2023 and its seasons are flying by as fast as the miles you clock up on your bike! .
Of course, we always encourage you to ride safe – but when it comes to our magazine, everyone at Indian Motorcycle is forging ahead at full speed. The needles are jumping into the red on the racetrack with our champions Tyler O’Hara and Jeremy McWilliams racing FTRs, once again dominating the Super Hooligan road race championship in the US. Jared Mees is also notching up victories on his FTR as quickly as laps, flat out in the American Flat Track championship with his eye on a ninth title in this category. We’re both delighted and proud to see how well the FTR is performing on and off-road – and to see more and more of you riding one. Meanwhile when it comes to the big bikes, the output of the Challenger RR’s big PowerPlus engine blew away a select handful of journalists when they unleashed all its horses on the Anglesey circuit in the UK.
And headed up by Gary Gray, our racing team has taken up the challenge of producing 29 replicas of the bike that won King of the Baggers in the US in 2022, for lovers of high-speed track racing everywhere. It’s a further demonstration of the excellent DNA that’s gone into the liquid-cooled PowerPlus engine fitted on Pursuit and Challenger models. Another noteworthy performance is that of the recently-launched Sport Chief.
It’s made an acclaimed entry into the eye-catching Club Style genre, becoming the new flagship model in the category. The level of equipment that comes as standard on this machine has surprised connoisseurs – and become a real source of inspiration for a whole host of choppers all over the world.
Meeting our people in the many countries where Indian Motorcycle is circulated is an opportunity for me to realise just how many activities, events and meets have grown up under the Indian Motorcycle banner; hundreds of owners turn up at all of them, getting together and sharing their enthusiasm. All these events bear witness to the diversity and increasing influence of the Indian Motorcycle community, motivating our R&D and Design teams to get to work behind the scenes as they strive to expand their creative horizons still further. They’re pulling all the stops out to prepare the future – for your enjoyment, and for that of all those joining Indian Motorcycle day after day.
Thanks for riding with us!
Grant Bester
Vice-President Indian Motorcycle International
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