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The best R12 in the world From today on I start a series of reports on a bundle of vintage purchases from a trader in Belgium. Each BMW vintage bike was ...
Hi All, Regarding this so called post war military Dutch brass plate, this has no military connection whatsoever! these plates are/were very common before and...
Hi Alex, many thanks for the input, sheding a light on the mystery of the brassplate. As startup exception, the second issue of the story will follow today...
The easiest way how to set up serials usually is the VIN plate of what there are many repro versions. The R12 even finds unlikely ones. Here the maker choosed...
Before we look to the frame in detail, we glance fleetingly at the whole bike. This is important to understand the story of the purchase. Unless we have an...
No, there is no trick, you can have a look at the left side of the engine. Here we go with the picture, there is nothing that needs to be hidden: "15b.jpg"...
You see: patience and while donīt take long. Now we go on with the frame of the best BMW R12 in the world, stripped down already. "frame01.jpg" We start from...
4. The tank It represents the concept of the "restoration" like in a nutshell. Subject of care only was what is visible to the spectator from some distance....
Today we treat two minor topics of the best R12 in the world from the chain-production of inventionbikes. The BMW emblem is an isolated topic as well as the...
7. Motor exterior view Even at first sight fishy traits occur here by compare to the genuine production state. But especially the postwar R35 of this...
Hi guys, I recently bought a later model infantry cart (the one without the extensive outer cage) and have got the type plate to go on it. Does anyone know the...
Well, after 7 years of collecting wartime bike photos and 4 years of collecting the data from kradrider, my computer went bang and my hard drive froze and i...
It is still possible to recover the data from your old hard drive. It won't be terribly expensive, but it isn't free either. Check with your local computer...
You'll possibly find that it's only the operating system (xp, windows 2000 etc) thats become corrupt therefore will not boot up. If you can find somebody local...
I wish it was like that. Couple of months ago I had the same problem. My HD started to make funny noises and before I could do anything it went Kaputt. I took...
The hard disk was the problem. Mechanical failure! It is with an expert now who is trying to recover any data he can, but its not looking good. Richard From:...
For those, who want to see the photos independently from their mail delivery, I will host them over web now. Just add the following path to each given filename...
Hi Dave ,I repaired an infantry cart for Glenn a few years ago and managed to 'save' a panel with type numbers and date code. These were stamped into the...
Also this text here now grows as a textfile along with the storage of fotos: http://geschichte.cjb.cc/d2b/best-r12/best-r12.txt Upshot Magneto The device...
10. Trading: where do inventionbikes go to? A clue is given by the export company, exclusively used for the shipments. It is the same like it was before the...
I am still desperatly searching for an R12 engine case ( matching halves). I have Brian here on the List looking in Poland for me and so far we are not having...
13. A trip to the trader To celebrate our lucky number here, the owner of the best R12 in the world invites us to a trip with the time-warp machine, he also...
Dear Mike: What's wrong with your engine cases? Would you like me to have the people that saved both my R51 and R17 cases take a look at your cases? Sincerely ...
Ted, Last I spoke to Vech, the top and bottom case halves for Mike's case were out of alignment with each other by about 1/16 of an inch-minimum. We found this...
Dear Dietmar: You're making me wonder about my "Best R62 in the world". I think I'll open up the rebuilt engine, gearbox and final drive and see how good their...
