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How To Restore Your BMW Twin: 1955-1985 (Motorbooks Workshop) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mick Walker
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
Buy Used: $59.98
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1000125
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0760322627
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.28775
EAN: 9780760322628
ASIN: 0760322627
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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Condition: New softcover, minor shelf wear, a very good copy.
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Product Description
This is a repackaging of an out-of-print Osprey title (originally titled BMW Twins Restoration Guide: All BMW Flat Twins, 1955-1985). It provides invaluable in-depth coverage of these extremely popular BMWs. These bikes are sought out worldwide and are restored and ridden by enthusiasts who love their heritage as well as their look, sound, and feel on the road. Restorers will welcome the renewed access to the valuable information in this book. It includes coverage of the many engineering redesigns, technical modifications, and restyling exercises carried out on the horizontally-opposed twin-cylinder BMW machines over a 30-year period.
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 There are much better alternatives November 3, 2008
Christopher Earle (Seattle, WA United States)
In my BMW restoration efforts, I've built up quite a library of useful references. This is not one of them. The writing style is difficult, all in a pedantic passive tense, tending to wander off to irrelevancies while totally omitting discussion of important topics. I read this book at about the same time I read Zimmerman and Hacket's "How to Restore Your Motorcycle," another book in the Motorbooks series, and a much better guide to restoration. You see, in the effort to restore a vintage BMW, most of the little details that you need can be found online in the many user forums devoted to the subject. What a book can give you, and what you won't easily find online, is the big picture - what bikes are good candidates for restoration, how to set up a workshop, what tools you must have vs. what you shop out, how to organize the whole project. Walker's treatment of these subjects is inadequate, compared to Zimmerman and Hackett's. Also, the bulk of Walker's book is a discussion of various technical systems of the bike. It repeats, in a scanty fashion, information that is already in the service, parts, and related technical manuals that you will need to get anyway in order to restore your BMW. If you feel you must buy an expensive out-of-print manual on BMW restoration, the BEST book, hands down, is Slabon's "How to Restore Your BMW Motorcycle." Slabon only covers models thru the /2 series, but even if you have a later airhead, it's far superior to Walker's book in all respects.
 Very Good! March 16, 2007
Isis L. Primus (Scottsdale, AZ USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was another purchase for my husband. That is a BMW Motorcyclist, he will always say never can have enough books on these great bikes!
Good information.
BMW Restoration Book Comment October 8, 2005
F. Falsini (Italy)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
It does not give technical hints but just a detailed and photographic description of different BMW Bike Models.
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