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From The Hip

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MANAGING EDITOR

Bruce Mike

All The News That Fits Road Rash

REVIEW WRANGLER David Soderholm

COLUMNISTS Paul Berglund Thomas Day David Harrington

Geezer With A Grudge Looks Cool, But It’s Not

CONTRIBUTORS Guido Ebert Harry Martin Sev Pearman

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Bike Review 2017 Indian Roadmaster

By Bruce Mike

omething I have always counted on to get me through a long Minnesota winter is Motorcycle Swap Meets. Unfortunately, thanks to Craig’s List and ebay, they seem to be happening less and less. This makes me sad because I like everything about a good Swap Meet. The atmosphere, the camaraderie, the bad food, the negotiating, and the piles and piles of stuff.

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Over the years I have bought way more stuff than I ever sold and many of my purchases were of things I didn’t need or didn’t work for the application I had intended. It didn’t matter. At the time I was making the purchase I was convinced it was a great idea. I had visions of, and great ideas for, some amazing projects. I have also bought a lot of tools and parts that were put to good use. I have no Swap Meet regrets.

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I recently attended a Swap Meet in Humboldt Iowa. It was the 26th Annual Iowa Classic Motorcycle and Scooter Swap Meet. I was excited because I figured if it has been around for 26 years it has to be a good one. The goal was mini bikes and mini bike parts. There is a group of us who go to Vintage Torque Fest the first weekend in May and the best way to get around the Dubuque County Fairgrounds is on a mini bike.

We left St. Paul for Humboldt at noon on a Friday. The Swap Meet started at noon and we figured with the three hour drive we would get there right after all the vendors set up. You don’t want to show up at the end of a Swap Meet because then you miss out on all the best deals. The plan was to get there and poke around for a couple of hours and head back home. We got there at about 3:30 and had seen everything by 4:00. It was by far the saddest Swap Meet I had ever attended.

There were a couple of Cushmans, a couple of Honda Trail 70s, a couple of Honda Z50s, a couple of Whizzers, a couple of Doodle Bugs and a few other small displacement motorcycles. There were a few assorted parts, some miscellaneous flea market kind of stuff and a guy selling used, very bald, motorcycle tires for $8 a piece. The one thing that caught my eye was a Yamaha BW80 with a brand new Lifan motor in it. Perfect Torque Fest transportation. The little bike was sitting in the middle of the floor with no price on it. I patiently tracked the guy down who was selling it and got a price. I tried offering him less but he was firm. It was a good price so I didn’t push it. As soon as I agreed to buy it, I started getting the stories attached to it. Thankfully, my friend Rick was there who will chat and listen to anyone, about anything, for however long is necessary. While they were yacking, I took it outside, got it running and rode it around the fairgrounds. I love little motorcycles. We hung around till around 6:00 and no new vendors showed up. From talking to one of the organizers and some of the vendors that were there, they were surprised by the low turnout. They said it was usually packed with stuff from wall-to-wall. I’d hate to see Swap Meets fade away. They are a much more interesting way to buy things than shopping on the internet. The characters you meet are worth the price of admission.

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All The News That Fits Daytona TT

on online by searching Kyle Katsandris.

The historic re-ignition of the battle between Harley Davidson and Indian began in earnest late March with the American Flat Track (AFT) season opener at the all-new Daytona TT. The race held in conjunction with Daytona Bike Week featured an all-new 0.6-mile TT course built in the infield portion of the Daytona Speedway. The AFT Twins race was the stage for the first H-D vs. Indian showdown in over 50 years and the return of twin cylinder bikes to the top class of the TT race.

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Indian factory rider Jared Mees got off to a great start and led the entire race on the allnew Indian Scout FTR 750. He beat his teammate Bryan Smith, also on a factory Indian FTR750, by a 9 second margin for a convincing win. He also made history by being the first Indian to win at Daytona since Floyd Emde won the Daytona 200 in 1948. The top Harley-Davidson in the field was piloted by factory rider Jake Johnson to a respectable fourth aboard the all-new Harley-Davidson XG750R, the replacement to the venerable XR750. With the gauntlet now thrown by Indian, we expect the race season to produce some excellent racing action. The local connection to the race was Nick Mataya (Go Moto) and Andrew Hook (Honda Town) represented Minnesota in the AFT Singles races. Both made it to the Semi-Final heat races, but didn’t place high enough to transfer to the main.

Again? In what will inevitably cause some déjà vu, the Excelsior Henderson Motorcycles brand is up for sale again. For those who weren’t around or don’t remember, the brand was revived by brothers, Dave and Dan Hanlon, and based out of Belle Plaine, MN in the 1990s. They produced a new version Excelsior Henderson Super X motorcycle, which tried to capitalize on the booming heavyweight cruiser market of the time. The $18,500 Super X was aimed as a shot across the bow of Harley-Davidson during heady times of the mid 1990’s. But a little less than 2,000 were produced before the company went out of business in 1999. As part of the bankruptcy the facilities and intellectual property were sold off. The failure of the brand remains a sore spot with many investors and enthusiasts. A Florida investment group, the

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suspiciously named E-H Partners, bought much of the Excelsior Henderson assets including the trademark, but bike production never resumed. That corporation was dissolved in 2006, and details are sparse on how the current owners came to own the trademark. The current owner Aaron, Bell International is offering the brand’s intellectual property for sale as an “opportunity” to revive the brand.

1st Fatality of the Year Minnesota saw the first motorcyclist fatality of the year on March 5th in Redwood County. According to the Redwood County Sheriffs Department the crash happened Sunday, March 5th around 6 p.m. in Sanborn. Redwood County is located in the Southwest portion of the state and is best know as the home of Walnut Grove of Little House on the Prairie fame. Sanborn in located along Highway 14.

