BMW recommenced motorcycle production in December 1948 with the R24 single but it would be another 12 months before a twin-cylinder model became available again. This was the R51/2 based, as its designation suggests, on the pre-war R51. Improvements incorporated into the R51/2 included a two-way damped front fork, gearbox mainshaft damper and strengthened frame. In truth, the R51/2 was only a stopgap model to get production under way while BMW worked on something more modern. Its replacement, the R51/3, arrived in February 1951 and despite the similarity in designation had an entirely new and much neater looking engine incorporating a single, gear-driven camshaft and crankshaft-mounted generator among a host of other advances. This R51/3 was delivered new to Steinberg in Recklinghausen, Germany and first registered in the Netherlands in 1963. The machine displays a total of 77,342 kilometres on the odometer and is offered with Netherlands registration papers. Die hier angebotene R51/3 wurde 1954 an den Händler Steinberg in Recklinghausen ausgeliefert und 1963 in die Niederlande importiert. Der angezeigte Kilometerstand beträgt 77,342. Die Maschine wird mit niederländischen Zulassungspapieren versteigert.
BMW recommenced motorcycle production in December 1948 with the R24 single but it would be another 12 months before a twin-cylinder model became available again. This was the R51/2 based, as its designation suggests, on the pre-war R51. Improvements incorporated into the R51/2 included a two-way damped front fork, gearbox mainshaft damper and strengthened frame. In truth, the R51/2 was only a stopgap model to get production under way while BMW worked on something more modern. Its replacement, the R51/3, arrived in February 1951 and despite the similarity in designation had an entirely new and much neater looking engine incorporating a single, gear-driven camshaft and crankshaft-mounted generator among a host of other advances. This R51/3 was delivered new to Steinberg in Recklinghausen, Germany and first registered in the Netherlands in 1963. The machine displays a total of 77,342 kilometres on the odometer and is offered with Netherlands registration papers. Die hier angebotene R51/3 wurde 1954 an den Händler Steinberg in Recklinghausen ausgeliefert und 1963 in die Niederlande importiert. Der angezeigte Kilometerstand beträgt 77,342. Die Maschine wird mit niederländischen Zulassungspapieren versteigert.
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