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<\/a><\/p>\nKenji Nagai: \u2018At first I had a bagger style in mind that grew out of the tourer image. But simply transforming a tourer into a bagger was a bit too obvious a choice. So I thought of a different approach. I settled on the digger style. The long, thin digger style would make the in-line six-cylinder engine look even more prominent.\u2019<\/p>\n
The illusion of a dramatically low seat height and narrow motorcycle is enhanced by the use of a 23-inch front wheel and a 20-inch rear wheel. More nicely manufactured details made from aluminum like covers for fuel tank and radiator or handlebars are completing Kenji Nagai\u2019s artificial craftsmanship.<\/p>\n
Keiji Kawakita\u2019s \u2018Juggernaut\u2019 is a complete contrast by way of its dark, masculine stature. There\u2019s no sign of minimalism here and the loud and proud appearance makes \u2018Juggernaut\u2019 rather looking like a synthesis of Mad Max metal and Jules Verne\u2019s imaginations.<\/p>\n
A skeleton of aluminum tubing broadens the naked K 1600 GTL\u2019s chassis and instruments at each side of the fuel tank fit neatly with the military look. Reminiscences to the BMW Motorrad GS range are the dual fog lights and the front trail-like beak.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a monumental feat and the desired custom finish was, according to Keiji Kawakita, inspired by history: \u2018I found an old photograph of the cockpit of a convertible that looked like something from the near future, and I got the idea of making a bike that had that kind of atmospheric feel. Looking at the front forks and Duolever suspension, I thought I could do this with the K 1600 GTL. But the actual work was long and hard, a tough job to handle. Even when I finished, I still wasn\u2019t really sure whether the work was complete. But that\u2019s the thing about customizing, isn\u2019t it?\u2018<\/p>\n In a spectacular way, project \u201aIgnite Straight Six\u2019 continues the engagement and the ideas of the customizing scene in the land of the rising sun. BMW Motorrad can\u2019t wait to see the impetuses both the new creations are giving and what kind of new projects the future is going to bring.<\/p>\n More information on the project \u2018Ignite Straight Six\u2019 is available on:<\/p>\n http:\/\/ignite6.jp\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n Text and photos from: BMW Group<\/p>\n In the past year, four known japanese customizers have put the BMW R nineT spectacularly in show with their outstanding creations. By now, the project \u201aIgnite Straight Six\u2018 follows, being created one more time by japanese customizers. This conceals two radically modified BMW K 1600 GTL with six-cylinder engine of a displacement of 1649 cc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1258,1449,1301,474,1298,1300,222,1299],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw","tag-bike","tag-bmw","tag-custom","tag-gtl","tag-k1600","tag-kawakita","tag-motocykel","tag-nagaia"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["sk","en","de"],"languages":{"sk":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12184,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/12184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixmotor.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"