The 60-year-old rider was on a curve when he crashed into the ditch. The rider was not wearing a helmet, according to authorities. No details further details as to the cause were released at this time. This is the second earliest motorcycle fatality ever in Minnesota. The earliest motorcycle death ever in Minnesota happened Feb. 23, 2002. The first motorcycle fatality last season happened March 7. The total fatalities for 2015 were 61 for the year. 2016 crash statistics have not yet been

released as of yet.

Go Big or Go Home A video of a rider jumping a California freeway made the rounds on social media recently. The video was originally posted to Instagram showed an unidentified rider jumping Highway 60 in Riverside County California. The rider, while not confirmed, is linked to person identified as Kyle Katsandris. The video shows some prep work with the freestyle MX riders favorite weapon, the flat spade, a couple previews of the approach to the jump, and the rider airing it out over the roughly 60 foot gap in the between hills along Highway 60. The California Department of Transportation put out a statement that a highway crew identified the location of the jump in the video. They dismantled the ramp and blocked access to the area to prevent others from attempting copycat stunts. “We want to impress upon people that this was a dangerous stunt and somebody could have lost their life on that highway,” CalTrans spokeswoman Terri Kasinga told the Los Angeles Times. “This could have turned into a tragic situation and we hope never to see this again.” The California Highway Patrol and Riverside County Sheriff ’s Department said they are investigating the incident, but they felt it is unlikely that anyone will be prosecuted due to the rider’s face being obscured by a helmet.

A recent video of an Indian rider’s refusal to relinquish his bike to a tow truck went viral on social media. The rider, identified as Mohammad Nouman, was being cited by traffic enforcement in the Indian city of Kanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, was incensed by the citation and refused to pay the fine. He had parked in a restricted parking area. A traffic police spokesman told the Times of India, “The cops then warned him that if he will not pay the fine his motorbike would be towed away and taken to the traffic police lines. The cops chained his bike with the traffic crane and were about to tow the vehicle, Nouman jumped and sat on the bike.” The truck pulls away with Nouman perched on his bike as it dangled from the back of the tow truck. The video captures Nouman hanging on the bike as the two truck heads towards impound. It appears to have been captured on a cell phone by another motorist. Police said Nouman later apologized and paid the fine to get his motorcycle released. This is another video easily found online if you want to see it for yourself by searching Mohammad Nouman + motorcycle in your search engine of choice.

NUVIZ Heads Up Display NUVIZ announced that the company has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Pierer Industrie AG.

The latest investment brings NUVIZ’s funding total to over $9M in equity financing and venture debt ahead of the launch of the company’s head-up display technology and connected riding solutions in the first half of 2017. NUVIZ is innovating the future of connected motorcycle riding and will soon unveil the first helmet mounted HUD to offer a seamless and intuitive experience for riders to navigate, communicate, and capture videos or photos - all while keeping their focus on the road. It‘s a solution that is long overdue, making the NUVIZ HUD one of the most anticipated motorcycle products of the year.

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Geezer With A Grudge

Looks Cool, But It’s Not

By Thomas Day

ashion is one of the many human ideas that is sometimes described as something you can identify with “common sense.” One of my personal heroes, Betrand Russell, called common sense “the metaphysics of savages” and fashion proves him right, repeatedly. Nothing about fashion follows the fundamental (and grossly oversimplified) concept of economic supply and demand, for example. For practically everything fashionable, there is no demand at all until some marketing wizard convinces a fair collection of fools that they desperately need some useless product that will pretend to enhance their lifestyle but will add nothing more than one more pile of crap to put in the hoard of useless crap. All you have to do is look around you at the clothes people are wearing, the cars they are driving, and the silly junk they think is essential to their survival and you’ll know how idiotic fashion really is. The grossly misnamed “smart phones,” for example, regularly costing $75-100 per month are one of the silliest products that anyone ever flushed cash into. Unless you have a business that requires constant communication with customers or employees (a dope dealer, for instance), a cell phone is a mindless distraction at least 99.999% of the time. A cell phone doubles as a low resolution camera, a fuzzy, shaky video camera with crap audio, a GPS loaded with distracting advertisements, and the easiest way to allow hackers access to your personal finances (next to stringing your life’s savings into a belt and wearing it everywhere you go). Possessing a product this flawed is at least 30 IQ points below stupid. Paying a monthly rate for this “service” proves that “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public” or any other nation’s marching morons. There are a multitude of similarly idiotic products, but this rant is really about how fashion and engineering can not occupy the same space. An obvious example would be the waddle-inducing pants-on-the-ground hip hop costume fad. The geniuses who came up with this sales pitch must have had stock in for-profit-prisons.

almost every performance-based value. You can add up the pluses and minuses and use some sort of logic to pit one motorcycle against another. In every purchase, there is some emotion involved but if function is what is driving your purchase you can suppress those emotional misdirectors until the decision is made.

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If you’ve ever seen a gangbanger try to run from the cops while trying to hold his pants up, you know what I’m talking about. Serious comedy. Look under “stupid” in the dictionary and you’ll see a picture of some kid wearing his jeans wrapped around his knees. [For that matter, what kind of macho rock and roller or R&B artist would get anywhere near something as lame sounding as “hip hop?” Is there a hip hop group called “Peter Rabbit” or “Easter Bunny?” Don’t get me started.] When I bought my WR250X, I didn’t notice that the previous owner was one of the robot children who follows fashion wherever that pack of fools might lead. My wife spotted and commented on the droopy pants aspect of his appearance, but I was too occupied with the motorcycle to register that valuable piece of buyer-beware information. I did notice the hacked up exhaust pipe and priced the bike accordingly. I missed the butchered front and rear fenders. The baggy cut me a break, I was sick and it was January. My reasons for wanting to own a WR250X was as close to totally functional as my limited mental resources allows: fuel injection so the bike will start under all weather and altitude conditions, fuel economy, light and maneuverable for city traffic, versatile, and long suspension for the future state of decay that our road maintenance promises. What the bike looked like was not in my buying equation. It should have been, but it wasn’t.

