Indian Clock & stand
Indian Clock & Stand ready for your mantlepiece either 1946/52 or 1948 types $1550.00 and if you need Triumph brake parts for your 1970 Bonneville-Trident $250.00
In your next Smoke Signals Magazine there will be an article on improving braking for 1940-52 Springfield Chief’s one thing that consistently crops up on modifications or even standard parts are variations on bike to bike, note the 1947 Chief of Chris Horner’s & my own 1948 Vindian how the valance on each guard (fender) is positioned, on the 1947 the Twin Leading brake conversion involved drilling a 1.1/2 hole to let the rear arm through. The fender valance varies through the sheet metal from 4-6mm (without body filler) which can “cock” the plate slighty and cause a scraping noise which happens on standard plates this involves a washer on the locating bolt sometimes to keep it all lined up
Clamp & Bolt on Passenger Seat Pillion Kit
Fitment: Clamps onto 50’s style Pressed Aluminium racks in particular Indian Chiefs/Scouts also Harley’s with similar style racks.
Seat supplied please specifiy Tan or Black.
shaped profile under seat for extra strength/Fits Indian Chief/Scout pressed alloy racks. (clamps on)/Fits Pre1945 Indian Chief & Four Cast Steel Racks (bolts on)
Fits (to be announced ) new Cast Alloy rack for Post 1945 Chiefs. (bolts on)
One peice precision cut Steel profile
Polished Chrome seat springs for better suspension.
Flip up Pillion Footrests and brackets Supplied. (fit under rear crashbar p clips)
Removeable Confidence Handle supplied
PRICE $699.00 includes seat Plus delivery $19.95 Australia wide
Price without seat $599.00 plus freight
Australian Made.
LED Tail lamp light board available in 6 or 12v
Easily adapts to most vintage motorcycles. In particular the 6V
Less Current draw = more reliable
Brighter light = more safety
Less susceptible to vibration. = less down time
In stock in Australia
Price $89.95 plus delivery $9.95
Ring Mark 0433 106 669
Hot off the Press a new Indian Scout will be announced on 12-17 August 2014 many people have been waiting for a smaller Indian well it’s happening, maybe the Four will be next
Superhero’s are always in your face, but Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne,and Wally West (Superman,Batman,Flash) are not, so everyone knows the World’s Fastest Indian as it is now, but it was a meek and mild Scout that was a family outfit before all this John Munro (Burts Son) has sent a lovely photo of the machine in pre-superhero guise with his two elder sisters & his mother on board of it long before when it was the “World’s Slowest Indian”
A couple of years (1978) Mike Hailwood won the I.O.M on the Sports Motorcycles Ducati built by Steve Wynn this was dismantled and over the years at least four are known to exist, a similar thing happened when Hailwood made his comeback in Australia at Winton Raceway in 1976 I was a this meeting & the Manx he rode was Charlie Edwards machine a “double knocker” 500cc. After Hailwood was tragically killed in a Motorway accident in UK the Harwell Club decided to run a Memorial Race, they could have feilded a race with all the so-called claimants that reckoned they had Hailwood”s Manx these ranged from post war plunger rear frame versions up! So we come to Vincent’s out of the 73 Series A pre-war Twins that were built 82 are going, out of the handfull of Black Lightnings built (under 20) around 90 are still going strong the 56 Thruxton Bonneville’s that were built of which one made it to Australia around 200 have still made a presence worldwide, undoubtably 750SS “Green Frame” Ducati’s of which under 200 were made are still all going, we won’t go on now but we have Burt Munroe’s Fastest Indian there is one at Hammer Hardware Invercargill N.Z then there is this other one on the website below plus the ones that were built for the movie, seems to me these days even the Mona Lisa is’nt safe
http://www.barnfinds.com/worlds-fastest-indian/#WlgHl7GQ4fwiWFbW.01
Back in the good old days going somewhere in your car with a motorcycle was as easy as removing your spare wheel, then dropping the rear wheel into the cavity and a couple of ropes and you were off. Running boards are making a comeback on SUV’s but are quite inferior to the days of yore but it would be hard to imagine a new Toyota Landfill with a 2014 Indian strapped on board
Happy New Year, and I hope the resolutions you decided on last week are on track, these are many and varied at this time of year from doing work on the Indian, to loosing a few pounds both of these were on my list last year & strangely enough are still there. The photo above of the woman working on the ACE that I “lifted” from the Indian Club in Prague should give you inspiration as I hate working on motorcycles on the side of the road as most of us do in an emergency. We have plenty on this year with the calendar “chock-a-block” with Rallies, Runs, & Social Events, the first is The Midnight Express Run on 18-19 then the Association Monthly Meeting on 28th hastily followed by the Sunday run on 2nd Feb which gets us up the The Lakes & Craters on 15-16th and the following weekend is the 2nd Gypsy Tour Follow the Murray starting 22nd and finishing in March! This is very heavy going so time to get the spanner”s blazing.
Noel Thornby was one of the first to express interest in a new Indian when they were announced & eagerly placed his deposit down, now most of you will know Noel is a Springfield Indian enthusiast as well with a 1945 Chief & a 741 Scout as well, he was open minded in his selection and realizes this is an ongoing part of Indian’s History.
There is unfortunately groups of people who exist that wont agree with Noel that this is an Indian and would not buy a later model because of the bigotry and would buy another inferior American brand because of what their mate would say or even think, I feel sorry for these people they always say “I’m a individual” but all dress the same and ride in groups on motorcycles that are accepted by their peers more like “I’m a D**khead”
To show the uniformity of our Association a picture of a 1947 Roadmaster, 2003 Chief Vintage, 2014 Chief Vintage, all Indians from different era’s and as we are un-biased all owners of any of these versions are welcome in our Club or for that matter anybody who even likes these versions are welcome to join, “ A Indian is a Indian, end of story”