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| Name | 2019 Indian FTR 1200 First Look Video |
| Video Uploader | Video From Cycle World |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 02-10-2018 15:00:07 |
| Video Discription | Cycle World takes you for a walk around the 2019 Indian FTR 1200 S. At just 489 pounds and producing 120 horsepower, the FRT 1200 and FTR 1200 S are Indian's most powerful and high performance motorcycles to date. No more rumors, hints, and foreshadowings! This is it, the Indian FTR 1200, the street-going dirt tracker and the most important model for Indian Motorcycle since it relaunched as a modern motorcycle company in 2013. The Indian Scout FTR750 dirt track racer led the way, of course, but it wasn't conceived much sooner than this machine. Design work on the FTR750 engine began in January 2016, it was announced in February, and with a tight, dedicated team that included Polaris' race-savvy Swissauto division making it happen, it was competing on US tracks in just nine months. The raucous reception that had followed Indian's initial return to dirt track suggested something more: a streetbike derivative. According to International Product Manager Ben Lindaman, the FTR 1200 engineering effort began in March 2016, hinting that it had to have been a twinkle in someone’s eye from almost the time the FTR750 was approved. But the Hooligan Scouts that Roland Sands had built in 2015 and the FTR750 certainly confirmed and reinforced that there was a lot of interest in such a machine. “We needed to make sure we delivered on the style of the FTR750,” Lindaman said. “We had a world-wide focus group—we got a lot of feedback that the styling was right.” But it isn’t just styling; with the FTR 1200, Indian is building its first truly athletic motorcycle, a motorcycle that will expand its reach beyond the cruiser and classic touring bike market and play in the streetfighter market. There are two immediate tells on that athletic focus: the riding position and the engine tune and packaging, but more on both later. One man links all the variants of Indian dirt trackers: Polaris Senior Industrial Designer Rich Christoph, who, working with Jared Mees, packaged and designed the look of the first Scout FTR750. In Polaris’ competitive industrial design process, he had to out-sketch and outcompete other designers to win that right. But once having achieved that, it was a natural for him to do the Scout FTR1200 Factory Custom, the prototype built around an Indian Scout engine that foreshadowed the production FTR 1200. Christoph describes the Custom as one of the best experiences in his design life, having almost complete design freedom; he refers to the production FTR in contrast, as “incredibly painful, but only painful because you [care.]” He explains that after doing the 750, “I knew where I wanted to go where, where I wanted to take the bike. How the proportions would evolve, how the lines would evolve. How you get hips and a chest related to the proportions of a larger engine. I knew in my mind the silhouette I wanted. I wanted a supporting line to shoot a highlight up through the tailsection because I knew there was going to be something under it.” But Christoph, who’s as passionate and tightly wound an artist as any you’ll find, had to maintain those under the pressure of packaging everything required for a streetbike into the tight confines of this stark, open style of a track bike. “There were times I was fighting for tenths of a millimeter,” he remembers in his battles with engineers to find a place to put one more component. “But in the end, it’s really good. We won; engineering and industrial design both won.” Lindaman explains that some of that win were in the choices that engineering made with the engine. While it’s clearly related to the engine in the Indian Scout, it is not a Scout engine. “It’s 80-percent new, with only 20-percent common,” Lindaman said. With the Scout, for a cruiser, visually bulking the engine up was required, with covers that added visual mass. For the FTR, it was opposite, and everyplace the Scout puffed outward, the FTR engine is sucked in. Even the crankcases are new; the Scout engine was too long for a sporting machine, with gearbox shafts all on a horizontal plane. Showing just how serious Indian is with the FTR, new crankcases were designed that restack the transmission shafts more vertically, allowing the wheelbase to be shortened down to 60 inches even with a longish swingarm. Where the Scout had multiple covers on the right side of the engine, the FTR engine has one, cast in magnesium. Rocker covers are in the light alloy as well, and the crankshaft is fully 10 pounds lighter, with much less flywheel effect than that of the Scout. All the hard work brought engine weight down to just 185 pounds—relatively heavy compared to a Ducati or KTM engine, but 40 pounds less than a Scout powerplant. 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| Category | Autos & Vehicles |
| Tags | 2019 | Indian | FTR 1200 | Street tracker | Motorcycle | First Look |
