Phil Hawksley's BM Bikes

'The Ultimate BMW Information Site'

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Find Information, Specifications and Images of Your Favourite BMW Motorcycle

About This Site

Welcome to a faithful restoration of Phil Hawksley's BMBikes web site, reconstructed in honour of Phil and the importance of the information he gathered on this web site (and honouring his work to produce it).

The site was reconstructed from the Internet Archive "Way Back Machine" service - a system that takes backups of the more popular websites and makes them available even after the original web site goes offline (as happened to this site around 2023, some 5 years after Phil's passing). If you would like to access this service go to the web site https://web.archive.org and if you enter bmbikes.co.uk in the search box you will find the copy of Phil's web site I used.

This site obviously cannot resproduce the Forum from that web site as that requires a database, but the core BMW Bike information is all here I believe. Obviously the information stops around 2018 when Phil sadly passed but if there is someone out there who would like to continue his work then please reach out to us by email and we will see what we can do.

I have removed the advertising along with the PayPal donation buttons. I have also updated the HTML to replace the FrontPage features with the more advanced CSS that is available now.

I have left the text on the pages much as Phil had typed it (such as his introduction below).  Obviously some of the links will be out of date and I will try to get those updated when I have time, I will also try to re-introduce the site-search facility but otherwise I believe the site will remain as it is for some time to come and hopefully provide the concept of a centralised store for this information just as Phil intended.

July 2024 update - all pages are now "responsive" which means they should appear OK on your smart phone screen or tablet.

The idea of this web site was born out of frustration; the frustration of not being able to find the information I wanted, when I wanted it. Have you ever tried to find that elusive detail regarding the BMW that you're in the middle of rebuilding? Have you ever tried to find details of the original colour scheme and pin striping of that R100S you're trying to restore to it's original glory? I have 'cos I service, repair and restore BMW's for a living and a restoration can be extremely frustrating when information isn't available!

Much of the information on this site can be obtained elsewhere if you're prepared to spend a lot of time searching but as far as I can discover, there is no one place where you can find it all - in fact colour schemes do not seem to appear anywhere and the rest can be very difficult to find.

The idea of this site is to bring all information together in one place so that all you BMW enthusiasts out there in Cyber Space can easily find the information you need. This is a long term project and much of this site is "In Progress" and is likely to be so for years to come as I do have a living to earn too and it is extremely time consuming finding and putting this information together! I have spent considerable time double checking the information that is included but cannot guarantee that all information is free of mistakes - if you spot any errors, please mail me and let me know.

Please help me to improve this site by sending any and all BMW motorcycle related information, photos etc that you may have but please ensure that what you send is not copyrighted to someone else or at least let me know if it is copyright so that I can ask the owner for permission to use it. If sending machine photos please try to include as much information as possible  (model, year, colour, scheme number etc. the colour scheme number can be found on the rear mudguard).

Your suggestions for links to appropriate sites will be much appreciated and all will be considered and included should I feel that they are appropriate. So....... please help by submitting links to your favourite BMW sites and by sending any relevant information or photo's you may have that aren't already included on this site.