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Restoration of the BMW R 80 G / S
Restoration of the BMW R 80 G / S
160 working hours at a glance
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All parts of the series “Restoration of a BMW R 80 G / S” from MOTORRAD Classic. Werner “Mini” Koch takes the original version of the Bavarian boxer enduro apart down to the last screw – and puts it back together again.
06/16/2016
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The thorough overhaul of a BMW R 80 G / S was Werner “Mini” Koch’s first boxer project.
Anyone who knows “Mini” alias Werner Koch also knows his own motorcycle models and knows: When this man announces a restoration, then it is not about maximizing originality and concours condition, but about function and individual optimization.
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However, he renovated, restored and reanimated the matt black BMW R 80 G / S, which Mini “somehow ran out of”. The history of the original meter is retold here in six chapters: engine, drive, body / carburetor / electrics, engine and carburetor adjustment, chassis and brakes as well as an overview of costs and effort.
Content
- Original driving report from MOTORRAD from 1980
- Restoration work fully documented with many pictures
- Engine overhaul, chassis processing, fine adjustment and much more
- detailed time and cost analysis
- Fine tuning: test drive and post-processing
Note: This PDF download mainly consists of articles that were published in MOTORRAD CLASSIC 07/2014 to 05/2015.
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