Fashion is the polar opposite of the elegance of mathematical analysis. If you’re buying a motorcycle on the low standards of fashion, you’re using the kind of touchy-feely decision making process women use when they buy shoes that are unfit for walking. I would hesitate to say this if I gave a damn about political correctness, but if fashion is what drives you to a particular motorcycle it’s not a “guy thing” that is putting you on two wheels. At best, you’re making the same kind of statement on your motorcycle that you probably make with your golfing attire. In the United States, most motorcyclists and the rest of our fellow citizens regard motorcycles as recreational vehicles. We don’t commute on our motorcycles. We don’t use them for daily transportation. We don’t even use the most mobile, quickest vehicles on the road for messenger delivery service. We’re humiliated into toy status by bicycles, even in that obvious application. As toys, motorcycles have a huge collection of disadvantages, culturally and practically. The most apparent is risk vs. reward. The risk of being a marginally-skilled hobby motorcyclist is huge, with our consistent overrepresentation in highway fatalities being a giant red flag waved to everyone involved in highway safety. The re-

ward for the rider who puts on 100 to 1,000 miles a year is microscopic and grossly out of proportion to the risk. I have seriously suggested that the people I’ve known who ride that seldom that they pull the fluids from their bike and build a nice stand for it in their living room or den (if they are rich enough to have a den). That sort of rider is exactly the kind of person who is likely to be influenced by fashion when selecting his motorcycle and exactly the kind of person who is likely to be killed by the many serious functional flaws in a fashionable motorcycle. For that matter, this category of rider is likely to select (or avoid) protective gear that is fashionable but useless, too. Literally, everything about fashionable motorcycling contributes to our crap safety statistics and heads us all down the path of becoming true recreational vehicles and illegal on public roads. And this is where I suggest to you that your silly-assed hippobike or your shade-tree-mechanic-mangled modifications to a perfectly useful motorcycle only looks cool to the uninformed and incompetent. In other words, you think it looks cool, but it’s not. The only good thing about fashion is that it is always temporary. Droopy pants may be cool today, but they are going to look a whole lot dumber than bell-bottoms tomorrow. Your gangster-wannabe buddies might think your 800 pound hippo-relic is cool today, but nobody is going to want that useless piece of crap tomorrow because it is functionless and as silly looking as droopy pants. MMM

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The 2017 Indian Roadm T

By David Soderholm

he flagship. The top dog. The grand poohbah. This is what Polaris intended the 2017 Indian Roadmaster with RCS to be. This is American touring luxury at its most decadent. That means spoiling its riders with a plethora of luxurious and useful touring features that make this thing hard to pull into a parking spot at the end of the ride. It will be much preferred for you to pull up to the gas pump, refill and hit destinations you haven’t seen yet. It’s comfy, capable, nostalgic and cool. The new star of the show in 2017 is the RCS (Ride Command System). This is a brand new integrated infotainment package that sits midship between the bars in a beautifully finished handlebar fairing. It includes a high resolution 7 inch glove friendly touch screen that is big, bright and colorful. It’s mounted up high just under the windscreen and is easy to use and reference at a glance without looking very far down from your normal line of sight. It can be run without taking your hands off the bars with controls mounted at the grips. It’s very smart phone like in its function and layout, including things like a pinch to zoom function. The screen is big enough that they even included side by side functionality to display say nav and radio together. Below the screen are 5 easily used rubber buttons that jump you directly to main functions without navigating menus. Smartphone and communicator pairing are simple and allow full phone function in this system. It’s fast functioning and easy to navigate. RCS offers an amazing amount of functions. Included in the list; clock, ambient air temperature, heading, audio information display, Vehicle Status (tire pressure, voltage, engine hours, oil change), Vehicle Info (speed, fuel range, RPM, gear position), Dual Trip Meters (fuel range, miles, average fuel economy, instantaneous fuel economy time, average speed), Ride Data (heading, moving time, stop time, altitude, altitude change), Bluetooth connectivity for phone and headset, Map/Navigation. I used the map function quite a bit and left that up on the screen. I often wander around new areas and this gave me a great overview of the road layouts around me and made changes of route very easy to make. Using gps functions works fine, but having a smartphone paired made using Google Maps easy and more familiar to me.

She is a gleaming mile-eater loaded with any and every accessory for the touring rider. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the stereo portion of the system. The Roadmaster stereo is very powerful. It’s got 200 watts, and the sound comes through exceptionally loud and clear when riding – even on a freeway. Phone pairing makes options for you endless. Throw on Pandora or your favorite playlist, listen to your favorite podcasts or whatever strikes your fancy. AM / FM / Weather Band are also included. Control it all at the bars… fantastic. The Roadmaster with acres of gleaming chrome and thick glossy paint is quite striking to look at — the styling being a beautiful combination of retro classic with modern quality. It looks like and is a massive motorcycle — 944 lbs fully fueled. Storage capacity seems endless and has remote locking with interior lighting. Hoisting it off the side stand is quite the lift. The weight is intimidating at this point. Seating is uber comfortable and the dash is the perfect distance away to use and see easily.

