BMW Airhead Twins
eBook - ePub

BMW Airhead Twins

The Complete Story

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

BMW Airhead Twins

The Complete Story

About this book

No motorcycle manufacturer is more closely associated with one type of engine than BMW: the air-cooled boxer twin or 'airhead'. It was included in BMW's very first motorcycle in 1923 and virtually every machine the company made, of every type, from radical road bike to TT winner, to land speed record holder, to 1970s style icon and even to the creation of an all-new adventure bike class with the R 80 G/S, right up to the mid-1990s. Phil West celebrates the success of the BMW airhead twin motorcycles. This book, with over 290 photographs, includes a history of the company pre- and post-War; the personalities behind the development of the bikes; profiles of each of the 'R' bikes in turn, including detailed specification guides and production numbers. These wonderful machines are regularly celebrated and now BMW itself is harking back to them with an all-new series of machines.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. CHAPTER 1 IN THE BEGINNING:THE BIRTH OF BMW
  8. CHAPTER 2 1920–1930:THE MOVE INTO MOTORCYCLES
  9. CHAPTER 3 1930–1940: BMW TAKES ON THE WORLD
  10. CHAPTER 4 1940–1949:WAR TAKES ITS TOLL
  11. CHAPTER 5 1950s: FROM BOOM TO BUST
  12. CHAPTER 6 1960s: FROM BOOM TO BERLIN
  13. CHAPTER 7 1970s: FROM SPANDAU TO SUPERBIKES
  14. CHAPTER 8 1980s: AN AGE OF ADVENTURE
  15. CHAPTER 9 1990s:THE END OF THE AIRHEADS?
  16. CHAPTER 10 EPILOGUE
  17. APPENDIX AIRHEAD PRODUCTION NUMBERS
  18. Index