Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners

If you have the original mechanical voltage regulator Doug Rinckes states: Sometimes when the generator has been disassembled or the battery has been connected the wrong way around, the generator won't work. When you start the engine, there is no voltage coming from the generator, so the field windi...

This is how a wise man learns As long as you only make the same mistake once its ok If you do it again that is not good And if you do it one more time it has been said you could be not be very smart If you have the electronic regulator I have read that connecting the battery backwards will burn it o...

Guess our BMW are not safe

Tommy

Im sure all states dont have a motorcycle inspection sticker looking at the New York inspection sticker 1st Pic What a joke Great way to destroy the image of any bike I wouldn't even want to put this on a beat up dirt bike 2nd Pic In Mass we have 2 stickers on the plate The one on the left is the cu...

I agree
It does look better than the black


Tommy

Very nice for a partial restoration A+++ Have fun riding and its ok to get it dirty PS 305 Scrambler The boot for the clutch cable is not properly installed The front tire air pressure also is too low Went to Motogiro in Brattleboro Vt last year with my r69s Also rode my r27 to Brodie Mountain in Ne...

You forgot to put the saddle bags and sidecar on
At least they are not on backwards or upside down !!

Otherwise see no other problems
Looks great
Keep up the good work

Tommy

Looks great Its always a good feeling to be so near your first ride But Before you do go out The upper bolt on the right front shock is in backwards I haven't done that one but did run my 55 r50 for several years before I realized the the ears holding the headlight were installed upside down You als...

After 35 years
Yes looking forward some before and after pic's
Can't wait to start riding again

Tommy

Got my 69 R69S out today. Went for a ride till the rain forced me back home. Just got both my new chrome rims and stainless spokes fitted. Thanks to Murphy's BMW in Eugene, Or.(older stuff) for the good wheel hub. My rear brake drum was all chewed up. New mufflers new engine case guards. Now she is ...