1933 BMW R11 Combination 740cc 2 Cyl Sv Starting Up [Video]

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This BMW R11 runs well and smooth with its reliable 740cc boxer engine. The engine gets the gasoline – air mix from a SUM carburetor with air heating feature and transmit the power with 3 speed gearbox to the rear wheel. This very sturdy combination waits to ride it on the road. Following the collapse of its aero engine business after WWI, BMW turned to other areas of manufacture, motorcycles among them.

source.image: classic-motorcycle.com

Its first two models, marketed as the Frink and Helios respectively, were failures, but a successful proprietary engine was supplied to other manufacturers. Launched in 1923, the first motorcycle to be sold as a BMW – the R32 – featured a 493cc, twin-cylinder, sidevalve engine having horizontally opposed cylinders, and this ‘flat twin’ layout would forever be associated with the marque.

Setting a pattern that endures to this day, the first BMW motorcycle was relatively expensive but superbly …