BMW’S bobber goes big

BMW IS GOING into the bobber business.

With many manufacturers going down the bobber route and launching lean, low, cut down motorcycles that ape the American cruisers of the 1950s, the German automotive giant has gone bigger than most with its Motorrad Concept R18.

The machine features a newly designed, two-cylinder 1800cc boxer engine.

Visually based on the flat twin engines that BMW used to build up until the end of the 1960s, the new engine features combined air/oil cooling.

Read more and view more images in the July 2019 issue of CBG – on sale now!