BMW: Wow - the R 18 as a custom conversion! 🎥
AS IT HAPPENS Two conversions in the space of a month: BMW Motorrad is bridging the wait until the official launch of the new BMW R 18 at the end of September with spectacular custom bikes based on the cruiser. The video shows how Roland Sanders and his team built the BMW R 18. The Californian designer and customizer Roland Sands [...]
The video shows how Roland Sanders and his team built the BMW R 18.
Californian designer and customizer Roland Sands has put a dragster version of the BMW R18 on wheels. Some components are available as factory accessories.
Now the Austrian Bernhard Naumann has lent a hand. In the custom scene, he has made a name for himself as "Blechmann. His interpretation of BMW's Big Boxer is therefore simply called Blechmann R 18.
Frame and technology like the original
450 hours of work went into the sporty single-seater. For his interpretation of the 1.8-liter bike, Naumann used only the original mounting points. He left the frame and technology virtually unchanged.
Bernhard Naumann: "I draw my design directly on the object with the final material. In this way, I can respond directly to requirements and have all the proportions in view at all times. There were no sketches or drawings before."
Homage to the BMW R 5 from 1936
The slim R 18 from the Tin Man remains true to the color scheme of the original: black paint with white double liner - a tribute to the BMW R 5 from 1936, the model for the R 18. A striking element is the high-rising fairing with forward-inclined headlight.
The filament light picks up the design of the BMW double kidney and is reminiscent of an earlier Tin Man conversion- the R Nine T based "Giggerl". Prices on request.
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