Pokeahotass?
I'd like to see some strong statement and/or ideally a cool concept bike from Indian to convince us the brand has ambition to be something more than just big fenders and tassles and fringes.
...but I have a bad feeling my optimism for the future of the brand is just wishful thinking and what we see is what we get. Ever since Victory started I've been hoping they'd start making bikes that can go around corners, but it's been disappointment after disappointment year after year. And now they don't even exist. So I'm probably just shifting my irrational hopes for Victory to my irrational hopes for Indian when I should just learn from history and
focus on the brand that has always been committed to making the kind of bikes I like: Buell/EBR.
I remember when the Octane was being teased and riders all over the internet were hoping for a sporty bike and then let down by the actual product. The thing they want is being made in East Troy, right? If Polaris and Harley won't give half of the American motorcycle community what they want, why don't they line up behind EBR? I guess people don't have the confidence they get with a brand that has serious backing behind them, but that backing is a double-edged sword as we saw with Harley/Buell, Hero/EBR and now Polaris/Victory. The corporate suits giveth and the corporate suits taketh away. Hopefully EBR can stick around long enough this time to eventually get the respect they've been earning all along.