{"id":2335,"date":"2018-10-01T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2018-09-30T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:49:57","slug":"indian-reveal-the-ftr1200-at-intermot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/indian-reveal-the-ftr1200-at-intermot\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Reveal the FTR1200 at Intermot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian’s FTR1200 isn’t the first water-cooled DOHC V-twin from a major American manufacturer, but don’t get carried away with the idea that this new vision of an American sport bike has anything in common with Harley’s VR except some internal dimensions \u2013 which are surprisingly familiar.<\/p>\n

This 120hp \/ 115Nm motor has been slotted into a trellis tube frame, has an agile 26.3\u00b0 rake with a stable 130mm trail, tips the scales at just 225kg and will lean into corners at very un-American 43-degrees.<\/p>\n

It sits somewhere between the XR1200 and the Muscle in Harley’s archives and Indian will be hoping that it makes more of an impact that either of those.<\/p>\n

The response has been positive so far, and the FTR750 picking up the baton from Harley’s XR750 on American’s flat track circuits with victory after victory has given it a fairy tale profile that money alone could not buy.<\/p>\n

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It’s worth getting the line drawings out of the way first because they’ve been in the public domain a while already, and they are useful because they show the design process that has gone into the new street bike \u2013 sorry, bikes: there are two.<\/p>\n

And once you’ve pored over those, check out the pics of the any-colour-as-long-as-it’s-Thunder-Black FTR1200 with non-adjustable suspension and one of the the only recognisable bits of Scout \u2013 the speedometer.<\/p>\n