It's been five years already since German bike maker BMW decided to give Harley-Davidson a run for its money and launched its first modern cruiser bike, the R 18, and things seem to be going ...

For decades now, BMW Motorrad has been defined by its Adventure bikes—notably, the tough-yet-elegant GS 1200. The German brand makes all kinds of motorcycles, and by and large they’re excellent ...

The cockpits for both step up from last year’s bikes with a 10.25 high-definition infotainment touchscreen joining the four analogue gauges. Behind that, both models get a larger fuel tank than the R ...

Never before has a motorcycle so perfectly embodied the heritage of the company that made it as the BMW R 18. Just have a look at its double steel tube frame, solid-looking rear, exposed shaft drive ...

Charles has been in the industry for 19 years now, and has worked with brands such as Autocar India, Overdrive, Motoring World, CarWale, BikeWale and Powerdrift. He has more experience reviewing cars, ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

German bike maker BMW gave birth to the R 18 motorcycle family four years ago, taking direct aim at Harley-Davidson with a cruiser the likes of which it hadn't offered since the demise of the R1200 RC ...

BMW nailed it on its new R 18 cruiser. The 1,802cc boxer twin-powered motorcycle is an elegant blend of nostalgia and modern technology that elicits a visceral reaction from the first sight of the ...

It’s the question or comment I got most often while riding BMW’s new R 18 cruiser, so let’s address it right off the top: Is the R 18 cruiser lineup Bavaria’s bid to take on Harley-Davidson (and ...

BMW Motorrad has expanded the model range of its bold, retro R 18 heavy cruiser with a Bagger version, bringing 100 years of German engineering to bear on a model variant that seems tailor-made for ...

Back when Harley-Davidson was printing money selling bucks-up cruisers faster than it could make them, every bikemaker in business wanted a taste of that cruiser action - even BMW. The result was the ...