I haven't owned a bike for years, but the taste for old machines remains in my mouth. When I was a lad I was occasionally privileged to borrow a couple of the veteran Indians which were still around, held together with shade-tree contrivances which permitted them to keep running after a fashion.
So there a nostalgic pleasure in learning that someone else is interested in the "Indian" marque -- namely Polaris Industries (ATVs, Victory motorcycles made just a few miles from Camp J). They'll certainly be as over-gadgeted, over-lawyered, and over-priced as the other crap we're we're offered by vehicle makers, but maybe they'll at least preserve the neat old logo.
It's probably futile to hope they'll re-create anything as elegant as this.
It hurts my head to calculate the number of owners of the Indian bike name over the decades, certainly a number greater than Liz Taylor's husband tally.
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*This is unreasonably obscure for anyone not a serious scholar of the Plains Indian Wars. Nevertheless, I have suggested to Polaris that it should be the name of its first model.
2 comments:
My Dad learned to ride on a '49 Indian. Running fireworks from WVA to PA with hot pipes makes for an interesting story.
That sounds like a helluva good variation on the "Thunder Road" theme. Why don't you write it?
Jim
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