Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

Michal - The oil filter's on the right side...the oil level (really the pressure) sensor is on the left side. I can't see that the new leak at the sensor has anything to do with the oil change. I think it's "just bad timing". These sensors go bad after a while and leak just like you're tal...

Duane has written about this before. His experience was that the metal caps tended to corrode and short out. He recommended the brown bakelite caps. When I got my R69S, I bought a set of brown ones from Vech...haven't had any problems.

Kurt in S.A.

We're not talking to you until you post some pictures....

Welcome back...Kurt in S.A.

Evan - Close...real close...you also need to include the name associated with one or more of the pictures. It also needs to be a name which includes "jpg". I followed your URL out to your flickr site. I found one of your pictures, right clicked on it, and looked at the properties. I pulled...

I had never heard of the JPS version, or even the Norton bike. I was able to search and find many pictures of a Norton John Player Special. It seems his name has been used with the styling of lots of motorsports activities. Someone posted this picture of a JPS R100RS... http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/phot...

Evan -

Review the postings on this thread:

http://vintagebmw.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=489

Kurt in S.A.

I don't have a very extensive library, but it seems it takes a range of books to figure things out. Here's the books that I have: Roland Slabon - How to Restore Your BMW Motorcycle, Twing 1955-1906; currently out of print but can be found at various places; not really how to restore, but does provid...

The BMW in the original Zen book was definitely a /2. The 1968 R60/2 will not be a rare bike, as quite a few were produced. As to its collectability, that's really in the eye of the beholder. The bike doesn't know it was part of the Zen book...it's just a bike. But some people really like having som...

I have some info saved from another forum. It was recommended to use something like keorsene or paint thinner as a solvent. To some degree, even gasoline could be used. Keep the petcock closed and swish the stuff around. Then follow up with common dishwashing detergent and rinse very well. That shou...

Lever tops should be better. My bike has the lever tops, so I don't have any experience with the other. Here's some threads about this topic from the past. This should give you other people's thoughts on them. http://vintagebmw.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=128&highlight=lever+top http://vintagebmw...