Start the motor and the smoothness is comforting. This is a 111 cubic inch V-twin and there’s no shaking going on here. Nothing vibrates, just a gentle background thump. Shift the smooth shifting six speed transmission into first, and you’re off. Fueling is excellent and the clutch has a buttery smooth uptake to get you rolling with little effort. Effortless huge torque is front and center and moves this massive bike from stops with ease. It does get warm around your legs though. This is a classic American low-rev V-twin engine. It’s a soothing low stress way to get around. Running down the road, the engine settles into the background and covering large distances in comfort is exceptionally easy. Wind management is excellent and as the electrically adjustable screen deploys, it opens up NACA ducts in the screen to keep cockpit wind buffet free. Nothing stresses you when riding down the road and you are coddled in convenience and comfort. Shifting up through the gears allows the bike to shed what seems like hundreds of pounds as speed increases. The Indian is built on a cast Aluminum Frame with an Integrated Air-Box. It’s exceptionally stiff and allowed the engineers the opportunity to build a handling platform with characteristics that are exceptional for a bike this size. Steering is light and direct and bends into corners with ease. I wouldn’t call it “nimble”, but it tracks easily on its intended line and has terrific ground clearance for its market segment. It’s not a sport bike, but my goodness is it ever refreshing and surprising given the heft that you initially lifted off of the side stand.

Photo by Sev Pearman

The new star of the show in 2017 is the RCS (Ride Command System).

Photo by Sev Pearman

lend to the solidity of the handling, lacking any sort of hinged feeling. Travel numbers are 4.7 inches front and 4.5 inches rear which is quite long in the cruiser / touring world. Having such a stiff frame allowed the suspension guys to focus on bump absorption and it shows. Bumps are smothered and erased under the wheels. Obviously all of this sizable goodness doesn’t come cheap. This is a big, luxuriously feature and tech packed to the gills kind of motorcycle. It also has exceptionally good fit and finish. Solid colors ring in at $29,599 and two tone colors like our test bike cost $30,399. Accessories are many and you can tweak away at your pleasure mixing combinations of uniqueness for your own bike. Indian has the unique distinction of being the only real competitor that has made a dent in its cross border rival’s market share from Cheddar land. Polaris knows this and shuttered Victory to focus on its flagship brand. The Indian lineup is filled with excellent motorcycles that are well thought out, engineered and like brand H have that rich nostalgic history baked in. This Indian is exceptional. How does brand H compare? We’ll find out next month by looking at this bikes direct competitor – the 2017 Ultra Limited with the new 107 ci Milwaukee 8. Tune in – I rode both…

Suspension is also well done, working in unison from front to back as you travel over bumps in the road. The chassis feels very unified front to back and helps

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master — Touring In XL I

By Sev Pearman

smooth action. It was never grabby.

picked up a pre-production press bike from Indian on a crisp October afternoon. Past MMM® editor Guido Ebert went over the Roadmaster and its many features. I asked the usual questions about what type of fuel, how to check oil level, tire pressure and so forth. His parting comment, “Just ride it. Get some seat time. Pile on the miles.” Challenge accepted.

Superb paint, chrome and attention to detail.

Downs 944-pound mass unforgiving of rider inattention or lapses in judgement. Oversize handlebar and levers sized only for giants. Audio fidelity a disappointment over 40mph.

First order of business was to gas her up. The Roadmaster swallows 5.5 gallons of premium (91 ROM) fuel. Top off tank, reset trip computer, punch lunch destination into the Ride Command® System (RCS) 7-inch screen and head for PIE! The Roadmaster is revamped for 2017 and is Indian’s flagship platform. She is a gleaming mile-eater loaded with any and every accessory for the touring rider. The Roadmaster comes with LED lighting, electrically-adjustable windshield, fairing lowers with air control, the Ride Command® interface; 200-watt, four speaker audio system; keyless ignition, cruise control, heated grips and seat, adjustable passenger floorboards, remotely lockable hard luggage, tire pressure sensors, ABS braking and more. Riders can personalize their bike with Indian accessories, chrome and bling. When it comes to motorcycling, we all have our opinions. One of my strongest, born out of decades of riding and reviewing many machines, is my preference for two-cylinder engines. Rolling northwest out of the Cities, I immediately fell in love with the Indian Vtwin. Vibration in the 111 cubic-inch motor is corralled to a pleasant thrumming by counter balancers. Large displacement plus long stroke equals torque and this twin delivers the goods. Hang on when twisting the throttle, because torque is prodigious at any engine speed, even off idle. Peak torque (rear wheel) is 107 ft-lbs at a sedate 2,700 rpms. For a “low tech” pushrod, 2-valve, air-cooled motor, horsepower is surprising, 76.6 hp (rear wheel) at 4,500 rpm. One invisible feature is the self-adjusting valve train. Less maintenance equals more riding, and we approve. One point for Indian. I liked the clutch action. It is light and provides good feel through the lever. This reduces fatigue on long rides as well as in heavy traffic. The gearbox is a 6-speed; 6th gear is an overdrive. Final drive is by toothed belt. Once into rural Wisconsin, I opened her up. Torque is such that shifting is optional. I would hap-

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This is American touring luxury at its most decadent. pily motor along in 5th, engine whirring and churning beneath me, forgetting that I had another ratio if I wanted to drop the engine speed further. There was no upshifting, searching for another gear. Two more points for the clutch and gearbox. The stock exhaust note is classic V-twin low rumble, the bass line of a beautiful mechanical symphony. I liked the tone at any engine speed and in all gears. For those owners that insist on “riding pirate”, Indian offers an optional Stage 1 exhaust and accessory exhaust tips. Baggers are built for travel and the Indian Roadmaster is ready to take you from Cape Cod to Cape Fear. With over 37 gallons of weatherproof, lockable storage between the top trunk, side bags, fairing and lowers, you and your passenger won’t need to fight for space. The rear bags and trunk are carpeted and free of rattles. The keyless bags are secured by solenoid, controlled by a button on the ignition fob. A second luggage button is found on the tank. This is convenient if you are already on the bike and your passenger wants to get in the luggage for one last thing. No need to get off the bike or dig the ignition fob out of your jacket or jeans. Nice.

