Custom Bikes Of The Week: 1 September, 2019
An Indian Scout from Austria, a Super Cub from Italy, a production electric bike from Australia, and a BMW from Texas—with a 1,500 cc VW engine. We’ve been collecting the air miles this week.
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The iconic Indian Scout has been in production, on and off, since 1919. For almost a century it has been chopped, bobbed and raced, and the 101 Scout, made from 1928 to 1931, is undeniably one of the most influential motorcycles ever made.
Today, the Indian Scout is enjoying a resurgence. In 2015, the ‘new’ Indian Motorcycle company launched a contemporary 1,133 cc (69ci) liquid-cooled Scout, with a new DOHC V-twin and an alloy frame. It’s now one of the best-selling motorcycles in the USA, and increasingly popular with customizers. For the 2018 model year, a Scout Bobber variant was introduced.
In 2016 company owner Polaris Industries revealed the Indian Scout FTR750 flat tracker, the first all-new Indian race bike in decades. Powered by a fuel-injected, four-valve-per-cylinder motor, it allowed the Indian ‘Wrecking Crew’ race team to dominate the 2017 American Flat Track season with 14 total wins, and 37 podium appearances.
At the EICMA motorcycle industry show in 2017, Indian pulled the wraps off the Scout FTR1200 Custom, a road-legal street tracker concept closely related to the FTR750 race bike.
Drag Bike: A 130 hp nitrous-fueled Indian Scout Bobber
Right now, thousands of fans and motorcycles are converging on Monza for The Reunion—a weekend-long celebration of custom motorcycle culture. It’s also where the first round of the Sultans of Sprint sprint race series is happening. And that means that a whole lot of new race bikes are breaking cover. This is the first one…
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Damage Control: How the ‘Evel Knievel’ FTR750 was built
It was the biggest moto stunt of the 21st century. In a marketing masterstroke for Indian Motorcycle, Travis Pastrana reprised three of Evel Knievel’s most iconic jumps in one day—including the Caesar’s Palace fountain jump that put Knievel in hospital. Pastrana picked the Indian Scout FTR750 as his weapon of choice. Why? Because the stunt…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 27 May, 2018
A subtle but strikingly effective makeover for the Indian Scout Bobber, an astounding Honda CB900F restomod from Canada, a drag bike with Multistrada power, and a peek at BMW’s latest concept, revealed at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. And all guaranteed to be free of pipewrap and Firestones.
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Exclusive: The Indian Scout FTR1200 Custom
The bike we’ve been waiting for Indian to build is here. Well, almost. We’re told it’s a prototype, but we know it’s…
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Review: The 2018 Indian Scout Bobber
On a hot and sweaty July night in downtown Minneapolis, America’s oldest motorcycle manufacturer pulled the wraps off a low slung, blacked…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 27 March, 2016
A Mike Hailwood Ducati Scrambler tribute, the winner of Indian’s Project Scout program, and a killer Yamaha RD350 from Twinline Motorcycles. Meet…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 6 March, 2016
A Maserati-powered monster from Lazareth, the one and only custom BMW G 650 Xchallenge we’ve ever seen, and a rip-snortin’ Indian Scout…
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A race replica Indian Scout by Analog Motorcycles
With all eyes on Indian Motorcycle’s relaunch of the iconic Scout, it’s refreshing to see vintage examples vying for attention too. And…
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Defying Gravity: The Wall of Death Indian Scout
The launch of the new Scout in Sturgis had to be more than a silly sheet-pull. So Indian Motorcycle looked to history…
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1948 Indian 648 Big Base Scout
It’s hard to believe this racebike was built sixty years ago. But it was so far ahead of its time, it was…
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