Launched in 2020, the BMW R18 was welcomed as a clean canvas by corporations focusing on modifying bikes. Created by Fred Kodlin with the German agency’s blessing, the newest R18 offshoot turns heads with an air suspension system and a tattoo-inspired paint job.
Kodlin began with the touring-focused R18 B mannequin and enlisted the assistance of his son Len to show it right into a heavily-customized bike named R18 B Heavy Obligation. Almost each visible half has been modified: the father-and-son duo added elements like a chopped windshield sourced from the BMW Motorrad Equipment vary, prolonged aspect circumstances made with fiberglass, and a rear fender that covers practically your complete wheel. The gasoline tank is custom-made, and it is longer than the inventory half to enrich the flowing traces. A splitter was added behind the entrance wheel.
German tattoo artist Marcel Sinnwell is accountable for the paint job. The colourful patterns are air-brushed, and the stripes are hand-painted.
Past the design, probably the most vital modifications made to this motorbike is the addition of an air suspension system powered by a compressor hidden behind the left aspect case. It permits the trip peak to be raised and lowered on the push of a button. In its down place, the Heavy Obligation sits very near the bottom and stays up because of a pair of hidden help factors built-in into the body.
Kodlin did not make any mechanical modifications to the R18 B, that means energy comes from a 1.8-liter air-cooled flat-twin referred to as Huge Boxer in BMW-speak and tuned to develop 91 horsepower and 116 pound-feet of torque. It exhales by a custom-made exhaust system, and it encompasses a handful of visible modifications together with metallic black paint on elements of the consumption system, the belt cowl, and the valve covers.
“The bolts [are] all fabricated from chrome steel, with a pleasant Torx head. That’s not the way in which it’s on different bikes. The essential bike and particularly the engine are very, very cleanly completed. All {the electrical} cables are already properly hidden, so we did not should do something to the engine,” he defined. This consideration to element partially explains why the R18 household of bikes has been remarkably common on the {custom} scene.
We do not know if Kodlin will hold the R18 B Heavy Obligation within the lineup or if this one-of-a-kind cruiser wants a brand new residence.
