Jon Munn is all ready for the Great Race in Tasmania on 12-13 of this month on the 1916 Power Plus, so are the rest of us that are “cutting-out” of the International Gypsy Tour thats starting next Monday, I cant wait.
Recently there has been a bit of talk on rider etiquette and Peter Kime just sent me a procedure that the Williamstown Club uses and I have a old one also that came from the Williamstown Club a few years back both are good and I consider we could use a version to clear-up any confusion.
At last decent rear shocks for your Scout, expensive yes but the very best and available from an old mate Le Frog, Bertrand Cadart with no “Topping -out” would be worth the expense alone, that Harley Rider obviously has no problem with “rough riding”. Meanwhile the International Gypsy Tour of Tasmania is only 9 days away and I’m looking forward to it, later in the week I will list spares you should carry in case your bike stops, starting with tubes
From Peter Kime this advert shows the four speed gearbox was stock on this model, shame they never continued
When you compare side by side photos, the similarities are clearly evident. Basically, an Octane is a low priced Scout, achieved by eliminating all the chrome. I doubt there’s any performance difference although rear suspension has no doubt been improved. Indian used a similar technique to market the Scout 60 for $17,999 Aussie $. Will be interesting to see the local price of Victory Octane as the Scout Sixty it should be at least $1,000 dearer
The Scout is one of Indians best-selling products even in Australia, I have one but the beauty of the modified versions above make me wish mine was like the “Fusion” version above, it pretty well nails the original styling and I”m sure would sell in reasonable numbers if mass-produced
Indian built upside-down Fours in the thirties and this picture is of the era hopefully the rider survived, those days it would be repaired easily these days it would take a bit longer. The girl hillclimbing on the shoulders of an intense rider is something that boggles the mind, it obviously never caught on
The ongoing costs on delivery of hardcopy newsletters is getting worse, I have reproduced with their permission the efficiency of the post and thats pretty slow
Dear BHMCC Member, As you are aware, Australia Post has altered our postal service to our detriment. It now costs $1 per letter, but even worse, it does not guarantee a delivery date sooner than six working days. This might appear ok to a modern CEO on 4.7 million a year but it doesn’t work for us. It took in excess of six days for one member to receive his Good Oil when he lived about 1/2 kilometre from the post office where it was posted, and he was not alone. A quick bit of arithmetic (which our 4.7million dollar CEO appears not able to do) reveals that the newsletter travelled to his letterbox at the frightening velocity of 0.00347 km/hour. That works out to be about 3.47 m/hour.So the club has tried to relieve this imposition by moving as many recipients of the Good Oil as possible onto email. Unfortunately this will no doubt inconvenience some members but on the brighter side it has some benefits to the Club. The Club currently has a total membership including associated organizations of 261. Of this number 197 are to receive the newsletter by email and at $1.00 each if these were posted this would add up to about $2,364 per year.Another advantage of the email system is the rapid notification of any changes within the Club at no cost.Because of the slow delivery of letters the Club cannot guarantee that the posted newsletter can be received before the General Meetings. This is because there is only two weeks between the Committee Meetings and General Meetings which leaves little time for the compilation and delivery of the newsletter, especially if there are holidays etc in between.
Thanks to Mark @ Zorro’s for this, you can see why Kings Mountain models will become very collectable and he has one up for sale 0433 106669
Gilroy Production Numbers
Special Models
Millennium Chief 252
Silver Cloud Chief 227
Centennial Chief 364
Centennial Scout 215
Neiman Marcus Chief 40
911 Spirit – w/Flag 70
T-3 52
Vintage Chief 655
Total Gilroy Production
1999 1109
2000 3616
2001 3856
2002 3278
2003 3900-4000 Estimated
Kings Mountain Production
2009 460
2010 340
2011 109
2012 * 140
2013 * 85 Total
LE Chiefs 35
FE Chiefs 25
Other 25
* Kings Mountain Designed and Polaris Built