Dave Wallace”s Bonney in good company
All the confusing details are up on our Members Forms Area they are complex so read slowly the link is provided below, beside 6 photos and new forms pre-1949 machines are the same as in the previous requirements, this will not affect existing machines that are already on the scheme
So how big is a new 2015 Scout 150mm longer than a Triumph T140V 750 Bonneville thanks for the comparo Dave
The closest Sandy has ever got to a Scout
This is what we all wanted, but in Australia we get no apology or an official letter to know whats happening, and you wonder why we are all upset. Steve Menneto Vice President of Indian obviously feels a little for his customers & it’s appreciated, we need Peter Harvey CEO in Australia to give us similar assurances after 6 months of nothing. Member Sandy Barthelmie pictured above on a Scout in August at Sturgis, she has had a deposit paid over a year now & still waiting patiently as others have received their Scouts here already
Zundian (Zundapp in Scout) Moto-Indian (Moto-Guzzi) there must be plenty of people out there with lots of time on their hands.Meanwhile the Rally Forms are out for the Sitting Bull Rally next week-end at Inverloch
The bloke above does, so does Pete Kime, I know one or two others with their Indians that they grew old with, I have my bike (not an Indian) that I bought when I was 21 and I turned 63 yesterday, some of us had family commitments or health issues even kids education, divorce that caused the “old bike” to be sold, but you know everyone that I have ever met that got rid of their original machine have always regretted it.
This is supposed to be one of the final prototype”s before the launch next week, looking forward to see the Chief Springfield next.
“Guido”Allen”s excellent report on the supposed launch of the Scout which is becoming a debacle everyday as small handfuls of machines are being delivered to some who payed a deposit but not others. This is becoming even more ridiculous each day as Indian Australia will not release any information on how many or what colour machines are here already, this is important as they deliver bikes not to those who paid early deposits in any sequence but rather to what people ordered a particular colour! Rather than give early deposit owners an option on a colour change they are told they can cancel their existing order to change the colour but must go to the “back of the queue” what makes this even more ridiculous is they will not say what colour machines are in Australia already. Back in the old days I worked at the Triumph importer as the machines were delivered they were inspected before going into the warehouse on the end of the crates was a VIN number and the colour of each machine so you know at any time your inventory, the same thing happens today so tell us whats happening time to “Man up”
Murray Morrell has sent another 5 months of the W.Aust Newsletter to read these the link below will take you to the Section News page on our site then merely click on each cover they will download in a short time, there are 37 in all and good reading
Real men, know the firing order on four, six and V8 engines and time a magneto with a old spoke and a cigarette paper, these individuals can measure in thous’s, inches, feet, yards, furlongs and acres, these he-men know imperial gallons are different to “Yank” gallons they also refer to MPG not litres per hundred Yak, put PSI in their tyres and also can use a micrometer with one hand and shun digital verniers. These warriors are bemused by the body waxing and half shaved morons the X & Y generation with no shed or backyard to rebuild everything from a a dishwasher to a 351 Clevland, real men have hobbies that involve years of good accumulated hand tools (sometimes passed down) and strive to ultimately posess a lathe and a mill or more, these objects are revered and conversations range from cutting speeds to ceramic tip tools, Qualos,Churchill, Moore and Wright etc, the difference between CEI and BSF and what BA threads & are, of course these such people are attracted to each other for exchange of knowledge in the hope to hand down to a younger generation that don’t care! So what have these dinosaurs got left except to wait for the next meteorite to wipe them out, not much except watch old John Wayne movies and to restore that old bike in the shed, fix the oil leaks and rewire the beast and paint, clean and spend thousands of dollars on it & cold nights in winter waiting for the first warm breeze of summer to try to feel young again and remember when the good old days when “Men were Men”
Dave Wallace in the IIRA picks up his Scout this Friday in Melbourne, Dave’s was the sixth ordered. The preference seems to be on the colour not on who or when and in each sequence they were placed! I have been told there is plenty of Black ones so they are being delivered first, Indian are not saying how many or what colours are here or when they will be delivered, “Not Happy Jan” as the old Yellow Pages TV advert used to say.
Just out on Facebook two red Scouts with paint bubbles, could this be the reason for the delay in delivery to Aussie, rumour has it the production has stopped on Scout till February. Personally I’m speculating here of course, that the April -May delivery Aussie could be even later. There may be cancellations here as that puts delivery awful close to 2016 launch at Sturgis this August. In 1979 I went through Triumph at Meridan there was a huge area of the factory warehouse full of new Bonnevilles possibly 2000 or more I asked what all these new machines were waiting for, and was told these were the machines that unfortunatly missed the American summer season as they arrived to late! So they were freighted back to UK and were sold as last years models at a stonking huge loss, this can sometimes work out well as was proved when T160 Tridents were delivered, people recoiled and Norton-Villiers-Triumph sent out a message to all Triumph dealers that they would buy back all T150 Trident models for the UK market, my boss had about 35 left and made a killing. Unfortunatly in Indians case I can’t see this happening as the 2016 model unless unchanged will outsell the 2015 version as manufacturers rarely make worse models these days when they upgrade, so maybe there will be run-out models for sale this will surely guarantee a price hike the exchange rate in the $ will be quoted as a deciding factor but Indian have only two choices and the other is lower the price on the 2015 models or leave it the same and jump the price on 2016 versions, meanwhile the is another rumour the “Dark Horse” and Indian Springfield will make a comeback last ones were Kings Mountain variants, who knows what’s next the “Bomber” was one I liked