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United Kingdom Motorcycle Racing Biography Introduction.
Boxer Brigade
After 97 years manufacturing opposed twins, BMW decided to build a mega-cruiser. As in really long and low, using historic Motorrad design elements and sporting a massive, air-cooled, 1,802cc boxer engine.
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And all done from the ground up for North America.
More than four decades after Japanese companies entered the cruiser segment, this long-in-coming—but also forward-looking—proposition is based on intel that the next generation of riders is open to cruisers and not just typical V-twins.
Call it a changing of the generational guard, but BMW sees this time as a window and the R 18 as the right arrow to shoot through it.
American Motorcyclist doesn’t conduct formal bike reviews, but is highly interested in people.
Motorcycle people. Our people.
So, when BMW made one of the new R 18s available, we instantly knew what to do: Put it in the hands of as wide a variety of motorcyclists as we could to see what they thought.
From 30 years old into their 70s, male and fema