Part 5 BMW R100 project
I REALLY MISSED MY CALLING AS A scrap dealer. I seem to be able to build such momentum when stripping bikes, engines, cars, even houses – but said momentum falters slightly when fixing or servicing parts, then fails completely when it is time to put it all back together. Any scrapyard owners want an aged apprentice?
The two days I’d set aside for stripping my R100(R)S started badly – how the hell do you hold this thing upright? Being tight and not exactly a torch bearer of over-the-top health and safety, I found some pallets to rest the rear of the big unit on, with the centrestand doing the rest – that’d do until I got further. Oils in the final drive, gearbox and engine were drained.
Easy goals are a good way to feed confidence, so I got the rear wheel off – which is delightfully easy on a boxer, but which also shifted the weight balance and ruined my pallet/ centrestand platform and I had to
