Am I the only one who spotted the Airhead lurking on the floor under the large wirebrush grinder? Looks like a /6, like the R60/6 I used to have. Do you restore them TOO?!
Man, you got an Eagle eye!, LOL!
That belongs to a 1976 BMW R90S...otherwise known as an airhead or boxer engine scooter.
You ain't gonna believe this, but that bike was found in a shed up north where it had been sitting since 1985...7K miles on the clock.....A peek in the gas tank revealed brite bare metal...I pulled one carb bowl and it was spotlees, So I poured a little gas in it and let it gravity prime the bowls, then dropped my lawn mower battery in....it fired on the first attempt and settled down into that well known BMW boxer idle.
It's a '76, bone stock, and rare metalic green with flawless paint-the last year they hand painted the pinstripes.
Is it mine?...Nope, but I'm storing it for a friend...I'm certain he would sell it to me for maybe 2K...he owes me bigtime if I ever chose to collect.
I've already gone thru it from top to bottom and can't find anything wrong with it except it is missing the headlight bulb and chrome trim ring...which I found both NOS for less than a hundred bucks.
Good eye, Mister!
Edited to add a little more history on the bike:
It was bought new by my bud's uncle...The Uncle added a fairing that required he relocate the headlight bulb and trim ring into the fairing.....not long after adding the sport fairing, he had minor accident that damaged only the fairing...then he became terminally ill and the bike sat in his shed until and after he died in '85...last year, the family finally got together and traveled to the estate to clean it out/sort it all out.....in the sorting, family decided to give the bike to my buddy cause he was the only one in the family that rode motorcyles.
It's true rare find...I'm into Harleys, but this one got under my skin