The Ride Command® System is worthy of a review unto itself. Part GPS, part trip computer, part music center, the RCS combines all of these functions into a centrally-mounted unit. I’m not a “gadget guy” but this system is well thought out, allowing access and control to tons of vehicle, trip and audio information. The 7-inch screen is bright and easy to read, even in daylight. Map scale can be adjusted by the two finger “pinch/spread” technique familiar to anyone with a smart phone. On screen “buttons” can be selected while wearing gloves. Below the screen are five rubber buttons that instantly return you to the primary functions without having to back navigate through a sub-menu. Photo by Sev Pearman Polaris claims easy smartphone connectivity (untested) to Ride Loved the motor. Ample torque across the rev range in all gears.

Command® via a fairing compartment with cable at the top of the dash. I primarily used the navigation function and liked how it automatically zooms out at speed, and zooms in, adding detail, when you slow down for a town. The four-speaker audio system is nice. You can scan for radio stations, lock in your favorites, play your songs through your smartphone or enjoy the weather band, all controlled, with your gloves on, thru the Ride Command®. Audio fidelity was good in town, but I found it unsatisfactory at highway speeds. I tried changing windshield height, my body position and even tried different helmets. Maybe the audio system is designed for riders who don’t wear helmets? DISCLAIMER: I’ve never been a “tune rider”. I prefer to listen to the bike and my surroundings while I ride. Two other complaints. The oversized handlebar, grips and levers are sized for Yetis. I wear XXL gloves and even with the levers to their closest setting, I found it to be a reach from the grips to the levers. More noticeable is the 944-pound curb weight. You can’t escape it. During my first hundred miles, I almost capsized the big Roadmaster three times at slow speeds. You can’t fight the laws of physics. Keep your head up and the handlebar squared when steaming in to port. To be fair, once I recalibrated my brain to the 944-pound mass, I rode without further incident. I put over 1,000 miles on the Indian Roadmaster in a mix of city, rural highway and freeway riding. I came to appreciate her excellent balance, handling and road manners. The Ride Command® system is useful. If you are looking for a well-appointed, two-up luxury tourer, do yourself a favor and schedule a test ride on this American icon. It has been 64 years since an Indian Roadmaster rolled off an assembly line. Parent company Polaris may have taken their time, but they got it right. See you down the road.

Ups Loved the motor. Ample torque across the rev range in all gears. The clutch is a delight with a light pull and

SPECIFICATIONS 2017 INDIAN Roadmaster MSRP: $28,999 $30,399 as tested Warranty: 2-years, unlimited miles; plus 1-year roadside assistance ENGINE Type: 49º V-twin Bore x Stroke: 101mm x 113mm Displacement: 1,811cc (111 cu. in.) Compression Ratio: 9.5:1 Valve Train: OHC, 2-valve/cyl Fueling: Closed loop fuel injection Cooling: air cooled PERFORMANCE (rear-wheel) Horsepower: 76.6 hp @ 4,500 rpm Torque: 107 ft.-lbs @ 2,700 rpm DRIVE TRAIN Transmission: 6-speed Final Drive: Toothed Belt CHASSIS Front Suspension: 46mm fork, 4.7”travel Rear Suspension: Single shock w/ air adjust; 4.5” travel Front Brake: Dual 300mm floating rotors w/ 4-piston calipers; ABS Rear Brake: 300mm floating rotor w/ 2-piston caliper; ABS Front Tire: Dunlop Elite 3 130/90B16 73H Rear Tire: Dunlop Elite 3 180/60R16 80H DIMENSIONS Seat Height: 26.5” Wheelbase: 65.7” Rake: 25º Trail: 5.9” Curb Weight: 944-lbs Fuel Capacity: 5.5-gals inc. 1.0-gal reserve Colors: Thunder Black Burgundy Metallic Steel Gray over Thunder Black (tested) Willow Green over Ivory Cream Thunder Black over Ivory Cream

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Tales From The Road

Flash Back

By Paul Berglund MMMRoadTales@gmail.com

ere you around in the mid eighties when the world went nuts? Suddenly bikes got smaller, lighter, liquid cooling and radial tires. I was there and I was amazed. It was 1985 and I was standing in the show room of Bristow’s Kawasaki. I was confident that the 1100cc GPz I had parked outside was about as good as any of the new bikes on the show floor. The 900 Ninja was getting rave reviews from the motorcycle magazines, but how much better could it be than my bike? I was thinking about this when I came upon a strange motorcycle. It was in the cruiser food group, but it had shaft drive like a touring bike and the liquid cooled motor was directly out of the new Ninja sport bike. It didn’t try to look like a Harley, instead it was styled to look like a drag race bike. I was intrigued. One of the salesmen handed me the key and told me to take it for a ride. It was mind-bending. Clearly, I had ridden fast motorcycles before, but the 1985 Kawasaki ZL900 Eliminator redefined my perception of fast. I came back from that test ride a changed man. I wasn’t in the position to buy another bike especially a new bike. Plus, I’m not a cruiser kind of guy. So I went on with my life and made my way in the world. As the years passed, I still thought about the thrill of that test ride. One fall I sold all my motorcycles and used the money as part of the down payment on my first house. I didn’t need to sell them, it just seamed like it was the mature thing to do.

“Then I noticed that a 2 gallon gas tank just wasn’t any fun at all. Not being a cruiser guy, I just couldn’t get comfortable slouching down the road looking for gas stations”. I thought I had out-grown motorcycles and was ready to be an adult. That lasted till spring. My neighbor down the street was selling a brown KZ 1000 for $300, so I bought it. I was still a home-owning adult, but now I had a motorcycle again. I was back baby!

