BMW Motorcycles Print - 1960 1961 - R69 R60 - Sidecar Racing - Wilhelm Noll - The Legendary 1955 Streamline Sidecar Racing Rig

Treasures from THE VINTAGE & ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 14, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

You think of the R series BMW motorcycles, especially the vintage ones, as sturdy and always impossibly handsome two wheeled transport for the discerning lady or gentleman. Steadfast, reliable and just an all around class rig, they were and are the kind of bikes that are a joy to run, and always elicit a subtle smile and nod of respect from every other bike on the road.

That said, I personally don't think of them as racing bikes, but there was a time in the 1950s when the BMW two cylinder flat twin engine was THE powerhouse in all the winning sidecar racers. I used to have a mid 70s R90/6 with a surprisingly classic looking Czech sidecar, but as I didn't have a friend willing to behave like a monkey off his meds, I didn't race it. Well, not much...

This wonderful image features the 1960 R series with a twist. The space rig in the background is Wilhelm Noll's amazing 1955 500cc sidecar racer, still such a superstar on the international stage that the clear implication was that you could feel like Noll while roaring along country roads in your production model R.

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