A cylinder will take you almost anywhere.

They do not make bikes like that today it is a working classic you will get some good looks, and comments when you ring it on the road first class job ,ride safe it is good for another 100000 miles with continued maintenance and looking after

I HAD A 1951 BMW R25 SO RELIABLE I LOVED IT.

The R25 was my second bike, 60 years ago. It was well used by the time I got it. The generator failed, couldn't afford a new one, so I ran total loss from the battery and charged it at nights. It handled horribly but was more fun than most of my later rides. The sound was instantly familiar. Thanks for the great video.

My first motorcycle, I also rebuilt this engine, but that was in the 90s, when I was young and thought I was immortal.

Very Impressive. Well done.

Well done. Do you get your spare parts directly in Canada?

A very impressive video . I bend the knee to the Expertise

I think this is the first time I have seen a rebuild of a BMW or really much about them but the design is impressive. Great job restoring what looks like a mechanical work of art.

Very professional job & clean work shop. This is the bike I❤ to have. Have U thought modifying cam drive with gears? This the only weak part Beemer has. Also U can use spoke tension gauge for proper spoke tension. Thanks 4 the Video. Greeting from Australia. 😂

Maravilloso trabajo 🎉🎉🎉

Why the piss and moan presentation when this is all about restoration efforts...I advise more educational efforts as opposed to denigrating comments. Nice work, effort, etc. Of course I subscribed, who doesn't want to watch a real craftsman work?

With near infinite money and a lot of time, you can do great things!

If I were your dad, I would have fainted. Outstanding.

What a beauty! Congratulations!

How do you know if the frame is still good? Like micro fractures and biddle metals?

Nice project, a great little bike to preserve. I like your no BS style.. Subscribed !

Am so amazed that I do no know what so say - so wonderful!

I tried the same many years ago with a 1969 75/5. And failed. Had to sell it to a collector/specialist in bavaria. You did a fantastic job job. Greetings from Germany

I tried the same many years ago with a 1969 75/5. And failed. Had to sell it to a collector/specialist in bavaria. You did a fantastic job job. Greetings from Germany

You, sir, are an artiste!

That stand is .. THE BUSINESS !!

Yikes !! Sorry to hear about the worn gears & haphazard prior "maintenance" there.. Rock on ! Love the content. Cheers from Wisconsin

Great vid. Love pre 1970 BMWs

Excellent video Andreas. I'm sorry about the damage to the gears. But how about that brazing job! Looking forward to your next video to see progress on this wonderful old bike (I'm two years older). So impressed with your skills. Cheers, Peter.

Seems like the water coming from the power washer would dilute the slurry mixture percentage. Most videos I see recommend a 25% media to water. Did you increase this percentage to adjust for the extra water through the pressure washer? Thanks

I will follow this project with interest from Italy. Here in Europe the 5 was very famous (she just came back as an electric) and I had two of them. But does that one really have a/c???

I was the proud owner of a R50/5 in the 70s. The previous owner’s son sold it to me while the owner was in Germany picking up a newer, bigger, fancier BMW bike. I heard later that the father wished he still had the R/50. It was a beautiful cruiser and, unlike this R/60, had beautiful, deep chrome plates on the tank where this example had rubber. Sold it a short time later because I needed something that could tow a sailboat.

❤ thank you dear

I’m enjoying your journey with this machine, thanks for some interesting videos. I remember the 250 BMW when it was more or less ‘current’, but they were not common in UK then. We briefly had a BMW Isetta ‘bubble-car’, which I think used the same engine (and transmission?), but with engine enlarged to 300cc. I wonder which vehicle would be the more collectible these days. I’d certainly rather have the bike! Good luck with your work! Les 🇬🇧

Good Video. The gear box is classic BMW with the same issue that my R90/6 ! For the frame an other parts, I see a lot of similarity with my Peogeot from 1957

Looking forward to seeing the finished bike.

Always loved my gold 60/5 from 1973 😥

@22:10 the exhaust finned nut is not there, had to take the pipe off to put it in 😆

There are two /2s in the garage, a '60 conversion [/5 750] and a '66 that are happy your channel exists.

