Can't wait til Friday
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Nice bike lift.Get rid of the antique though.
I bet you can't wait ... Do tell ... Age/history etc etc
Assume you mean the bike - can't tell you much about the bike-lift
BMW R50 - 1957 vintage. Dutch owned from original registration. I wanted a 1957 one (same age as me) and so I visited a couple of BMW guys in Holland - one, a Dutch BMW restorer found this for sale in pieces (unfinished project of seller's father who presumably had passed away). Matching frame and engine numbers.
Lovingly rebuilt and restored by a highly competent mechanic (ie not me!), it started and ran well after 20 years without running, the gearbox and carbs have now been stripped and rebuilt also. Supposedly now an easy starter, I will get to test this myself at the weekend.
Had a test ride a few weeks ago before work on gearbox and brakes
A bit different from my RT LC
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That looks to be a lovely example.
I bet the seats are comfortable too. Better than the sand bags that bike
manufacturers provide today.
That bike takes me back to my R69S days!
Enjoy.......
I bet the seats are comfortable too. Better than the sand bags that bike
manufacturers provide today.
That bike takes me back to my R69S days!
Enjoy.......
Nice one.
Thanks gents: hoping for a sunny summer so I can enjoy some chilled out riding on it.
Its been downhill ever since they stopped making those.
Dunno Rob, I reckon my RT LC is a brilliant bike!
But I accept it won't have the longevity of the old R50. Bart, the Dutch guy who has done this for me, tells me the main bearing is the same as for the Leopard tank. Also, that when he started restoring old BMWs he used to check the crankshaft tolerances on them. But he said he never found one out of tolerance so he doesn't bother checking much anymore!
GS-Jonesy
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You lucky bugger. That's stunning. I hope you enjoy it.
I have a request - please ride it as much as you can. The only way youngsters like my boys will really get to appreciate stuff like this is if they see them on the road being used as they were designed to be used
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I have a request - please ride it as much as you can. The only way youngsters like my boys will really get to appreciate stuff like this is if they see them on the road being used as they were designed to be used
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B Murr
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Thats a very nice piece of machinery, enjoy.
Can't wait til Friday
When this is due to arrive...(and I know it's not a GS so feel free to eject me from this forum, but I do have a GS you know )
Well it is an airhead so you are in.
So, its Friday evening.
Did it happen?
When this is due to arrive...(and I know it's not a GS so feel free to eject me from this forum, but I do have a GS you know )
Well it is an airhead so you are in.
So, its Friday evening.
Did it happen?
Indeed!
Now to tell HMRC and register with DVLA.
Hoping the manufacture date of 1957 (rather than the logbook record date of 1962) means I don't need an MoT.
Now to tell HMRC and register with DVLA.
Hoping the manufacture date of 1957 (rather than the logbook record date of 1962) means I don't need an MoT.
thats a beautiful bike i would love one of those myself
What a lovely old bike....
I made a model of one of them when I was a kid.....nearest I ever got to the real thing....
I made a model of one of them when I was a kid.....nearest I ever got to the real thing....
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