BMW Kompressor for sale at Vegas

[Deleted User 62]

From the Vintagent: "There is no question the BMW RS255 deserves a place at the very pinnacle of motorcycling history. While the German marque is admired throughout the world for its decades of competent, comfortable, and stylish motorcycling, there was a brief moment when it stood atop the world of road racing as well, having honed 15 years’ development of supercharged Rennsport machines into a thoroughly efficient, reliable, light, and devastatingly fast machine. The late 1930s was a Golden Age of Grand Prix racing, with the motorcycle factories of Europe clashing on newly-built, high-speed racing tracks with supercharged racers of multiple cylinders. Stalwarts of single-cylinder, overhead camshaft development – Norton and Velocette especially – had honed their light and reliable racers since the mid-1920s, with great success, creating the benchmark for an all-around excellent racing motorcycle, which combined light weight, good handling, high speed, and durability for the long-distance races. An amateur rider of great skill could, and often did, win a place in International racing with a machine purchased from these factories. But the ‘Works’ jobs were always that bit faster, and by the mid-1930s, what the factories created for their teams became a completely different animal from what even a favored rider could hope to purchase. And in truth, over-the-counter racers still held a good chance for a win or place, as the big factories were really stretching the limits of technology and metallurgy while testing scientific theories of combustion, supercharging, and aerodynamics." http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2012/1 ... vegas.html

[Chuey]

That's a pretty nice bike but I'm sticking with my R90S.

Chuey

[Garnet]

Is it a real one? I remember an article not that long ago about a company in Germany building a very few replica Kompressors out of RS54s. There where even fewer original Kompressors built and they where all works bikes.

Never mind, I just went to the Vintagenet. It's the bike Walter Zeller had built for himself. That's worth a buck or two.

[Major Softie]

Is it a real one? I remember an article not that long ago about a company in Germany building a very few replica Kompressors out of RS54s. There where even fewer original Kompressors built and they where all works bikes.

Never mind, I just went to the Vintagenet. It's the bike Walter Zeller had built for himself. That's worth a buck or two.

Yeah, cause although it's not REAL real, it's still pretty real. Which basically is like being REAL real but not used up.