BMW R60/7 restore/build

After a few weeks of either riding the CBR or bad weather, I'm back on the case with the BMW. Took the crash bars and exhausts of today to have a look a cleaning them. Managed to snap one of the bolts in the crash bar brackets which will need drilling and tapping, uugh...  The chroming is crap so I think I'll get them powder coated black. Exhausts are stainless so should come up nice, but will take a lot of effort. While it was without it's exhausts I decided to go for a quick ride. It was LOUD, especially as I got stuck at the traffic lights in the railway tunnel near my place!  Did sound awesome though.

Had a petrol leak from the right hand carb, and then as soon as that was fixed, the same problem on the left (suspect the balancer hose increased the right carb pressure when the left one was fixed). Once the fuel tap was on petrol was just draining straight out of the overflow. I removed the float bowl, tapped the float pivot bar out with a micro screwdriver and removed the floats. Removed the float valve next and found out covered in sticky gunk and grit (I suspect that it's old fuel that was left standing) on the valve and in its seat. Cleaned the valve and used some 2000 grit to de-gunk the hole so the valve runs smoothly again. Reassembled, problem solved. Exact same problem with the other carb fixed the same.

Airbox covers, fuel balanced hose and air filter missing

Been out for a ten minute ride. Awesome!

Right hand carb looking much better, although still leaking fuel on occasion. Might need a full rebuild rather than a strip down and clean. Bike is ticking over nicely with no choke now, although that might be down to the warm weather. Got a leak in the fuel balanced hose after today's efforts but they're all perished and need replacing anyway.

Had a couple of bits turn up this week that I think I'll need for the MOT, new number plate and mirrors. The existing number plate was clearly made in the days before laser printing and advanced plastics as water had got into it and the ink had run.  I thought I was going to need the V5 doc (still waiting for the DVLA), but I was able to buy one on eBay with a disclaimer that I was not to use it for anything illegal...  I was worried that it was going to be crap, but when it turned up it was great.  5 minutes with the drill to put some mounting holes in and I was done. I also received as set of used mirrors to replace the knackered ones that came with the bike.  I only need them for an MOT (I'll get some nice ones later), so I bought some from a guy on eBay.  He described them as "Bought for an R65 but wouldn't fit around master cylinder, would probably fit an R60" - they we £10 so I figured I'd give them a go.  They're actually Japanese and have a lef...

Resolved the leaking master cylinder problem, more on that later.