Here is a Video of Max BMW restoring a type R60/2.

[beemerdons]

In March of 1969 I bought my very first BMW Motorcycle, a 1966 R60/2, from my off the base German Landlord when stationed at Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany while in the United States Army.  

This video show's Max BMW restoring my old same type model MC. Ach du Lieber, I wish I had never sold my beloved Dieter; Dieter was a perfect Motorrad. Deutschland uber Alles! I believe dcarver has one of these beauties in his garage, The Lucky Bastard!!! I'd sell off my illegitimate bastard son SkooterG, to get my mitts on mein Dieter again! Another R/2 is on my bucket list!

 

[Fred W]

Now Don... I know how nostalgia can fog your vision up pretty badly, but have you forgotten just how miserably klunky those old beemer transmissions and clutches are? And how anemic those old boxer engines were? Yes, they definitely have character. Which is what led me to find and buy a /5 a while back. That was a very cool bike (to look at) and kind'a neat to ride for a while. Very old school in a way that no "Jap" bike ever was. But honestly, I can not tell a lie. The bike handled well enough but was about as exciting as a wet dish rag. I cleaned mine up, sold it for what I had into it, and moved on to a more modern bike that would actually ride well.

My '94 R1100RS oilhead was light years better than the old slash 5 in every category, and the /5 was supposed to be miraculously more modern than the old hack propellers of post war Germany known as the /2.

 

[beemerdons]

Now Don... I know how nostalgia can fog your vision up pretty badly, but have you forgotten just how miserably klunky those old beemer transmissions and clutches are? And how anemic those old boxer engines were? Yes, they definitely have character. Which is what led me to find and buy a /5 a while back. That was a very cool bike (to look at) and kind'a neat to ride for a while. Very old school in a way that no "Jap" bike ever was. But honestly, I can not tell a lie. The bike handled well enough but was about as exciting as a wet dish rag. I cleaned mine up, sold it for what I had into it, and moved on to a more modern bike that would actually ride well.

My '94 R1100RS oilhead was light years better than the old slash 5 in every category, and the /5 was supposed to be miraculously more modern than the old hack propellers of post war Germany known as the /2.

Hear you loud and clear Fred, those /2 Beemer trannys were widely known as "rock crushers" and those 30 ponies would barely get me up and over the Alps back in '69; even though back in those Army soldier days I had a body like a "Greek God", now I've a body like a "God Damn Greek"! I'm 50 pounds heavier at 62, than at 22 then.

My /2 acquisition will only be for Sunday putt around rides, I remember only too well how anemic the brakes were; but much better than my three Brit bikes ever were!