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All good points chewed up here. Head over to Adventure Rider - Ride the World. (advrider.com) and many a tale of woe will surface on (very costly) BMW motorcycle final drive failures, with almost as many claims not honoured by the OEM. A lot has improved of late, but the R18 with its exposed...

I have not ridden the R18 at night yet and actually do not intend to either. Still, I generally find the latest LEDs to be way better than erstwhile incandescent cr4p - on cars and motorcycles, and even approaching HID levels of illumination in most cases now, IMHO, of course. Adaptive lighting...

I installed a Denali SoundBomb Mini on mine since I use them on several other rides - Amazon.com: SoundBomb Mini Electromagnetic Low Tone Horn: Automotive. It was the first thing I did when I got the bike. It only pulls 5 amps and does not require a relay but does proper LOUD. It screws onto...

For some obscure reason, something, or more than one thing, simply does not gel (?) It sports the BMW Custom Rims - they seem to have used 18" at the rear and 21" in front? The original promotional BMW Bobber featured 16" (R18 Classic) wheels at both ends.

And accepting pre-orders on two flavours; Bobber; Bmw R18 Bobber - Préparateur motos - Fcr Original (fcr-original.com) and Sport; Bmw R18 Sport - Préparateur motos - Fcr Original (fcr-original.com) Seat; Kit selle Bobber type Cuir pour BMW R18 (fcr-accessoires.com) - a bit steep. Also...

Probably the bobber kit with the best seat location I have seen yet - both height and distance from the gas tank - in my opinion, of course. And without added bits between the seat and tank, like as is the case with the Wunderkind option. I would think that the rear fender needs either more...

And the R18 (referred to as 'that thing' in the Video) hardly needs a 'test' like this; WE FINALLY TESTED A *REAL* BIKE! BMW R18 RIDE AND REVIEW - YouTube. Close to 900k subscribers. Approaching 50k views in just 4 days. At 7:45 into the attempt, 'It literally becomes blurry because the front...

I have owned six BMW cars to date, all of them purchased new. I go onto the website, spec everything down to the colour of the leather and inlay on the dashboard, choose a dealer, sort finance and wait for a phone call to come collect it. Exactly as I chose. I know riders who do the same when...

It is not selling in South Africa either. BMW totally scr3wed up with the way they brought the R18 to market. I ordered mine in March last year, and I had it uphill doing just that at the time. The Motorrad dealer had virtually no information on it - ballpark price, availability, why one...

I have been riding motorcycles for almost fifty years now. I almost exclusively spent the first twenty on nakeds - that was all we had - and the next twenty on a mix of naked roadsters as well as sport/super-bikes and cafe racers - the latter with bikini bubbles or racing fairings. The last...

Wow! Spectacular! The speedometer should have been red as well. I am mulling white-walls myself. I have them on the Chief Vintage and soon on an Electra Glide Revival too. That RSD® seat can be had in brown too.

Horses for courses. One needs to adapt your riding style to what you are on. My rides range from a '95 Boss Hoss with an automotive rear tire and probably 10 degrees lean-in tops (predominantly for laying down rubber) to a 2015 Panigale R with Diablo Supercorse SPs and rear-sets (for chasing...

I am simply not a one-bike kind of person - never was. If you do not earn enough to afford it, it means you are selling yourself short or need to improve something - been there, done that (-: If your place is too small, you obviously need to get a larger place - finally sorted as well ((-: If...

The fender-with-an-engine, IMHO. Nevertheless, it is truly a remarkable effort.

Also, add some Autosol® for Aluminium and Autosol® for Stainless Steel while you at it. You will polish your Alu and SS bolts and bits to a chrome-like lustre in no time, by hand. Amazing stuff. Just not on the R18, since most fillister Torx screws are zinc-plated )-: Autosol® also does a...

I own, and have owned, several rides with lots of chrome - to which I add even more whenever I can (-: One thing to always keep in mind is that the 'chrome plating' is very thin and easily damaged. And even though industrial chrome applications (e.g. hard chrome and HVOF) might render...

No, they are not. And I have no affiliation to that website. I am not far behind you - 63. This is me, the good-looking youngster on the left, the day I collected my R18 in Boksburg, just east of Johannesburg.

1960 1800cc versus 2021 1800cc version (-: (photo courtesy First Ride Review – 2021 BMW R18 | Bike-urious)

Sacrilege. The ACS button on the left handlebar control - see pages 46 and 76 in the User Manual. (photo courtesy www.bike-urious.com)

Mucker, you make it sound like you are about to expire (-: 63-year-old, top fuel; Why We Will NEVER FORGET this Incredible TOP FUEL NITRO MOTORCYCLE Race! - YouTube. Go to 27:18 into the video. 70 year-rings, nitrous 2-stroke; World’s FASTEST NITROUS KAWASAKI Breaks Record! - YouTube, Go to...