I commented recently on anothers review of a cruiser that "we all end up on a cruiser if we ride long enough." Very nicely done. If I could get past the worry of dropping that "work of art", I would perhaps consider one. Cheers

I love it when companies build over the top motorcycles! A regular person can actually buy one! It's hilarious!

I was looking at the Triumph R3, but after discovering the BMW R18 I decided I am buying this one. This is the best looking bike I have ever seen.

Fantastic video with great footage and detail! Thank you for sharing your review of our R18 100 Years, see you again soon.

Test road a few well known cruisers…….. when I road the R18 ……. made the purchase…it’s different……. It’s a mechanical piece of jewelry…. Rides great….. love the engine and exhaust design….. it holds its own……

I own a 2022 R18b, 32000 miles later I knew I had to have another “Starbucks Bike” for my around town rides. Great information on the video, appreciate the honesty and first hand ride opinion. I prefer to call it a one in 1900 plus bike to have parked and ready for a day of easy cruising.. Nearing 70 by age group this is most likely my last purchase, thanks for the encouragement of ownership with a great video. 😊

That beast looks like a Art Deco sculpture to me. I can imagine myself with long leather gloves, boots to my knees, round goggles, and my earflaps blowing in the wind. I have seen a few of them on the roads in the middle part of the US. It stands out in the sea of Harley's and Indian's. Kind of sexy! lol Plus with that much torque I could plow my garden. Not sexy lol

most beautiful bike in decades

Great review Michael. I just got my R18 10 days back and I am loving it. To share an experience, I was on the Sydney M5 last weekend heading for the Southern Highlands. The long weekend attracted a lot traffic. I was moving bumper to bumper for an hr. Not something I had expect on my first long trip on this heavy beauty. After trying different clutch positions at slow speed, found that the bike could stroll easily with no clutch and no hand on the gas without stalling. Real beauty with character 😇

Another great and enjoyable review Michael, I’m certainly more inclined to try one of these after watching your informative and brilliant review 👌

Love the color scheme of that R18. The seat color fits really nicely with the rest of the bike.

Nice watch.... had my R18 (same spec as tested but a first edition) for about 4 months.... never owned a cruiser (I'm 62yo).... I added it as a second bike mostly for it's vintage looks and class.... plus they were going cheap as new old stock (10,000 pounds equiv..... in Australia)..... anyway.... mostly fast windy roads where I am.... added a +25mm Wilbers shock.... travel goes from 90 to 115mm.... plus fork springs and emulators and lighter fork oil...... makes a lot of difference on poorly surfaced roads.... anyway... a great bike in my view.... lot's of comments... and after adjusting the heel/toe shifter I would not be without it..... Wunderlich make bits to help with that..... definately the bike to ride to heavens gates on.... a GS would get you turned away.....

I'm not really a cruiser man, but I like this one. Ah, Easy Rider. I watched that. Thought I was Peter Fonda after on my CD175. I even had a sissy bar on it. Tied my open-faced helmet to it and rode sans helmet until one of my father's employees saw me and told me he'd tell him if he ever saw me riding helmetless again. That did the trick. 48 MPG isn't bad for an 1800. If I was going to have a really big cruiser, it would be the Goldwing 'bagger'. I like bikes which are easy to ride slowly. Small capacity bikes rarely are. I could ride in top gear with no throttle through Spanish villages on my Suzuki B-King. I may have mentioned that before ages ago. I'm in the 'these videos are a bit too long' camp. Too much on the specs, but I watched it all from the riding onwards, after only watching some of the specs part. Nick J

Wonderful Michael! Keep producing more such gems bro. Love from Delhi.

Well Michael great video enjoyed a balanced review not many about on the R18, I have the Classic with the panniers and screen and I love it. Bought it for my 80th birthday and just coming up to 8 thousand smiles , most of my riding is in mid or north Wales very rarely do less than 180 miles run , use it on Roll and return 54 mpg , I prefer foot peg s to floor boards and have only touched down once , takes a few hundred smiles to fully appreciate how good this bike is, I now need two new tyres the Bridgestones have been great I was going to change to Michelin but can’t see the point now as I’ve been happy enough with the originals , I also have the original cruiser had it years now another great bike imho that very few liked , argh well can’t please everyone , cheers Graham

Thank you Michael for this wonderful and thoughtful review. I’ve had my R18 about 14 months now, I absolutely love it. When ridden as a cruiser it just doesn’t disappoint. Art Deco on wheels. 👌

Great review. Balanced, informative & honest.

Absolutely this is a great one.. This is my first bike I ever purchased in my life. I ride with BMW Pure-Boxer jacket and gloves. Gives immense riding pleasure.

Great review & the bike is a useable work of art...cheers from New Zealand..

I love your videos , very soothing and classy review with elegance. I too will be purchasing the Roctane version.

