No more overheating.

The BMW airhead may have been more than happy on the frozen Russian front in 1942, but an Arizona garage is no place for an old bike in the summer.

Daytime highs here often reach 110F meaning that, along with the greenhouse effect, the garage gets to 130F. That’s murder on rubber and batteries and while I do not care much about the cars, another summer in that garage would see lots of rubber parts being replaced on the old bike.

I decided to move the machine to air conditioned luxury for the four hot summer months and with my son tugging mightily on the luggage rack we managed to wrestle the 425lb. beast indoors, after first draining the tank.

In the lap of luxury. My 1975 BMW ‘Airhead’.

Oil leaks? Nah, not a problem. This is not a British bike.

iPhone 11Pro snap, UWA lens, with LR distortion correction profile.