Journal

Journal

What comes out of the shop and what comes back from the road. Newest first, dated, written the week it happened.

A loaded adventure motorcycle on a gravel fire road running through a mountain meadow on the Mid-Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route

Six days and 1,400 miles of the Mid-Atlantic BDR, with the full FTR adventure kit.

Moto-camping north and back again on fire roads and two-track, through stream crossings and up a few alt-harder climbs. One drop on Hite Hollow, no damage to the bike, and the kit came home intact.

The Cannonball Moto ADV nav tower on the Indian FTR 1200, carbon fairing and stock headlight, from the rider's side

Why the ADV nav tower is shaped the way it is.

The FTR's cockpit was designed for a flat tracker. Here is how the tower rebuilds it for a long day, using the stock headlight, and why the first one was laid up in a garage with a twenty-minute clock running.

The Indian FTR 1200 with the Cannonball Moto ADV kit on a gravel forest road in the Blue Ridge

The FTR was already an adventure bike. Indian just never finished it.

In 1914 a man rode an Indian across America on roads that mostly did not exist. In 2019 Indian built the bike that could do it again, and stopped. This is why I picked up where they left off.

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