AMA STYLE: WORKHORSE’S SUPERBIKE-INSPIRED INDIAN FTR 1200

[weeksy]

https://www.bikeexif.com/custom-indian-ftr-1200

From the heights of yesterdays fun Kwak..... we go to.... well... this.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Yuck

[demographic]

Dunno really, I don't hate it but I reckon were gonna have to stop using the term "Lobsterback Bends" and move onto "Millipede Back" bends for these exhausts now.

I get the reason sometimes as small shops won't have the forms to bend the pipe for every radius but soke of em are getting silly now.

[KungFooBob]

I was going to post that the otherday, I like it. Especially the Rota stylee wheels.

I can't get my head around the 4D brakes tho', how does the middle pad provide any friction, unless the discs slide on the carriers?

[Count Steer]

Apart from the paint job and the wheels (they look like they have wheel trims clipped on) I erm, quite like it.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I was going to post that the otherday, I like it. Especially the Rota stylee wheels.

I can't get my head around the 4D brakes tho', how does the middle pad provide any friction, unless the discs slide on the carriers?

THey were gonna be the next greatest thing at one point weren't they? There was some Italian superbike which had them in all the mags in the late 90s.

The discs slide too yeah, they're pretty common on aircraft.

I really like the wheels too. I'm not sure which sort of bike they're "meant" to go on, I'm not even sure they look right here, but I reckon they're cool.

[MingtheMerciless]

No huge gap in the frame, no brown seat, I like.

[DefTrap]

(other than the stoopid anodising) Looks tastefully half finished and I like it.
It just needs a bit of dirt on it to make it look like someone's actually ridden it.

[mangocrazy]

As an exercise in pointlessness, it wins. The riding position would be excrutiating. Just look at the bars/seat/footrest relationship and imagine how you'd have to contort yourself to fit. And those bloody exhaust pipes. Those aren't difficult bends to make with the right gear, and the performance improvement would be noticeable on a dyno. Every internal weld adds a tiny impediment to airflow, no matter how skilled the welder. And the brakes are a perfect example of doing it differently, but not quite as well as you could otherwise do it. And I really do not see the point of the wheels.

Or, indeed, 90% of the bike.

[MrLongbeard]

Totes stupid and unfinished, I love it

[Taipan]

I can't help but think of a Vmax when I look at it!?!?

[Skub]

No two lumps of it hanging the one road.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

No two lumps of it hanging the one road.

I've read that half a dozen times and I've no idea what you mean.

[Skub]

No two lumps of it hanging the one road.

I've read that half a dozen times and I've no idea what you mean.

Longhand for shapeless.

[Supermofo]

I like Indian FTRs. I don't like this. Yuck