BMW R18 Cruiser Preview (Upgraded Version). Is It Better than Harley-Davidson (Fat Boy)?

Big news for today! 

BMW enters the cruiser segment with THE new R18 is big its class is beautiful and it will be a tough rival for Harley-Davidson. 

Harley Davidson Fat boy

The engine is an air-cooled boxer a traditional BMW engine and is the biggest one BMW ever produced1800 CC. It makes 91 horsepower which is excellent for this segment but probably doesn't mean too much.

If you're a sports bike rider however when it comes to cruisers when it comes to these type of engines, the torque is the most important, and from 2,000 to 4,000 rpm the range you can use it for 90% of the time and it produces 150 Newton meters of torque which should be enough more than enough. I also got the ng style from the BMW footage so let's listen to it sounds pretty good and I'm bigger to write it, but before that I look closer at the engine because it'snot just about the sound and it's also the way it looks because this engine is a piece of art it's an OS variant to come shafts and it features those pushrods that resemble the traditional boxer the engines built more than 70 years ago.

Actually the engine is inspired from the old half five and I'm gonna tell to you right now that I found the R5 engine, it was built in 1936. Of course, the engine that I talking about right now is the big boxer and  is a completely new engine, and although it borrows some elements from this one. It's completely new stuff just like the old boxers and it's features a single disc dry clutch but it was built as a self-reinforcing country hoping clutch which is very important for this type of the engine which huge torque and low rpm range because if downshifting aggressively happen then the wheel won't lock anymore, so this is a very cool safety feature that throttle is right by wire which is also very important and respecting a smooth response of the acceleration.

BMW R18 Cruiser

Now let's move to the back wheel because this is another piece of resistance is the exposed shaft over here it's nickel plate and it's open just like the BMW's built until in 1955. The Aventine features a traditional double loop steel frame which is very nicely put together and now let's move to the swing arm over here because it's also made of steel tubes and castle forge parts it surrounds the real X transmission just like in the BMW R5 and  it looks like a rigid frame which is very cool but, obviously it has a rear suspension hidden somewhere under the seat and everything goes in line in a spectacular way also on the front, as seen in the old R5.

The suspension tubes are encased in false leaves giving this minimalistic clean historical feeling which has this giant boxer engine is it's impossible to obtain an elongated riding position, so BMW comes with mid-mounted footpegs right behind the cylinders and that what I wonder if is there gonna be a lot of heat coming from the engine during the hot summer days, I don't know and I cannot tell for now how it feels, but in two days, from now I'll be able to get my hands on one of these of course, but I'm not gonna be able to ride it and still, I'm gonna sit on this bike and tell you how it feels however there are some different seats and handlebars available to customize it from and what I've seen on the list.

There are six seats some handlebar risers and three optional handlebar types including two ape hangers like this, one speaking of accessories, and there are different dimensions of wheels with different pegs, and footboards bags anyway. It's a long list of elements and it would take me way too long to talk about them but there are some genuine American parts were to be mentioned like the vents enhance and exhaust the Mustang seats and the Roland Sands collection created especially for this bike. 

There are two collections the machined and the two-tone black, so you can transform it just as you like from the classic simpler 18 to this eye-catching bobber and it's not this one of it's. This on the R18 features killers and there's this minimalistic button over here to turn your bike on and there's also a classic - which looks lovely and a small digital display where you can see the writing modes. I can see the right big mode over here which is the role writing mode and speaking of that it is a very interesting part over here because usually, BMW buys have three writing modes i.e, 

(it's rain Rodan dynamically don't know maybe dynamic Pro something like that and enduro in the case of Snow), these are ideal features a completely different writing mode and it is the rail of course then roll and then it's rock, so this writing both you can control the intervention of the abs the traction control and the throttle response of course rain is the softer one roll is somewhere in the middle and rock gives you full power. 

Another cool the feature is the reverse gear because this is a heavy bike and there is a switch on the left side of the bike and is very useful and there's also cruise control that comes as an action the headlight is full LED and it's round looks classical but it also comes with cornering lights with the base price for. 

The USA will be somewhere around 17,500 dollars, and it will cost 19,870 dollars with additional stuff in Europe on the other hand we will have the first edition that will cost twenty-two thousand eight hundred euros in Germany and of course, the price will be different depending on the market in just two days.

Now I'll be able to get my hands on this bike and I'm gonna come up with a workaround and I'm gonna be able to share my thoughts after seeing it.

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