Material taken from IBMWR mailing-list postings circa 1997-1998, plus private e-mails.  Many thanks to the contributors.

• Be creative -- stuff might be filed under alternate headings that only make sense to an insane person like myself.
• These are plain-text ASCII files, in DOS format (i.e., carriage-return + linefeed at the ends of each line). New material is added at the end of files, in Unix format (no carriage returns).  Periodically, I run a program to fix them up -- if you see "glitches" at the end of a file, it's new stuff added since I ran the program last.  Use a word-processing program to fix it or drop me a line and I'll run the fix-it program.
• If your browser won't display a file when you click on its name, try using the "File Save-As" command.
• If you see '=' (equals sign) characters at the ends of lines, that's caused by MIME (quoted-printable) encoding, which I haven't bothered to remove.  It's "normal."
• Much vendor contact info has been collected on my Gear Page.
• The Acronyms & Abbreviations Page explains some of the confusing jargon.
• All e-mail addresses have been obfuscated to discourage spammers.

FAQs/General Info

• Accident and theft reports.
• Alarm systems.
• CLASS (Pridmore) riding school.
• Cleaning, polishing advice.  Includes many chemicals.
• Clothing and care thereof.
• Covers for bikes.
• Documentation (manuals).
• Exhaust and mufflers.
• General includes stuff I really couldn't figure out what to do with, and IBMWR list admin stuff.
• Handlebars.
• Helmets.  Incl. selection and cleaning.
• Insurance.
• Jokes and humorous (in my opinion!) stuff posted on the list.
• Lowering the bike (for vertically-challenged rider).
• Mods is a catch-all for just about anything you can add to your bike, if it's not covered by a more-specific category, and maybe even if it is.
• Oil and oil filters. 
• Recalls and Dealer Issues, warranty, customer relations, and dealing with BMWNA.
• Police, tickets, litigating.  (Radar is under "Electrical".)
• Reflective tape/Scotchlite.
• Riding technique.  Includes body steering.
• Security.  Theft stories.  Locking ideas for bike & accessories.
• Seats.
• Sidecars.
• Sources for hard-to-find parts, etc.  Very prone to have stuff that might fit another heading.
• Throttle lock (cruise control).
• Tires and wheels and wheel-balancing.
• Training.
• Which bike to get?  Includes K-vs-R and newbie advice.

• Airhead stuff.  (Also check under "R-bike.")
• C1.
• F650 model.
• Oilhead stuff.  (Also check under "R-bike.")
• /2.
• /5.
• K100.  (Catch-all for K-bike stuff.)
• K1200RS.
• K75.
• R-bike stuff (catch-all [NEW]).  Because I can't tell offhand if something's an air- or oil-head, I'm just going to throw it all here.  (Sorry, I'm a K-owner and don't know these things... yet ;-)
• R65 and probably other airhead stuff.
• R1100GS.
• R1100RT.  (Catch-all for R11*/oilhead stuff. [PREVIOUS])
• R1200C Cruuzer.

• Annealing.
• Body.  Incl. tank repair. May include some seat info.
• Brakes and ABS.
• Cables.
• Engine.  (Catch-all!)
• Maintenance issues (Catch-all.) Includes splines.
• Gaspump.
• Luggage (esp. side bags).  Types, fitment, and repair.
• Metal chips in oil.
• Paint.
• Suspension.
• Torquing fasteners, torque wrenches.
• Transmission, shifting technique, clutch.. And shaft, and final drive.

• Altitude Plug.
• Battery.
• Coils.
• Electrical (catch-all).  Includes radar detectors!
• Gauges.
• GPS.  GPS stuff and mapping software.
• Heated grips.
• Intercom.
• Lights.
• Switches.

Travel and Touring

• Baja California.
• Bike swapping.
• Eating on the road.
• Recipes.
• Roads and places to ride.
• Road Anomalies Tour (RAT).
• Shipping bikes, importing, and international riding issues.
• Tents and camping.
• Touring.  (This is a catch-all for long-distance riding issues, rentals, etc.)
• Trip reports.

• Father's day.
• Granddad.
• Minnesota 1K.
• Miscellaneous stories (catch-all).
• Wanderlust.

• Bikes I Had (thread)

[up] to Motorcycles page.

If you use and/or like this page, let me know, and I'll put more effort into maintaining it.  At present, it's mostly for my own reference.  A search feature would be really useful, for example, but I haven't gotten 'round to implementing that, yet.  (I have an advantage: I can run a "find" program on the files on my PC :-)