The legend continues: not only as single occurance in cheating eBay auctions but as standard sale on custom order: "Scooter Bob" in West Virginia has them in...
Gerard, the point in your issue with Klomp finally was, that what you got at the price could have been worse, and what also is purchased without hesitation -...
Nice, very nice looking machine. Oh how i love the Chang wangs.... Mike Dunn Vintage German Motorcycles www.vintagegermanmotorcycles.com Jun 1, 2009 10:40:50...
I think these are exclusively used by the Taliban in afghanistan. when quality must come in last place ... From: divoker <divoker@...> Subject: [KRADRIDER]...
Neil, They are all the same thing. It doesnt matter if it says KS600, K500,K800. Basically the little brass numbers on all of the wires are the same on all...
Mike, great news, i suspected that was the case. i'll be in touch Neil ... From: Mike Dunn <m.mdunn@...> Subject: Re: [KRADRIDER] Wiring Harness To:...
The sad thing is some idiot will have a bike like that and try to pass it of as a real BMW R71. I see it all the time in the reenacting community. ... From:...
... or how to screw up on own mistake. The color on the right of the sample part - R12 lower fork tubes - obviously is DAK first tropical scheme from 1941,...
I have a friend who bought one of Scooterbob's CJs! The bikes are junk indeed! Scooterbob doesnt live up to anything he claims on his website. My friends bike...
Revised and comprehended: http://histor.ws/bmwr12/eng/resta-11.htm As oldest source of the mistake in DAK color representation I found toy-kit producer...
... Hoho, why not? Always enjoying the thrill of such occurances, I gave BobĀ“s presentation some check. What he says is, that the bikes become finished in...
Dietmar a while back I posted a pair of Binos I was restoring and had matched the original DAK paint without having it mixed I was able to come up with Testors...
Ā Dietmar, The link to scooter Bob's site was most enjoyable the mix of chrome, flat military like paint, alien looking lighting equipment, and the amazing...
Kenan Sofuoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) emerged the winner from the thrilling final lap of a race-long battle between four riders and three different makes:...
Joe, what you sent as bino paint sample is perfect. I did not go for this producer as the correct DAK color is already present on market with standard RAL...
What are the principal differences between the R71 & the R12? Both appear to my untrained eye to be 750cc SV boxer twins and were both in production at the...
That's really boiling it down, but it's more complicated than that. The R12 and R71 are 750 side valves, but the motors are completely different designs. Same...
Hello Gerard, In addition to Darryl's comments, the R71 was not a failure, and the Germans did not give it to the Russians. The Russians acquired the design by...
Oh I thought the Germans gave the Russians the tooling and rights to produce the R71 in exchange for being able to train their pilots deep inside Russia out of...
Gerard, I heard this same idea before. I looked up an English translation of the agreement and could find nothing related to such an exchange. There are...
In both cases, either the Stockholm embassy story, or the contract version, there till now is nothing, that makes a provable source on the R71 Soviet story....
Hi Dietmar, Consider that Germany had invaded the Sowiet Union den 22en Juni, 1941, before BMW had concluded production of the R71. It is too much of a leap...
Another question, why the production of both the R71 and the R61. The bikes are so close, was there really a need for two side valve, flat head bikes only 4...
Hi Richard, all these things are no subjects of belief. That first of all is a simple thing of facts. What exactly happened with a tiny detail like sort of a...
Hello Dietmar, When the German Army invaded the Soviet Union, the R71 (and 61, 51 and 66) was still in production. Why would BMW give up their tooling for this...
Hello Richard, I als heard of the alleged tool turnover, but this almost for sure is not likely. Knowing that the Soviets stole BMW tools at Eisenach in 1945...
I think the R71 was conceived more as an R12 replacement for the military than as a civilian bike, but in any case a 750 is a better sidecar tug than a 600....
