Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Found a 1950 BMW, stored in cosmoline still. Was owned by French Army. Still working on my wife over the bike thing. jh >>For my 48th birthday this year, I purchased a 1976 R75/6 BMW Airhead. Rode >>it 600 miles to go camping with my parents. Boxer engine, clunky >>shifter,,very BMW. jh > >Young man; > >I took my 1974 R75/6 to London and Berlin last year. When changing gears, >try to do it in two steps with a short pause in the middle, and do not pull >the clutch completely, just one third of the way suffices, that makes >changing gears less clunky. And if you are good at it, just ease the >throttle a bit when changing up, there is no need to use the clutch. >Changing down is another story... > >(All this came very handy as the bowden cable for the clutch broke in West >London and the garage with spare cables in stock was in the East End. Got >immediate and excellent service there just because the mechanics mother >was Swedish!) > >Which BMW model will you get as your second bike? > >And to the person who started this thread: BMW boxers are great for >tinkers, and parts are easily available for 25 year old machines. > >-- >christer almqvist >eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 >14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58 > > >