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

Premiere of “E-LisaBad”: Customizer Rolf Reick modifies BMW Motorrad’s C development for the outset time.
It's a scooter as well as it's also electric, two things that together should larn rid of those difficult as well as pure fans who dearest vintage motorcycles, but way goes on as well as experimenting every bit well. This is clearly a way exercise, but through these attempts, to a greater extent than or less successful, ane 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 score on the electrical vehicle. The Pure&Crafted signature cycle volition hold upwards officially presented at the festival of the same hollo inwards Berlin on August 26 as well as 27.

The alteration of an e-scooter is a outset for the customizer scene, which demanded abide by from the industrial designer as well as managing director of a production pattern as well as multimedia school: “I fifty-fifty took an extra grooming 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 cycle of the year.

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

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

The scooter, named “E-LisaBad” later on his grandmother, volition hold upwards presented at the Pure&Crafted Festival – Reick’s ideal setting, non to the lowest degree because of the music that volition hold upwards 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 ane 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 stiff 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 hold upwards rough, raw as well as unpolished inwards damage of to a greater extent than than only looks – Reick hopes it’s also “superfast.”