Now here's something beautiful...

[Dallara]

Stumbled across this a bit ago..; A gorgeous 1959 BMW R-50 owned by a fellow named Craig Howell:


http://www.thecreeper.net/r50/images/1DSC08185.jpg

http://www.thecreeper.net/r50/images/2DSC08209.jpg

http://www.thecreeper.net/r50/images/6DSC08220.jpg

http://www.thecreeper.net/r50/images/DSC08224.jpg


Absolutely stunning!

You can see many more pictures fo the bike, and get some more information about it at:

http://www.thecreeper.net/r50/

Enjoy!

Allan (Dallara)

[DJ Down Under]

Very nice Allan...that's the second best old beemer that I've ever seen.

The best was at the BMW head office....here's a few pics of it.

DJ

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~djp1/mypic1839.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~djp1/mypic1840.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~djp1/mypic1841.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~djp1/mypic1842.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~djp1/mypic1843.JPG

[mnnden]

Dallara, Stunning is right!! And in "Dover White" Rare indeed! A true work of Art.
Here are a couple of pic's of a 1964 R27 my son picked up. Den
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/991455/r274.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/991455/dadr27.jpg

[rivi]

Another visually appealing motorbike - 1938 PMZ A 750

The PMZ 750 (Podolsk Machinery Zavod) has been the topmodel of whatever bike has been produced in Russia ever and has only been produced for a period of two years with a number of about 1000 examples made. As far as the German motorbike magazine "Motorrad Classic" has stated in their February 1999 article about this make, no more than 30 have survived in the USSR, all the others have gone lost during WWII, or have been scrapped because of lack of spares. Because of tight USSR regulations those bikes have never been exported outside Russia and have merely been used by the Russian Army and Moscow and St. Petersburg Police. Nowadays the Russian law still forbids that bikes like this can get exported, this all because of their very strict inheritance laws. As history tells, this has been the only Russian bike which was solely of Russian design, but inevetably there are influences of others, like the Indian styled engine and the BMW R11/16 style front-forks and frame.

http://i16.ebayimg.com/01/i/05/c6/03/2c_1.JPG
http://i7.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/c6/68/57_1.JPG
http://i20.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/c6/7b/32_1.JPG
http://i4.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/c6/4d/a8_1.JPG
http://i7.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/c6/66/7c_1.JPG
http://i22.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/cc/6b/6a_1.JPG