f you had two men working 16-hour workdays for 60 days in a row, do you know what you would get? You’d get the motorcycle that you see here on the pages of TORQUE Magazine. When JC Mason of Rolling Art Custom Paint and Mike Porham of CMP Motorcycles in Phoenix, Arizona, set out to build this Challenger, that was exactly the amount of time that they had to complete this project and make it to Sturgis.
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Of all the motorcycles on the market to choose from, it is nice to find a brand that seems to check all of the boxes you look for in a motorcycle. Indian’s Challenger certainly has made a wave in the performance industry with unique standards like an integrated driveline (this means that the transmission and engine are unit construction), single coil over mono shock in the rear, and inverted forks (standard front) with Brembo calipers on both ends (dual front
radial mount calipers). It is easy to see why JC chose the Challenger platform for his muse. In addition to the equipment that the Indian came with in stock form, JC wanted to be the first in the nation [ahem’…the world] to turbocharge a Challenger. For this, he went straight to Mike over at CMP Motorcycles. The two got straight to work fashioning a turbo kit that didn’t exist for a motorcycle that had never been turboed before. This meant that there were tons of
