Posted on 08/04/2013 2:03:08 PM PDT by occamrzr06
The legend has returned – and its splash is sure to reverberate from Main Street all the way to Juneau Avenue in Milwaukee. The new generation of American V-Twin cruisers made its grand debut in front of a crowd of thousands of enthusiasts and dignitaries at the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame Saturday night.......
For those who worried Polaris would severely alter the legend, fear not: the new 2014 Indians harken back to a bygone era of motorcycling.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.motorcycle.com ...
The Ural has the classic look because it is still a copy of a 1938 BMW, and it has never been changed.
You can even see the grind marks on the front fenders of where they sanded it smooth.
It’s called becoming a mrmber of the Broken Angels Motorcycle Club (as in skin and bones). Happened to me on the day before Memorial Day in1988 on a BMW R75/5. I’ve looked at a lot of new BMW bikes since but never touched or ridden one.
LOL!
I’ve always lusted after BMW Motorcycles, too, but after that Honda incident, I also passed on the opportunity, even when I had the money to buy one.
I had a customer, who was Chief Custodian of Harley-Davidson, and he had 14 new, classic, pristine Harleys in his pole barn. He wanted to trade me 2 of them for labor and materials on some jobs, but sadly I had to turn him down, as I couldn’t pay my Family Farm’s business (closed 11/1/11 after 22yrs) bills with them.
The whole v-twin market....used to be the statement of non-conformity. It has now become the establishment. The ultimate act of conformity.
When I was a kid in the 50s there was a comic book hero that traveled around on an Indian.
Daimler made the first V-Twin in 1889 for boats. Indian set theirs at 42 degrees and fond it had better performance.
Harley has their V-Twin set to 45 degrees.
Geez, you’d think I wrote a paper on this for my MBA or something....oh wait, I did.
They found....they may have fond also, I just don’t have any facts to back up that statement.
Yes it is definitely a classic.
Too crowded in here- time to move on to something else. I went to 3 cylinder inline. Three REALLY BIG cylinders. I get friendly curiosity from the v-twin folks and the crotch rocket crowd both.
Suits me. Hell, I wave at mopeds. I'm a friendly guy. :-)
Yep. That is why I bought a Triumph inline 2300cc triple. I do like the Harleys though, I just wish that had more power.....a LOT more power.
You got a Rocket too? Cool!
LOVE IT. I put some Beetle Bags on it. Just needs GPS. It’s a four-unit course in agressive counter-steering. :-)
The previous owner told me to budget time in any trip for people who come up and want to talk about it. He wasn’t kidding.
Stationed in Panama while in the Army back in 69 - 72, I had a 250 Honda and roomed with two guys who had the 305 Scramblers.....I was transfered out of the unit around 6/70 and never saw or heard from them again until about 3 years ago (after 40 years) when one of the guys saw my post on a Panama Canal blogsite and contacted me........That was a really cool experience.
Yeah, lots of countersteering. I am going to install a Bridgestone exedra 130/70 front tire this week and that is supposed to improve the handling significantly.....we will see. I already have the Bridgestone Excedra rear tire which is .49 inches taller than the stock metz. It is my favorite rear tire so far (metz and avons) and it is a lot cheaper.
As far as the Indian goes.......yawn. Any bike with less than 100 hp is not worth riding unless it is a an off road or dual sport.
You better be close. Last I heard they started at around 26K.
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