Greetings Mr mam, As always another brilliant detailed video production 🇺🇲🍾🎉🇺🇲 Keep producing more videos

Nice video with classy review

the mechanical arrangement of the bike is pure art. it like i am looking at a vintage locomotive

An enjoyable & honest review as always Michael.

I love the Bike and the seat of this model and color... ;-D nice review...

Very interesting, as always 👍👍

And another brick in the wall crumbles. Walls divide. Celebrate !

I learned a lot from watching this helpful video. It has me thinking about shopping for one if they are still available.

Truly one of the most high value presentations we have seen! Thanks for the great video! Personally, I think this bike is a beauty and stylistically very nice, the only thing which does not get me inspired is the weight and the low seat - my back is for the upright riding postion where one can rise from the seat slightly when needed. Otherwise I would be all in! The usable torque is something most important, I do not like high revving engines actually.

I am not a cruiser fan but this is art on two wheels! I have to admit. I do like the BMW boxers though. An R NineT pure would do just fine ;)

Another massively informative video with great footage and detail. One of, if not the best from the MAM Journals. It's an impressive machine. I learnt so much about this R18 machine by watching the video. Absolutely superb. Well done. 🫡

Thanks so much. I am getting one within a few weeks.

outstanding!

Very informative video! Good to know that the bike was very stable at Highway speeds especially with strong gusts of wind. I am actually waiting for the R12 to come out and compare it with the R18 in back to back test rides.

Nice bike, but the R9T 100 is my favorite, would love one of those in my garage to run around the north Yorkshire lanes.

A lovely looking bike, beautifully finished. Not my cup of tea though. Thanks Michael.

Salut, c'est vraiment une tres belle moto. Je vais l’essayer et peut être en acheter une.

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Damn that's a big bike...a locomotive.

Nice bike but you'd have to wonder why manufacturers produce this and the rocket, the market is miniscule, all things considered. Also, you would have thought for a collector, the first numbered bike in a production run of a limited edition bike would be greatly sought after, which makes it all the stranger, that it is a demo bike. Very good presentation

Harley have the right engine for a cruiser. The big V twin looks beautiful, that Boxer looks, well it's not for me.😂

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Not my kind of bike I've had a couple of cruisers and couldn't get on with them but each to their own. I watched your video and chat even though I didn't particularly like the bike which says everything about your style and presentation.

It looks very good quality as you would expect from BMW but I cab't imagine there it much of a market for these, maybe America. Imagine if it fell over, you would need a fork lift to pick it up.

Is the tank black or not? I can’t tell haha some angles it looks 100% chrome, others it’s black

This bike has floorboards. I would welcome any info on how this was done. The rider peg R18's don't receive floorboards.

Steampunk comes to mind

Practice ‘heel and toe” on your Honda c50😂👍🇬🇧

760 lbs? ..thought for sure they were over 800lbs.

I think in imperial I don't understand this metric stuff you talk 😅

لا يوجد تبريد مائي ، وهذه مشكله ارتفاع درجه حراره المحرك

Enjoy your Asian bikes in good health

I love the bike, but when I heard about not releasing a service manual, I was completely turned off. Maybe all manufacturers will go this way, but until then, I refuse to give BMW a nickel. Because that attitude tells me, "Yeah, we own this bike, and we're just leasing it to you." Complete turnoff. I saw the video where they gave this guy all these phone numbers to call and just gave him a run around. They basically are playing a game of not publicly telling their consumers, "Yeah, we're basically lying to you, we're going to send you on a wild goose chase, until you just give up."

No such design. You said "push rod activated overhead cam".

What crap ! I stopped watching when He said it had "PUSH ROD OVERHEAD CAMS " ?????/

There were unsold R18 first editions in dealerships last spring. You can buy new for £12k. It's a total flop because it's a hipster kiddy pram. Do your homework.

This is a very stupid machine. You drop it and you are done with. Boxer engine is simply idiotic. 😢

Good morning Mike! I really enjoyed your concise review of what might be my next Bike. I have been continuously riding since 1962 and my current bike, a 2023 Kawasaki Versys 650 LT is # 90. I visited a Dealer yesterday and finally got to see a REAL, in the flesh, R18 Classic, which apparently are extremely RARE on our United States roads. BMW doesn't have a lot of Dealers in the Heartland, unlike HD and the Japanese brands. My recent bikes have been a Triumph Rocket 3 Roadster and an African Twin Adventure Sports and I've had ALL kinds of bikes from Trials to Superbikes but I still enjoy a BIG cruiser. I have had four 'R' series and one 'K' series Beemer's and love the brand but my nearest Dealer is 150 miles away, which gives me pause about buying one. I really appreciate your professional Gentlemanly demeanor, with NO FOUL language or HIP Hop/ Metal music in the background. Thank you.