i.e., have the same curves, as the trim for the wide Schorsch Meier "US" seat? Uli's Motorradladen tells me that the aluminum trim for the wide seat is no longer available. They do have the trim...

Question: does the aluminum trim for the narrow bench seat on the /2s follow the same contours, i.e., have the same curves, as the trim for the wide Schorsch Meier "US" seat? Uli's Motorradladen tells me that the aluminum trim for the wide seat is no longer available. They do have the trim...

Anyone have experience with Glass from the Past? Their url is http://www.caferacingparts.com/ They sell what they claim is an exact reproduction of an R90S fairing, with a clear windshield, for $275. A dashboard is $60 extra. They claim that it uses all the original mounting hardware, which they don...

Somewhere (this forum?) sometime (last few months?) there was mention of a plug that dealers used sometimes to install in the threaded hole on the clutch lever housing meant to take a rear view mirror when no mirror was fitted there. As I remember, someone who seemed to know said that plug was no lo...

I'd be interested in a set, too, and I'd pay before you ship them.

all best, Lincoln

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