Entries by Phil Pilgrim

Your R1 needs This

Solid tyres wear well  they say, a bit more on the Ackerman wheels is on our YouTube Area. I wonder if the wheel would distort at 300+ KPH (joking)

Indians in the snow

These scenes might look pretty cold & natural if you are living in the northern hemisphere and a dose of reality, for us in the southern hemisphere they are a […]

Holiday fun in the Hot Sun

With the Summer temperatures approaching 40C & some areas 50C  time to put the sidevalve Chief in the shed & drag the Indian Silver Arrow out for some boating fun […]

A Mixed Bag

I’m back from holidays so a few things Indian “stolen from the Facebook page, the first one, This customized Indian appeared in the February 1947  issue of Popular Science. It was […]

Dakota 5.1/4 gall Tanks

A lot of people don’t realize there were two other tank optional sizes available for late Springfield Chiefs, the largest pictured above is very noticibly wide on a machine with […]

Happy New Year to all our Friends

To all our friends wherever  they are in the world all the best for 2013 & particularly Polaris-Indian with their exciting plans for a new Indian in the coming year

Rusty Indians

I am always amazed at rusty Indians, how many have survived”Walking Wounded” you may say although the one on the right is along way off walking. I have in the […]

Buying Indian number 2

Not sure how this happened, but I am in the throes of buying Indian number 2 (I already have a Gilroy Chief Vintage). It’s a 1947 Chief. The process started […]

Weird bikes, are Weird!

The Roper Steam-bike It is a bike whose inventor was once arrested for riding it but later released when police couldn’t work out what crime he had committed. And with a record […]