R80/7 or bmw on side badge of engine

[Northern Monkey]

Just a quickie , my 79 r80 has BMW R80/7 on the engine badge and the metal panel adjacent to the removal front cover is flat alloy - I've seen other bikes similar age that have a single 'BMW' wording and the same panel has vertical grooves. , is one more desirable than the other? Which is stock.

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[Northern Monkey]

Mine is like the less shiny one of the two!


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[patrick]

I would say yours is stock and most desirable. The other version is I think the next generation with lighter flywheel and plastic airbox, the start of things going downhill in my humble opinion..............

 

[Rob Farmer]

Yours is pre August 79 and the last of the points model. 79/80 machines are still heavy flywheel but have the finned covers denoting points in a bean can and simplex timing chains.

The gearbox for yours has been replaced at some point in the past. You have the earlier smooth gearbox.

Your mainstand bolt is f%cked as well and about to give up the ghost by the look of it.

Your clutch cable is too tight. Does it change ok?

 

[flatdog]

Yours is pre August 79 and the last of the points model. 79/80 machines are still heavy flywheel but have the finned covers denoting points in a bean can and simplex timing chains.

The gearbox for yours has been replaced at some point in the past. You have the earlier smooth gearbox.

Your mainstand bolt is f%cked as well and about to give up the ghost by the look of it.

Your clutch cable is too tight. Does it change ok?

You sad bastard

 

[Rob Farmer]

You sad bastard

yep!

I didn't want to mention the apparent baggy speedo rubber. At least its got a cable tie on it.

 

[peepingtom]

You sad bastard

He is a legend isn't he

 

[flatdog]

I just wish the internet was around in 1990 when I bought my first bmw.
He could have advised me on my r100 charging problem that did my head in for 5 years, until the BMW dealer in Port Elizabeth talked me into selling her with 1900 kilometers on the clock for @£500.00 in 1995.

Was just a dud battery afterall. fuckers.



.............oooops sorry off topic..

Seeing yours just sent me into an absolute outrage about my experience.

 

[Northern Monkey]

Thanks for the replies, the photos are not of my bike , just one I found on Google to explain my point ( I'm away from home hence no photo of my actual bike) but I'm scared of posting an actual picture in case it's knackered!!!
My gearbox isn't a smooth one, it's got a 'square' crisis cross texture ( Gordon Bennett I'm naff at explaining! Piccies are much easier!)


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[Northern Monkey]

Here's my engine in its original guise - it's all still in boxes at the moment- so it's a heavy flywheel one its on a T plate 1979 - but haven't seen a bean flicker anywhere so don't know about that!


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[Rob Farmer]

Thanks for the replies, the photos are not of my bike , just one I found on Google to explain my point ( I'm away from home hence no photo of my actual bike) but I'm scared of posting an actual picture in case it's knackered!!!
My gearbox isn't a smooth one, it's got a 'square' crisis cross texture ( Gordon Bennett I'm naff at explaining! Piccies are much easier!)


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It was all in jest. Lets face it all airheads are knackered to some extent.

 

[Rob Farmer]

Here's my engine in its original guise - it's all still in boxes at the moment- so it's a heavy flywheel one its on a T plate 1979 - but haven't seen a bean flicker anywhere so don't know about that!

Poor thing. Needs some TLC

 

[markjackson]

The pictures have reminded me just how ridiculously long the plug leads actually are.

Given how coil upgrades used to be so popular on 80s japanese stuff, I wonder if the fancy tuned airheads would noticeably benefit from those modern 'on the plug' coils?

 

[Rob Farmer]

Those coils are fitted the opposite way round to normal making the leads even longer.

 

[Northern Monkey]

Where abouts in the world are you rob? You seem a very knowledgable chap! And are you a 'professional'?


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[Rob Farmer]

I'm in loughborough. Generally full of shit but am an enthusiastic amateur.

 

[Northern Monkey]

Shame you're not closer! I could see myself throwing money your way towards the end of the restoration when the fecker won't run!!


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