It’s been over eighteen months since BMW launched the mighty R18. And if you count the teaser campaign, the biggest-ever boxer has been kicking around since the middle of 2019, when the concept was revealed at Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como.
The BMW ‘Soul Fuel’ program has seen R18s delivered to several top custom shops, with interesting results. But all along we’ve wondered: “What would Winston Yeh do?” And now we have the answer, with the imposing ‘Berlin Barnstormer’ from Rough Crafts.
BMW didn’t wire a stack of euros over to Taipei to commission this build though. That fell to a private client. “He was one of the first to pre-order the R18 in Taiwan,” Winston reveals.…