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It took me to mid summer to figure out that as a job-having, home-owning adult, I could afford a better motorcycle. One that wasn’t brown, or ratty looking. And, (I know you’re way ahead of me here, but it’s called drama or pacing so just read along.) that’s when I remembered the test ride on the 900 Eliminator again. HOWEVER, the internet and Craig’s List and Ebay didn’t exist yet in 1992. So what was a poor boy to do? We had paper. And the paper of choice was Cycle Trader. If you lived by a major city someone would print a paper version of (what would one day become) the motorcycle portion of Craig’s List and it was called Cycle Trader. It came out once a week and it only covered the local area. In the summer of 1992 there were no 900 Eliminators for sale in Minnesota. But you could send a paper check to the publisher of Cycle Trader and subscribe to a different town. My sister lived in southern Florida, so I got a subscription to the Miami Cycle Trader. It turns out that there were many 900 Eliminators for sale in Florida. So that fall I drove down there. The first one I looked at was the winner, and I bought it. I hauled it home and 7 years after that test ride, I owned an Eliminator. I only had a few weeks left to ride it before winter came, but I was happy.

KZ 1000 to cheer me up. It was another in a long line of KZ 1000s that I had owned, but this one was a 1979 KZ1000P police bike. I was back on a very familiar bike with the added benefit that when I was riding on the freeway, people would actually pull out of the fast lane and let me pass. Think about that for a moment, Minnesotan drivers would pull out of the fast (left) lane and into the right lane just to let me pass. That was enough to take my mind off having a dream bike. For a while. I moped down the roads on my police bike wishing I looked more like Erik Estrada for anther year. Then I got passed by my next dream bike. So it turns out Kawasaki didn’t quit making bikes after 1985. I had overlooked that fact. The 900 Ninja begot the 1000 Ninja and the 1000 Ninja begot the 1100 Ninja. I picked up the most recent Cycle Trader and there it was, in Minnetonka. So I drove over there. It was a black beast of a bike with the word “Ninja” written across the fairing in purple letters. The bike was owned by an old guy. He had

Spring came and I found, if you had a dream bike in college, put the poster of it on your wall, thought about it for years, looked for one for months and then drove across the country to buy one, it can be difficult to live up to those expectations. It still was as ridiculously fast as I remembered it. That was a stupid amount of fun. For a while. Then I noticed that a 2 gallon gas tank just wasn’t any fun at all. Not being a cruiser guy, I just couldn’t get comfortable slouching down the road looking for gas stations. I didn’t go to bars so I couldn’t even enjoy going bar hopping on a bike designed to be the ultimate bar hopping bike. I was torn. I ended up selling my dream bike just short of one year of ownership. I bought another

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the money, so he would buy what ever bike the motorcycle magazines said was the best motorcycle of that year. He owned two bikes at a time and staggered buying and selling them so each year he would buy a new bike. The 1100 Ninja would have ruled the world in 1985. But by the mid nineties it was no longer considered a sport bike. Sport bikes were smaller, lighter and faster around a race track. The 1100 Ninja was a great all around motorcycle, it just couldn’t win on the race track. On the street it was brutally fast. The moneyed elderly gentleman that stood before me now was nether brutal or fast. He didn’t get attached to his bikes, it wasn’t about the owning. When it came to selling, he wasn’t worried about losing money. He just loved the feeling of buying the best. If I had a thin mustache I would have been twirling it about then. So I bought it. That dream lasted ten years, till the next dream bike came along. MMM

Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly® #182 April 2017

Stray Dog

Movie Review

of Bill Murray. He has an extremely dim view of America considering he has made his life about defending it. “Stray Dog” follows Ron on his journey as he manages his RV park, helps families of fallen heroes, counsels his grandchildren, and attempts to gain citizenship for his Mexican wife.

Directed by Debra Granik Still Rolling Production (2014) Unrated, 100 minutes

By Tammy Wanchena

would like to share with you all a terrific movie I just discovered. I would like to, but I cannot. After four excruciating attempts to watch Stray Dog with an open mind, I have yet to make it through the entire two-hour film. But on a positive note, I did end up with a couple of wonderful naps.

There is no background track to distract or add emotion. There is no suspense. There are no bar fights or adversaries. This is simply one man’s life story that quite honestly wasn’t terribly interesting or deserving of a two-hour movie in my opinion. This documentary won a ton of awards, but the hour I made it through after my four days’ worth of attempts did not deem worthy in my mind.

Ron “Stray Dog” Hall is a Vietnam veteran dedicated to educating the world about his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is best described as a much heavier, tattooed and grizzled version

Gear Review

By Bruce Mike

arly last fall I was contacted by Peter Lundgren who owns and operates North American distribution of Corazzo which is described as urban riding apparel for scooter and motorcycle owners. Peter’s business is located in Mankato. He asked me if MMM would be interested in reviewing the Corazzo 6.0. I ran over to Scooterville, who sells all the Corazzo gear, and picked one up. I have a lot of riding gear, both leather and textile. What I choose to wear on any given ride usually depends on comfort, weather and how many pockets I need. I have everything from cheap to expensive but all of it I feel pretty safe in. I’m not much of a gear snob. The Corazzo 6.0 comes in black/black, blue/ tan and red/black. I got the red and black one. With the bright red color and the 3M Scotchlite reflective racing stripes, it offers great visibility. The overall look of the jacket is kind of european retro cool which I’m sure

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rains are pretty important to proper body function. So I like to protect mine every time I ride. These days it’s easier to do than ever because it’s hard to choose a poor helmet. They aren’t ALL great, but most of them are at least decent. That’s true regardless of price. But some helmets are exceptional, and the price reflects it. One of those helmet brands that are truly exceptional is Arai.