I was interested to see the gear that had been brazed as a repair. Many years ago I was a welder for a lumber company, working in their fleet garage. They had a very old and specialized fork lift that utilized a chain and sprocket design for the lift, the sprocket was huge, like 2’ across and the teeth were very worn down. The sprocket was no longer available so I built up all the teeth with a special alloy high strength brazing rod and then used hand files to re shape the teeth. It was pretty primitive but that sprocket outlasted me at that lumber company! 😉

Salis in the Netherlands should carry a lot of those parts

Your work is beyond good, I think you are superior to even a factory team putting together this bike! Where did you learn all this, were you a motorcycle mechanic in your youth? But you are young anyway, so you must be a self taught man at this! Please let us all know how you managed to learn these restoration skills so well!

Are you going to keep the original paintwork?

If you have a dry clutch, You can insure all bearings seals chains cams last FOREVER when you also add tungsten disulfide powder to the assembly lube on these special needs parts. And you can also add it to oils. The clutch should never get tungsten disulfide on it, or just small small amounts, but it will revive the metal on metal wear on the rest of the engine. It is like graphite powder you would use on locks, but it actually never degrades, and its safe on steel engine parts and oil pumps. The seals are also kept in a zero wear state. This is so important. There is also very low blowback chance on the piston and ring area because the tungsten disulphide particles work in between the rings keeping them free, but it also keeps them from wearing and eventually bouncing in tolerances that shouldnt develop. You also lower cylinder wear by maybe a factor of ten, It also does the same with keeping chains wear free on all surfaces, so you also get less metal in the engine, low chain stretch, low friction, and low maintenance. On brand new bikes with dry clutches (there arent many) you can increase engine life 10 fold and probably only have to do the highest reccomended oil change interval. No valve adjustments! No chain tensioning! No leaky seals, because the particles protect the shaft and seal surface and embeds into the rubber and then shields with a microscopic extremely durable seal. The stuff is like graphite, but it works for basically forever, but again, not good for wet clutches. It would be great to have dry clutches on dirt bikes and smaller road bikes where performance is not reallly neeeded, but mpg and simple maintenance is! I like the idea of air cooled better, becuase I think clutch matieral in the oil is absolutely abhorrent Its probably some scam, If dry clutches are done correctly, as you see in MANY actually the MAJORITY of much more powerful and heavy cars, it works best that way, and if the transmission were in the engine housing, and the dry clutch was outside and accessible and all you had to do was run a driveshaft from the enginetranny block, it would be the absolute simplest and best solution. Running the same oil, and keeping gear losses lowest, weight losses lowest, maintenance simple, all it needs is an attached gearcase compartment not too far from the eninge to run a power transfer gear. UGH the eingineers have gotten it wrong for so many years. Germany and russia did smart things like what i just mentioned but years ago, now industry is a slut for unmaintainable landfill garbage. How!?

Good video, excellent content. Oh yes, restoring any vehicle: it ends up costing twice as much, and takes twice as long, as initially estimated.

I see you putting it work, good job on these awesome relics! Learned a thing or two, where did you learn to work on these beauties?

Awesome video! I am really enjoying this series. It's going to so cool when it's finished. Best!

Looks like you're going to have _way_ more fun with this rebuild than the R60/5 😁 Seriously, I admire the brazed tooth replacement but dang! The way the rest of the components were brutalized is scary! ☹Good luck on the gears and bearings 🤞As an aside, I rebuilt the gearbox on a '69 Fiat 124 Spyder and aside from gaskets and synchros, I was able to source the bearings _and_ gears from non-Fiat industrial suppliers. Turns out those parts were industry standard sizes so, I got lucky. You gotta restore that dealer plaque as well 😉

Brilliant as usual! In the 90's I owned and rode a 1966 R60/2, sold it after five years knowing it needed a tear down and lacking your skills reluctantly let it go. Now I'm enjoying your journey!

I have every faith that yule do an amazing job on this poor old bike Andreus🤗

I'm really enjoying this series.

Good video! I'm finishing an R25 as well. I sent you an email, I have some of the parts you will need.

Gotta love old bmw’s

spectacular work! stay warm buddy!!!