|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: secure undisclosed locationville
Posts: 24,310
|
What the World Needs
figure it was about ten years ago. i was sitting out front of the rock store watching people walk by my 01 Victory V92C. by this time i'd ridden the bike all over the southwest, done a few years of los angeles lane splitting, and gone to alaska on it. i was quite proud of her. but no on cared because parked right next to it was a gilroy indian.
i concluded then that the world needed a polaris engine in an indian frame.   Indian Motorcycles : Official Website
__________________
1971 R75/5 2003 R1100S 2013 Ural Patrol 2023 R18 |
||
08-08-2013, 05:34 PM
|
|
|
Vafri
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Worldwide
Posts: 2,144
|
A 2014 Chief is the one new bike I'd consider.
|
||
|
08-09-2013, 02:09 AM
|
|
|
Almost Banned Once
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Adelaide South Australia
Posts: 38,407
|
Since as long as I can remember I always wanted an Indian motorcycle. Not a Harley but an INDIAN.
Old school no nonsense anything.
__________________
- Peter |
||
|
08-09-2013, 03:09 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: secure undisclosed locationville
Posts: 24,310
|
I was sort of hoping they'd use one of their atv engines: create a new Indian four. But it looks good enough. I've blown through my personal motorcycle budget for the next five years. But I want people to buy these. There needs to be a competitor to Harley. And they're not that much overpriced.
|
||
|
08-09-2013, 08:19 AM
|
|
|
Unregistered
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: a wretched hive of scum and villainy
Posts: 55,652
|
I believe the proper term is "Native American".
|
||
|
08-09-2013, 10:36 AM
|
|
|
Friend of Warren
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Lincoln, NE
Posts: 16,494
|
I know Polaris has the money to get this bike off the ground, but it seems they are coming in a little late for the expensive cruiser motorcycle fad.
__________________
Kurt V No more Porsches, but a revolving number of motorcycles. |
||
|
08-09-2013, 12:19 PM
|
|
|
B58/732
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Hot as Hell, AZ
Posts: 12,313
|
About damned time. Well, honestly, it's past time. I think this will likely go nowhere, just like the three (four?) other past revivals of the Indian name.
I enjoyed the hell out of my '01 V92C until I busted my tailbone. It's a freakin' shame they brought Arlen Ness on board. Their designs went from "industrial art deco" to "post space age cartoon". I could go for the Chief Classic or Vintage but the fairing on that bagger is a crime again nature.
__________________
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ I don't always talk to vegetarians--but when I do, it's with a mouthful of bacon. |
||
|
08-09-2013, 12:32 PM
|
|
|
Did you get the memo?
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 32,532
|
Quote:
__________________
‘07 Mazda RX8-8 Past: 911T, 911SC, Carrera, 951s, 955, 996s, 987s, 986s, 997s, BMW 5x, C36, C63, XJR, S8, Maserati Coupe, GT500, etc |
||
|
08-09-2013, 12:32 PM
|
|
|
B58/732
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Hot as Hell, AZ
Posts: 12,313
|
Hey, remember this? That seat was a double-scoop of WTF.
__________________
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ I don't always talk to vegetarians--but when I do, it's with a mouthful of bacon. |
||
|
08-09-2013, 12:34 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: secure undisclosed locationville
Posts: 24,310
|
"It's a freakin' shame they brought Arlen Ness on board. Their designs went from "industrial art deco" to "post space age cartoon"."
Loved my V92C, but if she were a woman I'd call her "big boned". Couldn't agree more about Arlen Ness. Right now Harley's biggest competitor is used Harley's. there are a million low mile trailer queens out there. But if you have to have new, then $18k isn't that much more. Guys spend 15k on a road king, and then another five wishing it looked like an Indian. Of course the economy is **** right now. Polaris has built whole factories for this project. So figure they've gonna commit for at least ten years. Maybe things will have turned around by then. |
||
|
08-09-2013, 01:37 PM
|
|
