BMW Motorrad will launch the R 18 retro cruiser bike in India on September 19, 2020. The bike was listed on the corporate’s web site approach again in April 2020.
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The BMW R 18 retro-cruiser bike can be launched in India on September 19, 2020
The brand new BMW R 18 retro cruiser bike can be launched in India on September 19, 2020. The BMW R 18 is an achingly handsome bike. It’s a full-blown trendy heavyweight cruiser, and BMW Motorrad says it mixed traditional styling with trendy expertise in flowing, seamless method. BMW had listed the bike on its web site approach again in April 2020. It will get a tear-drop formed gas tank, a protracted wheelbase, spherical headlamp and splashes of chrome in the correct locations. The design inspiration comes from the BMW R5, outdated BMW R5, which was in manufacturing in late 1930s.
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The superbly chromed engine, the uncovered shaft drive and the hidden cantilever monoshock on the rear (to provide it a hard-tail look) and superbly performed exhaust pipes with fish-tail suggestions together with the old-school valve covers and the spherical LED headlamp and the wire spoke wheels. For sure, it’s superbly performed and the single-piece seat drives dwelling the purpose that this bike is supposed to be ridden alone.
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The BMW R 18 will get a 1,802 cc boxer-twin engine, the place the heads jut out of the perimeters of the bike. The engine is air-cooled in addition to oil-cooled and it makes 91 bhp of peak energy at four,750 rpm and an enormous 157 Nm of most torque at simply three,000 rpm. The engine is paired to a 6-speed gearbox and employs a ultimate shaft drive as an alternative of a sequence drive or a belt drive. One also can go for a low-speed reverse gear as effectively.
There are three using modes to start with, that are Rain, Roll and Rock (Sure, you learn that proper). Plus, the bike additionally will get computerized stability management and motor slip regulation. The Rain mode provides the least energy and excessive ranges of traction management whereas Roll is for each day use, metropolis using and Rock in fact provides full energy, crisp throttle response and a little bit of wheel-spin as effectively. The bike could have two variants on sale, commonplace and the primary version.
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We anticipate the costs of the bike to begin at ₹ 18 lakh (ex-showroom). At that worth, the BMW R 18 might go up towards the likes of the newly launched Triumph Rocket three GT and the Rocket three R.
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