Austin Shackles

On or around Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:45:54 +0100, "Steve Parry"
<k100rs_1990@hotmail.nospam.com> enlightened us thusly:

> My uncle has a 1959 R69 BMW with an 8 gallon (!) touring fuel tank.
>
>Its all in excellent condition any ideas what it would be worth nowadays?
>
>He's been the owner of it since about 1966.

would that be an Earles-fork type one?

not sure. Dependant on condition, I'd think. A mint one might be worth a
bit for unusual-value, these days, but if it's not good, it'd take a fair
amount of pennies to get right.

the R69S was quite well thought of in its day, but yours sounds like it
isn't an S.

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Austin Shackles

On or around Fri, 4 Jul 2003 10:49:12 +0100, "Steve Parry"
<k100rs_1990@hotmail.nospam.com> enlightened us thusly:

>Austin Shackles wrote:
>> On or around Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:45:54 +0100, "Steve Parry"
>> <k100rs_1990@hotmail.nospam.com> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>> My uncle has a 1959 R69 BMW with an 8 gallon (!) touring fuel tank.
>>>
>>> Its all in excellent condition any ideas what it would be worth
>>> nowadays?
>>>
>>> He's been the owner of it since about 1966.
>>
>> would that be an Earles-fork type one?
>>
>> not sure. Dependant on condition, I'd think. A mint one might be
>> worth a bit for unusual-value, these days, but if it's not good, it'd
>> take a fair amount of pennies to get right.
>>
>> the R69S was quite well thought of in its day, but yours sounds like
>> it isn't an S.
>
>no, it is an R69 not an R69S and yes it is the earles fork one, and the condition is very very
>good. I'll see if I can find a pic of it.

in that case, it might be worth summat. 's a bit niche-market, though, not
many folk want 'em. Is it a plunger rear, as well? Personally, I thought
they were nice-looking bikes, and the TLS front brake got very good reports
on the R69S when that was new. Identical brake to my R60/6, in fact, and
that's not bad either if you bother to maintain it. Not up to modern disc
standards, of course, but reputed to be as good as the disc fitted to the /7
model.


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