bob_menton
Oct 3rd, 2005, 8:11 pm
Who owns the oldest Beemer on the list?
I know it's not mine - I have a 1969 R60US boxer (in mint original condition, black, with 30K miles) - a /2 by any other name (old /2 engine, old frame, 6.5 gal. "sport" gas tank, bar end directionals, stainless exhaust, Denfeld solo riders seat & pillion pad, steel fenders, 6 volt magneto ignition, etc.), but my bike has the telescopic forks that came on the first /5 instead of the Earles leading link front forks. Owned it since 1973. Runs as good as it looks - starts on the first kick.
In true Teutonic tradition, the frame of my R60US is missing the sidecar lugs. You can just hear the Deutschland engineers saying, "If you vant a sidecar, you don't vant telescopic forks" (Earles forks are adjustable for a sidecar; telescopic forks are not).
So who's got the oldest Beemer?
- Bob
I know it's not mine - I have a 1969 R60US boxer (in mint original condition, black, with 30K miles) - a /2 by any other name (old /2 engine, old frame, 6.5 gal. "sport" gas tank, bar end directionals, stainless exhaust, Denfeld solo riders seat & pillion pad, steel fenders, 6 volt magneto ignition, etc.), but my bike has the telescopic forks that came on the first /5 instead of the Earles leading link front forks. Owned it since 1973. Runs as good as it looks - starts on the first kick.
In true Teutonic tradition, the frame of my R60US is missing the sidecar lugs. You can just hear the Deutschland engineers saying, "If you vant a sidecar, you don't vant telescopic forks" (Earles forks are adjustable for a sidecar; telescopic forks are not).
So who's got the oldest Beemer?
- Bob