Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

YES. Thank you ! That helps a lot.It does make sense to take it apart and double check everything as that's a lot of water under the bridge and dealing with unverified history it would always be a worry when riding down the road ! Just the amount of stone chips on the frame suggest to me much more t...

I am trying to gather information about a 1964 R60 with Steib sidecar that supposedly left the factory designated for police work and fitted with 12 volt electrics but I am a bit skeptical. I see no evidence of a siren or special lighting ever having been fitted.The bike was originally advertised in...

It looks like I have a set of barrels from the very first R63. Looking through my 1929 and 1930 literature it is evident that the R63 and it's side valve sibling the R62 were both made into 1929 the first year for the R11 and R16 which would account for the overlapping of numbers for the different m...

Yes Thanks. I didn't phrase or word my question properly. The barrels are on my series 2 R16 but the barrel number is from the very first R63 ! I find this somewhat astonishing, The numbers look authentic and I can not see why anyone would bother restamping those. The numbers on my cylinder heads ar...

I have long wondered if there is any special significance to the number 75001 stamped on both of the barrels on my series 2 R16.

Good review. My local dealer has 5 of these R18's and I don't think they have sold one in over a year !

4th Coast Fours in Waddington New York can weld anything.

Great to hear you are riding that bike ! I imagine those San Francisco hills must take a toll on brakes!

on my R16 I get about 118 mm but it is hard to measure in situ on the bike.I will take it apart if you can not get a more definitive answer

I agree. Well done .