@@rickiekm coming from kawasaki and ducati. Was concerned about indian and hd reliability considering one or other. Sounds like much less issues with Indian. I would be scared to try to go multi state on even a new road glide
95°?, I don’t even look out the window when it’s above 90 let alone go out on a motorcycle for any length of time. I don’t remember how many years ago the last time it hit 95° here in Western Pennsylvania. It did hit 100° twice in my lifetime that I can remember, 1988… do you get much glare off of the chrome on top of the gas tank? I was getting a lot of glare from a couple of my motorcycles, especially the gas cap, I would see a reflection of the gas, cap or the chrome around the gas cap on windshield and it was distracting.. how long have you had that belt drive to the rear wheel on this machine? Is that the original belt at 50,000 miles? do the valves have self adjusting or do you have to have the valves adjusted manually. I looked at a Kawasaki Vulcan voyager with soft adjusting valves. That engine sounded like castanets. I didn’t buy the bike just for that reason… The biggest issue I would have, what is the heat coming off of the engine like? I test Road and FJR 1300, it was an oven.. I did not buy that machine because it was burning. My shins Rumaih Kevlar pants on that 85° day. I took that bike for a half hour test ride. I also had a Honda 700 saber they put out so much heat. I could feel the heat through my aerostich suit shins on a50° day.. are there any periodic adjustments needed for things like primary chain if it has a primary chain? Does this machine have one throttlebody or two separate throttle bodies? One of these machines just came up for sale today on craigslist here in western Pennsylvania. I am a motorcycle j junkie, I’m riding a Yamaha royal star venture right now, my third, Venture since 1986. I keep going back to Venture‘s. I tried a GL 1800 Goldwing, went back to a venture then I try to BMW K 1200 LT, I went back to a venture.. never had a Harley, I just don’t like the anything they make, I wish they made something I liked.. I do like the moto guzzi’s.. had of em so far, But they all seem to be made for people that are 5’8” tall or less. I am 5’11”, and they are just a little snug in the leg room department… I think the best looking cruiser bikes out there right now, or the Indians. I never even sat on one, but I was offered a job when I was in the Indian shop a few weeks ago. I used to work as a mechanic, and as a salesman for over 20 years part time in several different Japanese shops around Pittsburgh back in the late 70s through the 90s. i’m done working, let someone else pull the wagon for a change.. Right now I’m looking for my 110th motorcycle. May be an Indian.
Hey Rickie, now that's how a Mustang or a Mach1 is supposed to sound!!! A good friend of mine had one of those back in the day... yours looks immaculate, great pick up there. If you want to tone it down just turn up your music hahahahaha. Seriously though... great machine, I'd leave it just like that... well maybe change out those wheels for something in black I have never liked machined finished wheels for whatever reason. I'm getting side tracked lol
Sweet hot rod! They have exhaust systems that allow you to switch between the straight pipe exhaust and mufflered exhaust. Sounds cool but for a relaxing cruise I could see how that could be loud.
Sound good but i agree it need something. . I thank Resonators would make it deeper i thank . If had Muffler shop that would let try couple different before they Permanently mounted them
What is it with the woeful suspension and seating comfortability that indian keep producing year after year? It's like they don't listen to customer feed back.... plus the pipes are ridiculously long ..also bug outs in electronics... nice looking bike but just can't hand over the coin on this one way to many bugs to fix
It's not an Indian, it's a Polaris. Indian went out of business in 1953. It's like Polaris woke up one day and said "hey i feel like im an indian." So though a series of operational and legsl nomenclature changes, Polaris transitioned into an Indian. It's a transsexual motorcycle. Harley really doesn't like him. Harley is just regular homosexual. He feels like Polaris is trying to one up him with all the girly flamboyance
Michigan roads have improved a lot over the past couple of years, but for some reason they haven’t got around to the roads in the Mt. Clemens area. It was hard to find good pavement to ride on.
Lived in Michigan my entire life. Trust me they’re much better roads than that and these roads are in the countryside beautiful beautiful scenery, but they’re not easily known I put this. They’re hard to find even myself. I have a hard time finding them because it does the rolling hills and turning and twisting, and there’s really no names for these roads there up north somewhere north of country road north of Thompsonville
Just about to turn 100k miles on my '14 Chieftain and it runs better than new. A gentleman from the Indian forums (Larry) recently turned over 500,000 miles on his '14 before he totaled it hitting a deer. The thunderstroke engines are bulletproof.
500k miles? In 10 yrs? That is over 46k miles per yr!!!! That cant be real. If true that is incredible. Would any harley be able to make this mileage? Reading the forum post now. Hope he recovers
One thing to add, just got back from ride. The microphone disconnects from camera if camera powered down :-( would think it would automatically connect again, could be that the microphone auto shuts down.
Interesting, I just got the action 4 last week, I already had mic 2. I mounted my microphone on the inside of chin guard, used magnetic tape stuck on inside with the magnet from DJI. Might get the neck mount.
I see in ur past comments were to get the parts...but on the battery tender end...not the phone cord end....but the other end...were do u get that wire
So I'm not sure how accurate this video is since you have a classic style fairing and the two bikes in the showroom have the newer fairing. But still interesting. I'd love to get the reduced reach bars for my Chieftain Dark Horse, but they're not making them in black anymore. :(
If you have the newer style fairing, you should have similar handlebars, but as you said, they aren't making the reduced reach bars any more. I had to call around to find mine.
Thanks for the video it’ll help a lot when changing bars on my missus Cheif darkhorse 👌. One question you probably can answer. Will that driver back rest you got on the chieftain also fit on the chief? When sesrching amazone or ebay for a driver back rest for the chief darkhorse the results are mixed 🙄. Any insights in this would be apreciated 😃.
