Yes the Indians are smoother than one would expect, even without the torque evener. Mostly because the 60-64% balancefactor of the crank I guess.
I've ridden over 60k miles on footclutch indians, so I'm actually more used to the footclutch than the modern handclutch thing..
The '47 is not much to look at yet.. missing quite a few parts. I bought a chassis with sheetmetal on ebay(USA), but most of the sheetmetal was in such bad condition that we didn't bother to ship it to Norway. I got the engine elsewhere, and I already had quite a number of parts for it in my spare parts shelves.
The plan is to have a rolling chassis and rebuilt engine sometime next year, and then have the bike ready for the 2013 riding season. We want to ride to the International Indian rally in Italy in 2014, so I better put enough miles on the '47 chief before that. The ride to Italy is 1300 miles each way...
Here's the '47 project after I got it home last winter (my '44 in the back):
I also have a '39/'40 sportscout racer which my girlfriend just started riding (she likes this low bike better than the very tall KTM 950 Adventure.. )
And I also have some parts stored for a late '30s (or chout) chief bobber, if a reasonably priced frame/ chassis shows up..
I've ridden over 60k miles on footclutch indians, so I'm actually more used to the footclutch than the modern handclutch thing..
The '47 is not much to look at yet.. missing quite a few parts. I bought a chassis with sheetmetal on ebay(USA), but most of the sheetmetal was in such bad condition that we didn't bother to ship it to Norway. I got the engine elsewhere, and I already had quite a number of parts for it in my spare parts shelves.
The plan is to have a rolling chassis and rebuilt engine sometime next year, and then have the bike ready for the 2013 riding season. We want to ride to the International Indian rally in Italy in 2014, so I better put enough miles on the '47 chief before that. The ride to Italy is 1300 miles each way...
Here's the '47 project after I got it home last winter (my '44 in the back):
I also have a '39/'40 sportscout racer which my girlfriend just started riding (she likes this low bike better than the very tall KTM 950 Adventure..
)
And I also have some parts stored for a late '30s (or chout) chief bobber, if a reasonably priced frame/ chassis shows up..
