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<blockquote data-quote="flatwins" data-source="post: 1850463" data-attributes="member: 5655">Andy,Here&#039;s the beginning of the rebirth of the &#039;67 R50US. Like me, the owner is an OSU grad and wanted to do the sheet metal in orange. I love my Pokes but this isn&#039;t anything i&#039;d do on a classic bike. In addition, he got the parts back from the painter and they are more copper-colored than orange. It&#039;s growing on me but I still prefer the stock colors.&nbsp;&nbsp; Chuck has been collecting parts for this bike for years. It will be a conversion like my &#039;63 and will have a &#039;74 R60/6 engine in it. The 60s motors, while cool and original, require more tinkering and expensive parts to keep them running so hence the &quot;conversion /2&quot; bikes. In 1967, BMW introduced the US models with a telescopic fork rather than the Earles fork. Chuck&#039;s &#039;67 originally had the tele fork but by the time he got it, it had been switched back to Earles. He bought the bike out of Dallas way back when as a parts machine for $500 then turned around and sold all the original drivetrain that he wasn&#039;t going to use for $600 so he has nothing in the base project. I had the frame powder coated 10 years ago since I owed him for some parts and that squared us up. There&#039;s still many hours of work ahead on this bike but all the conversion fab work and most of the pretty work is done. The electrics will be fairly straight forward but he won&#039;t like it when I send him the bill for the all the stuff I&#039;ll need to finish those. ;-)[Broken External Image]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="flatwins, post: 1850463, member: 5655"] Andy, Here's the beginning of the rebirth of the '67 R50US. Like me, the owner is an OSU grad and wanted to do the sheet metal in orange. I love my Pokes but this isn't anything i'd do on a classic bike. In addition, he got the parts back from the painter and they are more copper-colored than orange. It's growing on me but I still prefer the stock colors. Chuck has been collecting parts for this bike for years. It will be a conversion like my '63 and will have a '74 R60/6 engine in it. The 60s motors, while cool and original, require more tinkering and expensive parts to keep them running so hence the "conversion /2" bikes. In 1967, BMW introduced the US models with a telescopic fork rather than the Earles fork. Chuck's '67 originally had the tele fork but by the time he got it, it had been switched back to Earles. He bought the bike out of Dallas way back when as a parts machine for $500 then turned around and sold all the original drivetrain that he wasn't going to use for $600 so he has nothing in the base project. I had the frame powder coated 10 years ago since I owed him for some parts and that squared us up. There's still many hours of work ahead on this bike but all the conversion fab work and most of the pretty work is done. The electrics will be fairly straight forward but he won't like it when I send him the bill for the all the stuff I'll need to finish those. ;-) [b][Broken External Image][/b] [/QUOTE]

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