Talk:BMW R60/2

small stuff

"Veteran - officially a car made up to and including December 1918

Vintage - officially a car made between 1919 and 1930. Although the term is often used to describe any car made before World War 2.

Classic - generally any car that is no longer in production that is still popular. For classic car events organised by the Motor Sports Association (MSA) eligibility is set at 20 years. Generally this term is applied to cars from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Modern Classics - recently a number of cars are being referred to as modern classics. These tend to be iconic cars from some of the classic marques that people believe stand out enough to be classics. Examples include: Ferarri Enzo; Jaguar XK8R; Aston Martin DB9."

So the R60 to R69 are "classic", not vintage. What is vintage doesn't change, but what is "collectible" does.

For typical wiki format, that first sentence of your intro should be up top, above all headings, as a short explanation of what the article is about..

and then the motorcycle is reassembled hewing as much as possible to the original design Where you've got 'hewing', shouldn't that be adhering or keeping?

Other people would probably suggest other things. The R69S was considered by some to be the last "real" BMW motorcycle, and the best. Seasalt 14:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I fixed "hewing."

Re: the R69S. It was the last, but so was the R60/2 and R50/2, all of this went out of production at the same time. Whether the R69S was the "best" of the three or not is arguable. Some very experienced students of slash-2s feel the R60/2 was the best because it wasn't as stressed and trouble prone as the "S" but had more power than the R50/2. To me they all are the "best."

Classic vs. vintage. In the world of old BMW motorcycles, "vintage" appears to be pretty generic for anything pre-1970. I guess that does not conform to the car world. Let me see about changing it in this article.

Jeff dean 15:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Made the change to "classic" today. Jeff dean 22:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

External links

All the non-R60/2 links should be removed and/or placed on one of the more generic BMW articles.--Hooperbloob 04:36, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Jeff dean 15:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Having seen links removed then restored, I just removed all external links that are not within WP:EL policy. It leaves just one, which is also a personal website, but less obviously so than others. I am going to go through the other BMW bike articles and do the same thing. --TimTay (talk) 20:42, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

You choose to ignore — WP-EL: What should be linked -- 4. Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article. I do not know what burr is under your saddle. Motorrad-67 (talk) 21:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Image size

I fully agree that the restoration photo should be 400px wide due to the detail that it reveals. Changing it was an oversight on my part. In the other BMW bike related articles I have left that and similar images intact. --Cheesy Mike 16:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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