crazydrummerdude
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Sweet bike.
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Diary of a Barn Queen
- Thread starter HankPfister
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HankPfister
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Update: Title
The Barn Queen has been road worthy for quite a while now, and just hit 2000 miles since getting her going!
All those miles haven't been trouble free, but the glitches have been few, and have been taken care of. She is running fine now. I'm very happy with it. The best news is that as of today, she is also LEGAL I was issued a Virginia Title, registration and tags. The tag, "TOASTR" I actually transfered from my other /5, a 1973 Toaster with a Dnepr sidecar attached. I'm putting an antique vehicle tag on it. I've been running the Barn Queen on the '73 Toaster's tag and registration so far.
Working on a carb problem at Willville Motorcycle Camp:
I dumped the 2 int 1 exhaust for an old set of stock pipes:
To obtain a Virginia Title, I looked on line and found Broadway Title Service in Birmingham, AL. For $100 fee, they "sell" me my bike with an Alabama bill of sale, and DMV registration. Alabama does not title motorcycles that were built before 1975. Today I took my bill of sale and AL registration to my local DMV. The young lady who helped didn't quite know what to do, but she figured it out. She did not know that BMW made motorcycles! How often have we heard that? And she's been working the window at DMV for 3 years.
So I guess that is the final chapter in this rebuild job.
The Barn Queen has been road worthy for quite a while now, and just hit 2000 miles since getting her going!
All those miles haven't been trouble free, but the glitches have been few, and have been taken care of. She is running fine now. I'm very happy with it. The best news is that as of today, she is also LEGAL I was issued a Virginia Title, registration and tags. The tag, "TOASTR" I actually transfered from my other /5, a 1973 Toaster with a Dnepr sidecar attached. I'm putting an antique vehicle tag on it. I've been running the Barn Queen on the '73 Toaster's tag and registration so far.
Working on a carb problem at Willville Motorcycle Camp:
I dumped the 2 int 1 exhaust for an old set of stock pipes:
To obtain a Virginia Title, I looked on line and found Broadway Title Service in Birmingham, AL. For $100 fee, they "sell" me my bike with an Alabama bill of sale, and DMV registration. Alabama does not title motorcycles that were built before 1975. Today I took my bill of sale and AL registration to my local DMV. The young lady who helped didn't quite know what to do, but she figured it out. She did not know that BMW made motorcycles! How often have we heard that? And she's been working the window at DMV for 3 years.
So I guess that is the final chapter in this rebuild job.
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DS74BMW
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Wow, Hank... a fascinating story, and great pics to compliment it! I have not followed the progress, as I am a new member, so I read from first to last post.
What a wonderful job you did. I would like to do the same to my '74 R60, although mine is not nearly as "crusty" as yours started out with... but just the fact you resurrected the bike has my hat off to you!
Richard
What a wonderful job you did. I would like to do the same to my '74 R60, although mine is not nearly as "crusty" as yours started out with... but just the fact you resurrected the bike has my hat off to you!
Richard
