BMW R60/2

The BMW R60 and R60/2 are 600 cc boxer-twin motorcycles that BMW manufactured from 1956 to 1969 in Munich, Germany, together with the R60US built for the American market. Some 20,133 of these 600 cc shaft-drive, opposed-twin motorcycles were built, and apart from the US models they were designed primarily as rugged machines to pull sidecars, with mounting points built in and duplex tubular steel frames. Related models made at the same time included the 500 cc R50 and R50/2 and the sport-oriented R69 and R69S. In the United States all these Earles-fork and telescopic-fork models from 1955 to 1969 are often lumped together as the Slash-2 BMWs, although that is technically incorrect. Danny Liska rode R60 models from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and from the North Cape to the Cape of Good Hope.