How it's Made: BMW Motorcycles

EDIT: I forgot the REAL impetus behind me wanting to post this: if you want to see how “Import Gasket Maker” should be applied, watch at 9:42 to see the robot doing it right. :slight_smile:

I assume everyone but me has already seen this before today, but if you haven’t, check it out.

I find the first 20 minutes especially fascinating, as I love powerplants, and this shows several of them “in process”. (Including the K1600 straight 6 :thumbsup: ).
But the rest of this is interesting if you’re into automotive stuff at all, as bikes are still “handbuilt” enough to be especially fascinating (not that roboticly constructed stuff ISN’T fascinating, but I think there’s something special about watching actual people do actual work on a conveyance that you could actually buy and actually take down the autobahn at fascinating speeds).
Here’s a bonus, to contrast the "handmade"ness of the bike with the “roboticized” car build. Still fascinating in its own right.

and really, just check out the channel if you like this kind of thing

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This is what happened to the BMW motorcycle factory after WWII when the Soviets relocated it to the Ural Mountains…

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My understanding of the history is slightly different (the Ural M71 being, quite literally, a clone of the BMW R71, was already produced and in use by the Russian Army by 1942) , but those are awesome bikes.
I love the driven wheel sidecar!

my story sounds better tho . . . . . .

(the Russian’s version was from a deal with Germany before the WWII)

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