Customer comments on this selection.
 There are much better alternatives
In my BMW restoration efforts, I've built up quite a library of useful references. This is not one of them. The writing style is difficult, all in a pedantic passive tense, tending to wander off to irrelevancies while totally omitting discussion of important topics. I read this book at about the same time I read Zimmerman and Hacket's "How to Restore Your Motorcycle," another book in the Motorbooks series, and a much better guide to restoration. You see, in the effort to restore a vintage BMW, most of the little details that you need can be found online in the many user forums devoted to the subject. What a book can give you, and what you won't easily find online, is the big picture - what bikes are good candidates for restoration, how to set up a workshop, what tools you must have vs. what you shop out, how to organize the whole project. Walker's treatment of these subjects is inadequate, compared to Zimmerman and Hackett's. Also, the bulk of Walker's book is a discussion of various technical systems of the bike. It repeats, in a scanty fashion, information that is already in the service, parts, and related technical manuals that you will need to get anyway in order to restore your BMW. If you feel you must buy an expensive out-of-print manual on BMW restoration, the BEST book, hands down, is Slabon's "How to Restore Your BMW Motorcycle." Slabon only covers models thru the /2 series, but even if you have a later airhead, it's far superior to Walker's book in all respects.
 Very Good!
This was another purchase for my husband. That is a BMW Motorcyclist, he will always say never can have enough books on these great bikes!
Good information.
BMW Restoration Book Comment
It does not give technical hints but just a detailed and photographic description of different BMW Bike Models.
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