1974 bmw r60/6

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Year: 1974

Make: BMW

Model: R60/6

Engine Capacity: 600cc

KMS: 21KM (NOT WARRANTED)

Rego: NONE

The BMW R60/6 made its first appearance in 1974 as part of the all-new /6 family of motorcycles by the German manufacturer. These new models replaced the outgoing /5 motorcycles but shared many of their components – BMW was onto a good thing with their horizontally-opposed air-cooled engines, and being somewhat cautious by nature they tend towards incremental improvement rather than blank-slate redesigns.

The new /6 model range had 4 major versions, the R60/6, the R75/6, the R90/6, and the R90S. As a general rule, the first two digits represent engine size, and the digit after the slash is the generation. So an R60/6 is a 600cc 6-series.

By the mid-1970s BMW had been building motorcycles with air-cooled boxer-twins for 53 years. The first had been a relatively simple machine with an engine developed from a reverse-engineered Douglas motor. Over the decades that followed BMW perfected the art of the horizontally-opposed twin, and the company is now only 4 years shy of their 100 year anniversary of building the engine that would become known as the “Airhead”.The engine might have been a simple design, but it was very reliable, and many of them have survived to the modern day. All the /6 series motorcycles (and the /5 series too) have unit construction engines with a one-piece crankcase and a shaft drive to the rear hub, suspension is telescopic up front and twin shock at the rear, and the frame is not entirely dissimilar to the famous Norton Featherbed.

This bike comes from another one of our notorious collectors who decided this needs a new home. This bike has 21kms recorded on the dash but this is not warranted. This bike comes from the land of South Africa and we do have the proper paperwork for the next owner. Come in today to check out this clean example of German motorcycling history.

You can view this Motorcycle Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm. We are located at 1047 Bourke Street, Waterloo,

Buyer pays stamp duty.

$14,999

The Motorcycle is currently out of registration but can be established upon request.