1969 BMW R69SFinal Year of Germany's Fastest Motorbike Series in Glorious Sporting Fashion.'The mood at the Cologne IFMA (International Bicycle and Motorcycle Exhibition) in 1960 was not especially optimistic. Many German motorcycle manufacturers had gone bankrupt in the last few years and many others were fighting to survive. Even at BMW, the crisis in the motorcycle market had left its mark: from 1954 to 1959 annual output fell from almost 30,000 to 8,412. This lack of sales volume…