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My new to me all original 1974 BMW R90S Purchased August 2022

XR75 After

1974 XR75 Before

Completed XR75

I have it’s much older brother… my latest restoration.

I was not aware that Castrol made motorcycle oil. I’ll look into that. I use Castrol in all of my dry clutch bikes, so if I can find some for my wet clutch bikes, that will work!

Castrol 20w50 is not meant for wet clutches. Put motorcycle oil in it!

And change the belts!

Ya know, I think the powder coating thing might work if you have a tire machine that doesn’t touch the outside edge of your rim, but us mere mortals that use tire spoons are gonna screw up the powder coating every time. Your tire spoon wears through the coating right on the edge of the rim and...

A year and a half later update. I’ve finally torn parts of my wing down to send some stuff out to be rechromed, which I should have done in the first place, and to try to fix these nasty rims. I spent all day today in the garage with a heat gun and some plastic scrapers to try to remove the...

I had a similar problem with a Sportster I was working on years ago. I know… about as far from a Wing as you can get, but hear me out. This thing would fire up and run fine before just FLAT dying. No sputtering, no slowly running out of fuel, just BAM. Dead. Sometimes it would fire right back...

Also, just in case, you can also purchase a small bottle of fluorescent orange paint off of eBay for the tips of your gauge needles. The devils in the details.

I used these guys on my GL1000. Top notch people. You can purchase just the faces, or you can also get new cans, new glass, new gaskets, new sealing rings, and various other items. Or you can send them your gauges and have them rebuild them for you.

Mark has shut the business down.

Wally World usually has PH UP this time of year. It’s in their pool and spa section. I didn’t use PH UP when I did my tank, I used some kind of laundry detergent if I remember correctly.

Look up a company called CMSNL and look up your particular bike. They have parts diagrams for everything on the bike and will give you part numbers. They also have quite a few hard to find parts.

That’s a nice looking restoration. I’m impressed.

From my experience, the book is dead wrong in this case. You will not be able to flex your frame enough to get the switch out. Nowhere near enough! You are going to need to almost remove the engine from the frame to get enough room to get the switch out. You will need to remove BOTH headers, ALL...

Hi George. I would think that starting a new thread with your questions might be a better idea. You would probably get more attention that way. But to answer your questions with my own opinion, real quick, I would say that you need possibly a clutch adjustment to facilitate your getting it into...

The Valvoline VR-1 20W50 racing oil that I run in my hot rod is NOT synthetic. Do you know of a VR-1 that I have yet to see?