There’s a lot of fanfare this yr celebrating the 100 yr anniversary of the BMW bike. The museum in Munich has an incredible show, and right here within the U.S. the BMWCCA Basis Museum in Spartanburg, North Carolina has one opening on Could 19th that I will likely be protecting in particular person this week.
On account of this, I assumed it could be acceptable to function an essential BMW being provided on Classiccars.com. There are at the moment quite a lot of nice BMW bikes on our web site and I selected to concentrate on a model that marked the post-war revival of BMW as a motorbike producer, the BMW R51/3.
The R51/3 was the second post-war BMW twin cylinder bike the corporate provided, and the primary true submit conflict design because the bike that proceeded it was in essence a pre-war design. The brand new R51/2 had quite a lot of options that made the bike much more dependable than the legendary dependable bikes that they had constructed earlier than together with a wholly new and far cleaner wanting engine design that featured a single, gear-driven camshaft and crankshaft-mounted generator.
The Choose of the Day is a 1953 BMW R51/3 that’s being provided by a supplier in St. Louis, Missouri.
Based on the vendor, this R51/3 is a beautiful instance that (most significantly) is an identical numbers bike, with the engine and body numbers being the identical.
In addition they state that this bike is in largely unrestored situation, because it has spent a lot of its life in a personal assortment. They add that the bike is fantastically completed in its authentic livery of black with cream pinstripes, and that it shows a heat and pleasing patina. The shut stating that whereas this bike runs and rides experience effectively, it ought to get some extra sorting could also be wanted earlier than embarking on longer rides on account of it being in a museum for therefore lengthy.
Early submit conflict BMW bikes are a number of the best to personal and keep classic bikes on the earth and are as good to experience as they’re to take a look at. If you happen to like the thought of a classic bike and don’t need the trouble of a British or Italian one your best option is to get an outdated BMW like this one.
Early BMW bikes like this one are getting harder to search out at the moment and this one with an asking value of solely $28,500 represents worth.
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