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Available from Motorworks. Not cheap at around £15.00 + p&p but not a bad investment. The other end of the spanner is for adjusting the steering head bearings and is designed so that it can be used with the upper yoke in place... Perhaps a letter to père Noël. Rob Thanks Rob! I'd say a very good in...

Thanks Rob. Unfortunately my 78 S had lost her toolkit (and her headlight fairing) a while back when I brought her home in 2015.

I understand it's the pin wrench that I need to remove the fork's top filling caps. This:

Back to the subject at hand if you don't mind... Not had a chance to get around doing the fork seals, but I wanted to check if a lot of oil had seeped away.. Well, it looks like the fork's top nuts need a special BMW tool to be unscrewed !! Which I do not have of course... So much for an oil check.....

You'd never believe we are in the middle of the countries biggest commercial/financial shrinkage in 300 years.

That sounds a bit exagerated

Nurburg green and polise green are both listed in the paint code page on the late Phil Hawksleys 'BM bikes' web page linked from this forum or here... http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/paintcodes/greens.htm They appear to have different codes. Rob The German Polizei green is a police-specific color, has bee...

No problem ...


Might be the original POLIZEI green then !

Hello all. Was 'Police white' (code 083) the most common colour for R50/5 motorcycles or was it painted with 'Cream white/Feather white'? Were other colours used (I suppose this would depend on the country)? Kevin Your answer is in your question. Furthermore, police services had also their own colo...

Just reading the post title I thought "Gotta be Myilliard"

Got the same stuff on my W this past weekend.
But it was only a muffler deciding to live its own life and leaving the bike.. Phew!

Thank you sir

As I was afraid, the fork seals on the R100S have seen better times. The left one is leaking, the right one is "merely" wet... But they will require taken care of. Just as a preliminary look around, I lifted the rubber boots and was surprised to see no plastic dust seal. Is it the way it's supposed ...

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B000VD5O84/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A1I9GXVI6256JU&psc=1 Nothing beats this. We used to lease cars on which neither drilling nor gluing was allowed. Our shop guys used this tape to install the front grille LED heads. After four years the cars were returned, yet ...

Enfield new moped....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhffcQd ... RRnVDY12bI

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B000VD5O84/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A1I9GXVI6256JU&psc=1 Nothing beats this. We used to lease cars on which neither drilling nor gluing was allowed. Our shop guys used this tape to install the front grille LED heads. After four years the cars were returned, yet d...

Hi I didnt even know the Classic Bike Guide still existed George Sure does. And Frank still writing editorials. I used to have a subscription, but after three years the same stuff was coming back around, and the latest editor seemed to have succombed to the "custom/café/scrambler" hip trend. So now...

In the October issue of Classic Bike Guide, an interesting piece on riding a 1996 R100RT mono and the 2020 K1250RT

Just read that the Bullet is on her way out this year.
RE is to offer a limited, "Tribute" version in black, aka The Black Bullet.... 1000 bikes worldwide, including 200 for the UK

Yes it seems there is quite a bit of choice of new batteries. I will have a look at the AGM. Always good to get a recommendation. I did renew the earth cable a few years ago- still seems Ok. Didn't renew the positive one though. keef Batteries available in Europe that would fit an airhead: Nom Nom2...

Boost the bike with a car battery (without firing up the car!). If the bike starts on the button, your battery is shot. If it does not, investigate further.

I had rented a 500 a few years back, and it didn't float my boat one bit. 50s bike with 50s performance. The only way to scrap the footpegs is to fall down... The 535 was a little better, although still underpowered AFAIAC. I would love to test ride the New Interceptor (which cost about as much as t...

Ah, crap. One should never trust ones eyes when one has just woken up. :) Is "Made In Thailand" a better thing to be written on a bike. :) Well, Made In India being the alternative, why not... It is to be noted the Thai factory would cater to the Asian market only. So no big change for us if we wer...

Absolutely.

I have never killed a living animal in 40 years of driving motor vehicles, including G-Wagens in the military.

What, not even a fly or a mosquito?

Rob

Nope. They had clearly committed suicide by car