{"id":58410,"date":"2021-12-15T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=58410"},"modified":"2024-01-04T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:01:26","slug":"bavarian-bagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2021\/12\/bavarian-bagger\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 BMW R18 B and R18 Transcontinental Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The next stage in the line of Big Boxer variants.<\/h4>\n<p>One year ago BMW Motorrad defied the global pandemic by introducing the first in a new family of Cruiser models, addressing a segment that the German company had spent the previous 16 years \u2014 since production of its R1200C Custom model ended in 2004 \u2014 studiously avoiding. But with Cruisers dominating sales charts in the U.S., the Western world\u2019s No.1 market, BMW Motorrad CEO Markus Schramm felt this was a sector that could no longer be avoided in BMW\u2019s quest to topple Harley-Davidson from its global leadership in the premium motorcycle sector. \u201cBut we must try doing this our own BMW way,\u201d he insisted. \u201cWe never copy anyone, and that applies for this segment as well. It must be an authentic BMW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hence the BMW R18 Big Boxer Cruiser and its windshield and saddlebag-equipped R18 Classic spinoff, both of which entered production a year ago, and have since sold well, according to Schramm, with more than 4,000 examples delivered globally, especially in the U.S., China and Germany. But now comes the heavy brigade \u2014 in more ways than one, with the R18 B (B for Bagger) and its R18 Transcontinental full-dress Tourer sister bike hitting dealer showrooms as 2022 models, both of them faired variants of BMW\u2019s Cruiser platform with the exact same engine as the original R18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>True to its Roots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58417\" src=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BMW-R-18-B_119_jk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">The chance to ride the R18 B in Germany on a scenic, switchback 255 km route through the hills and valleys of the Taunus Mountains north of Frankfurt revealed how BMW is attacking the largest individual sub-sector of the Cruiser market with a Bagger not like the others \u2014 and not only because it declined to join the Cruiser crowd by building a V-twin motor, but instead remained true to its roots by developing the R18 Big Boxer powerplant, the largest-capacity flat-twin engine the company has ever built. BMW has specifically termed the model sector which this engine was designed to serve as its \u201cCruiser Touring\u201d segment, and the two new faired models are the first bikes to address the second element in that label.<\/p>\n<p>While the fairing parts the air smoothly and protects your hands from wind blast, the airflow over the short windscreen does hit your helmet, and in my case, at 5\u201910\u201d in height, it was turbulent enough at speeds of 120 km\/h or more to be annoying. The non-detachable but centrally locked twin bags look great and are well-made, so presumably are water-tight, and both open and close easily via pop-up levers. But they\u2019re also fairly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next stage in the line of Big Boxer variants. One year ago BMW Motorrad defied the global pandemic by introducing the first in a new family of Cruiser models, addressing a segment that the German company had spent the previous 16 years \u2014 since production of its R1200C Custom model ended in 2004 \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":61890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,1842,1851,2109,1852],"tags":[2152,2153,93,1716,2150,2151],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2022 BMW R18 B First Edition Motorcycle Review | Motorcycle Mojo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the January\/February 2022 issue of Motorcycle Mojo, we have a motorcycle review of the latest cruiser from BMW with the 2022 BMW R18 B First Edition.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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