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Welcome Alfons! Are these Hoske Replica or Epco's? Did they require re-jetting? How's the audio? I'd like some Norton peashooter sound for my /5 ...

You have added some really nice touches to your already nice bike. That red has to be one of the best all time colors. Being a Euro, does it have 40mm exhaust?
I know things varied by market, but in 79, I'm pretty sure all the US /7 1000cc models had twin discs and 40mm carbs. Were your's standard?

Very nice ride, welcome.

R90Steve wrote:I know things varied by market, but in 79, I'm pretty sure all the US /7 1000cc models had twin discs and 40mm carbs. Were your's standard?

From 78-80 BMW sold an R100T that had no fairing but was the upgraded version of the standard R100 /7. The T came w/ twin ATE discs and 40mm carbs. I had one and miss it. Perfect two-up, naked tourer.

http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/specpages/R100T.htm

Alfons, that's a beautiful machine! Welcome aboard.

Hi Al and welcome to the board!

I'm really pleased to see a new member from Germany and I agree, thats a very nice bike!

You will no doubt be getting a lot of questions about the fairing, and other hardware on your bike, so be prepared. Most of the classic hardware for Airheads is either unobtainable here in the US or only available at extremely high prices.

Where in Germany are you located? Whats it like riding there? What kind of riding interests you? Have you ever visited the US or Canada?

Once again, welcome aboard and please send me that fairing, the rear sets (Controls) and a pile of money!

Thank you very much for the warm welcome you have given me!

There has been a couple of questions on the bike:

it is a 1978 R 100/7, which at that time was sold in Germany with the double disk only. When BMW issued the /7 series in Germany in late 1976/early 1977 the R 100/7 had a single disk only and BMW got a lot of flak for that so they quickly reacted and sold the R 100/7 with the double disk only.

The R 100/7 has 38mm headers; the 40mm header were only used on the R 100Rs and from 1978 on on the R 100S. They were supposed to add some extra horse power along with the airfilter housing with 24 (?) holes, but according to many specialists here this was a mere myth.

On my bike I added Knoscher rear sets, a Knoscher single seat, Telefix clip-ons which came along with the fairing, which is a copy of the Ducati SS 750 type. The fairing was manufactured by a small Germany company (P & W), which went out of business a long time ago.

The "silencers" ( in inverted commas, because they do not really silenbce the engine) are British-made; I found them on a well-known auction platform on the web: Just where the clamps tighten them on the pipes they carry their name ("TOGA"). Their noise is very deep and throaty, just wonderful (Pulling up the throttle in a road tunnel just makes you grin!)

Whereabouts do I live? I live about 40 miles from Luxembourg and the French border, so that is right in the middle of Europe. Before we had our children I used to ride all over Europe, but due to the pressures of family and job riding has become less. These days is the occasional ride on a glorious summer Sunday morning, when I get up very early, sneak out and take the bike for a trip. I act as some sort of a tour guide fore the German branch of the Australian Ulysses Club and take them on a tour across the World War One battlefields in nearby France (you may have heard of Verdun or the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of Pershing's First Army), and once a year or every two years I join my best mate and we go on a one-week trip to the UK.
If you ever come to Europe, pop in and I can show some amazing places.

Here is another bike I am currently working on: It grew from the ruins of a wrecked R 100CS.

best wishes

Alfons

Hi Alfons ,welcome from me too!

I love the wheels on the CS ,I don't usually like the look of alloys but those are excellent . They're both beautiful machines !

Welcome Alfons, lovely machine....but I'm a little confused.

Alfons doesn't sound much like a german name and that isn't a german flag on the back of the helmet in the first picture.
Do you have something to confess...???

Yeh, Gooday Alfons! got a pic of the R75? Jeff.

electric_monk wrote: Alfons doesn't sound much like a german name and that isn't a german flag on the back of the helmet in the first picture.
Do you have something to confess...???

Hi electric_monk, I can assure you it is a German name (there are quite a few names that do sound sound as Teutonic as Hermann or others...). the Union jack on the back of my helmet - that is a long story, and there is something I have to confess: I am am Anglophile (must sound terrible in the ears of an Irishman), and ever since I went on my first bike trip to the Uk I have had a Union Jack on my helmet - ought to add a German flag, too, now that the world does not mind us being a bit patriotic again.