I was just a kid back in '67 but I was reading the bike magazines by then, and I recall all the ads inviting folks to buy their bikes over there, spend their vacation with their bikes and then ship 'em back home -- often for less than what it would cost to buy one here. Then the DOT got involved, I guess it was, and pretty much put an end to all that. I have a few choice words for bureaucracies that queer a good deal for us regular folks, but I won't waste the bandwidth here. Anyway, your '67 looks like an R250, right? I didn't realize BMW was still making a single as recently as 1967.
I was at the British Motorcycle Owners Association Rally a couple years ago, which has become much more than a Rally for Brit bikes. It's now pretty much a Rally for everybody, but classic bikes especially. I got a pretty good shot of an R250 when I was there, with a really cool looking Laverda 750 in the background:
And another gent had just a gorgeous R60 on display:
Here's my '76 R90/6. Not a concourse bike by any means, but not a bad 10-footer. It gets me around, it's my primary transportation right now, in fact. Taken at the same meet with my gear draped all over it,
Okay, I realize none of the above shots were taken before 1990, but all the bikes date well before 1990 and they are also all film shots -- taken with my Bronica ETRSi and 75mm f/2.8 lens, film was Fuji Provia 100.
As for the photo of your biker cousin, thanks for letting me use it. Yeah mostly I'd just like to have it for my collection, certainly wouldn't try to use it for anything commercial. The reason why I was asking for another copy was on the off chance that the original you had might have been larger than the one you have displayed. If you have a larger file, I wouldn't mind having a copy. I'm pretty good at post processing also and if there's detail to be had, I can almost always find it.
So anyway, are you still riding? Do you still have that old Beemer? I'll bet it was cool riding an in-line shaft-drive single.