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    Apr 04, 2020 4 minutes

    BMW AIRHEAD TWINS by Phil West

    Part of Crowood’s ‘The Complete Story’ series, this hardback / ebook is dedicated to BMW’s iconic air-cooled horizontally opposed twins. The chronological chapters start with the birth of BMW; explain how the marque moved into motorcycles in the early 1920s; document the war years then how BMW went from boom to bust to Berlin; consider the superbikes of the 1970s, the age of adventure in the 1980s, and concludes the story with the end of the airheads.

    Includes almost 300 photos, details of the personalities behind the development of the bikes, profiles of each of the R

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