I would equate watching “Stray Dog” to how I felt sitting through church services at the age of nine. Time slows to a halt. I am desperately waiting for it to end. I know there is a message I should be paying attention to, but I am just praying for the end so I can eat doughnuts at social hour and get on with my Sunday. MMM

Corazzo 6.0 makes it a great fit in the scootering world. The jacket is made of 1000-denier Cordura which isn’t as abrasive resistant as high-end racing leathers but it’s better than most light to medium weight leathers. The jacket also comes with CE-standard Knox armor at the shoulders and elbows. The back protector is also Knox. This is much better armor than I thought I would get in a $289 jacket. The jacket comes with a zip-in liner that can also be worn as a lightweight jacket when you’re hanging out at the coffee shop. The liner has long cuffs with thumb holes that tuck nicely into your gloves to help keep the wind out of your sleeves. I don’t ride a scooter but all my bikes have a pretty upright riding position. This jacket has been great. It’s cut right so it doesn’t ride up in the back, the sleeves are long enough to keep my wrists covered and it’s actually pretty water resistant. With the liner in I found it quite comfortable on 35 to 45 degree rides. The warmest it’s been when wearing it is around

75 and I was comfortable with the vents open. I’ve got around 1800 miles on it and it keeps getting more comfortable every time I wear it. I think the Cordura takes awhile to break in. My only issues with this jacket have more to do with me than the jacket. It uses hook and loop (Velcro) in places where I would prefer snaps. It has a left side, inside pocket, for a cell phone that I wish was a little bigger and didn’t have a hook and loop fastener. I’ll be removing that fastener. The cuffs on the liner are a little too tight but I can stretch them out. I didn’t even try to open the vents while wearing it. Other than these minor annoyances, the quality and construction of this $289 jacket blow me away. I would recommend this jacket to anyone. If you want to see Corazzo gear in person, stop by Scooterville at 904 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404. Great shop run by great people. You can also find Corazzo online at corazzo.net. MMM

Arai Corsair X In this case the exceptional Arai is the new for 2016 Corsair X — Isle of Man TT edition. It’s their top of the line flagship race bucket, in the highly exclusive TT paint scheme. It is the exact same helmet that is so prominently seen in Motogp, WSBK and MotoAmerica grids. It’s the real deal.

By David Soderholm

The one point I am taking away from the film is that when a bamboo cage is carried into an elementary school classroom carrying a prisoner of war, what are the kids thinking? I did appreciate watching burly bikers country line dance. Oh yeah, and there were a lot of bikes to check out, which is the reason I tried to do this review in the first place.

Opening the box and lifting the Corsair-X out is special. It exudes quality from the moment you start the process. A Max Vision PinLock anti-fog lens and a tinted shield are included. The high quality box is bomb proof. The helmet bag has perfect stitching. Opening the helmet bag and seeing the Corsair-X makes you shout Hallelujah! Paint is perfect, clear coat is thick, hardware is exceptional with perfect action, the plush interior is perfectly stitched, the TT color scheme fantastic. It’s hand-built by Japanese craftsman and has the family name on the side. Getting the idea? Arai pioneered the helmet that fits perfectly by engineering 3 different helmet shapes and

customizable interiors and cheek pads for that perfect fit. The X shape is termed as an Intermediate Oval. The majority of American Heads will fit into this shape. The hand laid Super and Synthetic fiber shell is built on the R75 curve that is a continuous curve radius of 75mm or bigger and gives the helmet increased glance off ability. It’s immensely strong, and won’t catch and grab in a crash. All exterior vents will break away in a crash, absorbing energy and promoting glancing blows. Pulling the X on your head is a luxurious experience. The premium quality eco-pure liner (featuring adjustable padding) coddles your head in soft comfort. Nice firm even pressure all over your head. Looking through the face shield is immersive. The X has a truly expansive distortion free field of view – both top to bottom and side to side. From your eyes point of view, you’re just about helmetless. That shield has a brand new, foolproof nice working shield changing mechanism. No longer will you hope you aren’t breaking stuff below

the side pods installing a shield. The tethered pods pop off and the rest is pretty simple. That shield also has vents in it that work in conjunction with the redesigned venting on the helmet to flow a metric ton of air. With all vents open and moving down the road, you will shed cranial btu’s like crazy. It’s a clean quiet flow and positively shuts off when the vents are closed. Combine that with the included chin skirt and PinLock anti fog lens and you have a great winter helmet also. As we said earlier – Arai is a Super Premium helmet brand, but they aren’t cheap. They retail from $509.95 for the Vector 2 to $849.95 for solid color Corsair X’s. Our exclusive limited TT version rings in at $1059.95. Before you have a heart attack remember a couple things. One — discounts are always found on the internet. Two — with the hand built quality and comfort of an Arai… it’s worth it.

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Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly® #182 April 2017

What is a Scooter and Some Things That Aren’t, But We Still Like Them.

By David Harrington

ast month we ran through many of the scooter offerings for 2017. This month we’re going to muddle through a working definition of a scooter. Why? Because there an increasing number of choices that aren’t really scooters and aren’t really motorcycles but worthy of a look. There are also a growing number of small displacement motorcycles that attract scooterists. As this article is written with scooterists in mind, I think it’s safe to cover some of these clearly-not-scooter machines.

Scooters are not mopeds… Sometimes. I’m old and can clearly (some days) remember “real” mopeds from the 1960s and 1970s. They had pedals. Yes, they had engines of about 50cc, but they had working pedals. There aren’t many (if any) of these available new these days. What there are would be “legal” mopeds. Those scooters that meet the state (Minnesota) definition and don’t require a motorcycle endorsement and gain preferential parking. As of this writing Minnesota requires that the vehicle have an electric motor or liquid-fueled engine with piston displacement of 50cc or less AND operate on two brake horsepower or less AND reach a maximum speed of 30 MPH on a flat surface to be considered a moped. I’d like to take the following as a working definition of a scooter for our purposes: A two wheeled motor vehicle with a step through frame, wheels of 16 inches in diameter or less, an a engine/transmission unit that is part of the rear suspension, and some form of legshield/floorboard. A Vespa is a scooter, a Honda Cub is not. A Suzuki Burgman is a

scooter, a Honda NM4 is not. Close enough?

