Journal

Journal

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

The view from the seat of my FTR on a gravel two-track, with the nav tower, risers and hand guards.

Rider to bike. Bike to ground. FTR touchpoints give you more control on the trail.

The touch points that turn an FTR into a two-track bike. Bars, pegs, seat and tires. If you didn't buy the Rally, these are the four places I'd start.

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

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

An ADV nav tower for a scrambler.

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

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 engine and chassis that could do it again, and stopped. This is why I picked up where they left off.

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