Bike Garage - “E-Lisabad”: Customizer Rolf Reick Modifies Bmw Motorrad’S C Evolution

30 Sep, 2019 Post a Comment

Premiere of “E-LisaBad”: Customizer Rolf Reick modifies BMW Motorrad’s C development for the start time.
It's a scooter together with it's also electric, ii things that together should larn rid of those difficult together with pure fans who beloved vintage motorcycles, but manner goes on together with experimenting every bit well. This is clearly a manner exercise, but through these attempts, to a greater extent than or less successful, 1 traces the route for motorbike of a possible future.

The electrical maxi-scooter C development from BMW Motorrad has been given a novel look. Customizer Rolf Reick from Krautmotors inwards Heidelberg left his distinct grade on the electrical vehicle. The Pure&Crafted signature wheel volition last officially presented at the festival of the same cry inwards Berlin on August 26 together with 27.

The alteration of an e-scooter is a start for the customizer scene, which demanded abide by from the industrial designer together with managing director of a production pattern together with multimedia school: “I fifty-fifty took an extra preparation course, but nosotros never touched on electronics,” said Rolf Reick, known since 2003 every bit the “father” of the BMW Bobber, when he built Germany’s custom wheel of the year.

Reick, born inwards 1963, whose “childlike curiosity” takes him downwardly “the route less traveled,” has long wanted to customize an electrical vehicle. He’s excited to last the start someone to receive got on the challenge. He was determined for the renovation to exhibit the appealing contrast of something novel inside something old: “It’s close taking away people’s reservations amongst electronic vehicles. I’m showing them what they already know: an outside amongst an old-school expression – but built only about novel technology.”

First, however, he celebrated the fine art of omission he’s known for past times removing the master copy casing. He together with then lowered the vehicle, taking out the stupor absorbers to larn inwards rigid. He installed a slick inwards the dorsum together with stub handlebars inwards the front, followed past times the old-school casing, which entirely covers one-half of the scooter, leaving the other one-half bare. “So y'all tin run into correct away what it is: an e-bike,” says Reick. At the same time, he promises: “This is a existent Reick scooter – rough, raw together with unpolished.”

The scooter, named “E-LisaBad” afterward his grandmother, volition last presented at the Pure&Crafted Festival – Reick’s ideal setting, non to the lowest degree because of the music that volition last played there: “It’s handmade inwards a sense, but also electric. The perfect soundtrack for my C evolution.”

After the Pure&Crafted Festival, Reick volition deed on to 1 of the most of import sprint events of Europe, Glamseck 101, where he volition premiere his self-initiated “StarrWars” stiff frame sprint. He’s expecting potent chances on the 1/8-mile dragstrip: “Its acceleration through the straight ability transmission is what fascinates me close the C evolution.” Which agency the scooter may last rough, raw together with unpolished inwards price of to a greater extent than than only looks – Reick hopes it’s also “superfast.”