Let’s chat about the hopefully-here-someday Honda X-ADV. This is being touted as a cross-over scooter. Being big (750cc & 500 lbs.) doesn’t disqualify it from being a scooter according to our definition. The front wheel size (1 inch over 16) and the engine/ transmission mounting and configuration do. The X-ADV is kind of a step-through, it does offer underseat storage and it does have functional legshields/floorboards. As such, I believe Honda is hoping this will appeal to the maxi-scooter crowd who want something with MILD off-road capabilities and serious highway talents. I have to admit that the XADV does interest me, certainly more so than Honda’s NM4.

There is another powesports category that encompasses vehicles which are clearly not scooters but seem to have broad appeal to scooterists. Small displacement motorcycles. In the summer of 2016 I reviewed the Kymco K-Pipe (Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly August 2016) a machine that is clearly a motorcycle but sparks the interest of many scooterists. I would imagine that it’s the relatively light weight and heavy fun factor that does it. Sometimes it’s the retro appeal (in addition to weight and fun) that draws those of the scooter persuasion to a motorcycle. My personal favorite is the SYM Wolf Classic 150. It’s a very well-made machine that reminds me enough of my old 1973 Honda to generate serious nostalgia appeal. With a touch of luck, USA buyers will be seeing the SYM Wolf Classic 300 this season. This 278cc fuel injected retro styled motorcycle was dished

out to riders in Europe in 2015 at Intermot. It should be just the sort of motorcycle that scooterists would be interested in.

There are several Japanese small displacement machines that have been in the USA for a while with more coming this year. Honda’s Grom has been very popular and they also have a Rebel 300 (and 500) as well as the CB300f sporty bike. Yamaha brings up the very retro SR400 and the small cruiser – VStar 250. Kawasaki has been a major influencer in the small sporty bike market in the USA since 1986. The venerable Ninja 250 was the “go to” bike for many scooterists I know who were looking to expand their riding. LOTS of people have owned/continue to own them. Come on, raise your hand, I’m talking to you Krevin. The newer Ninja 300 is still a market force along with Kawasaki’s Grom-like Z125. There’s even a Versys X-300. Suzuki has one of the best small retro bikes out there in the TU250. They also offer the GW250 and now in 2017 the VanVan 200 that has great retro looks with multi-surface capabilities in a small displacement ride. Though arguably not small displacement, we can’t ignore the Royal Enfield phenomenon.

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They don’t just look retro, they ARE retro. I’ve owned a C5 Classic Bullet 500 and it was one of the most fun-to-ride city bikes I’ve ever experienced. It’s been my experience that most scooterists aren’t looking to replace their favorite scooter, they are looking to add to their stable and expand their riding options. I believe they are drawn to the easy handling lighter weight of small displacement motorcycles and often yearn for retro design elements. For me, they are ALL fun and I’m a believer that it doesn’t matter what you ride so long as you ride. Twin Cities scooterist David Harrington owns and operates JustGottaScoot.com

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April April 1st — Moon Motorsports Open House

3613 Chelsea Rd, Monticello, MN 55362 Deals, demo rides, door prizes, food, and drink.

April 7-8 — Leo’s South Open House 16375 Kenrick Ave, Lakeville.

April 8, 10:00 am — Defrost Your Nuts Run Mallalieu Inn, 414 Wisconsin St N, Hudson Time to thaw out from our winter freeze and open those throttles!

April 15 — Spring Flood Run

Shiners Bar and Grill, 157 St Croix Trail, Lakeland — floodrun.net All makes & models welcome! The Flood

Run has been a charity run since the original 12 bikers rode the 90 miles to Winona and threw sandbags helping in the 1965 floods! Raise money for the kid’s at Gillette Children’s Hospital, all you have to do is ride a motorcycle and buy a Benefit Flood Run Wristband for $10.00!

May May 6, 12 pm — Dirty Rotten Bikerfest

Boulder Lodge Bar & Grill, 18919 Lake George Blvd, Oak Grove, MN dirtyrottenbikerfest.com Vendors, swap meet, bike show, bike rodeo games, bands, beer, beard contest, Daisy Duke’s contest, bbq. Put on by folks who love community, music, and motorcycles.

May 6 — International Female Ride Day

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June 3, 10:00 am — 10th Annual 2 Wheels 4 Heroes

glmc.org/bonzai.php Best described to those who have never tried a road rally as an oversized treasure hunt. Ride some of the best motorcycle roads in the upper Midwest by finding a set of unique and interesting bonus locations.

American Legion Lino Lakes, 7731 Lake Drive, Lino Lakes — 2wheels4heroes.com There is no registration fee but donations are appreciated. There will be food, door prizes, and an auction. Proceeds will benefit the Minneapolis Poly Trauma Center.

June June 3, 8:00 am — 13th Annual Motorcycle Run - Chuck’s Ride

Fury Motorcycle, 740 North Concord Street, S St Paul, MN — chucksride.com Free pancake breakfast for all registered bikers. Driver: $25.00, Passenger: $15.00 (Run fee includes parade & street dance admission). Parade Leaves 5:00 p.m. Drkula’s 32 Bowl, Inver Grove Heights. Street Dance: 4:00 p.m. South St. Paul VFW, Multiple bands – Indoor and Outdoor stages.

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