Want to give your new Scout a more classic look? Replace the factory pair of 16” cast wheels with a laced steel set offered by Indian in chrome or black. These wheels install in place of your stock wheels and are of the same size: 16” x 3.5” front, 16” x 5” rear. So you can keep your tires: 130/90-16 front, 150/80-16 rear. Inner tube, valve stem & installation instructions are included with each wheel. Sold with a 3-year warranty. At Indian Motorcycle online or your Indian dealer.
Laced Wheels For The New Indian Scout
Published by November 3rd, 2015 in Customs, Editorial and Wheels.15 Responses to “Laced Wheels For The New Indian Scout”
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It’s true that the Scout looks much better this way. They should have been on the factory models.
The black wheels will look very good on a red Scout.
Can they sell us just the Hubs?
I wanna lace some 17″ sun rims and run the new Avon Trail Riders
Nice, be good to match them with a less obtrusive radiator. Like the Bonneville .
Helps draw attention away from the radiator & fender. Is that the wrong size wheel/tire? Looks like there’s enough room to pass golf ball between the tire center and fender with room to spare.
RE:
“… a less obtrusive radiator. ..”
An oxymoron……
-nicker-
Well Nicker I don’t like liquid cooled MotorCycles.
As I guess you don’t ?
But if your going to do it be at least a little bit discrete. Just finished reading an article on the new Bonnie in a magazine, HD and Indian should feel the heat cause these bikes will go and handle very well.They keep their traditional styling even with a water tank !!
Very Cool ? and 4 out of the five new models run spokes…………………..yes
Chuck U. Farley,
SMART GUY!!!
Nicker,
AMEN!!!
Greeko,
JAWOHL!!!
Woody’s,
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Patrick,
ABSOLUTELY!!!
James J.A.C.K.,
If it were not for you, I would have agreed 100%, with 100% of the comments (viz the new Bonnie does not hide her plumbing well) ; then I would have played the LOTO and made a clean sweep; then spend the rest of my days roaming the planet from pub to pub, in a perpetual drunken rage of bar-fights and hitting on the wives/girlfriends of others, but I guess you knew that New Zealand was high on that list..;-)
Could also powder coat them any color you like. The trick is finding someone who’s good at lacing wheels afterward.
The radiator is fairly big on the Scout vs the new Bonnie. I don’t think the Bonnie is completely water cooled though. Maybe just the heads and exhaust ports. Possibly some cylinder involvement too. Not sure. Haven’t seen any info or a picture on how it works yet.
Anyone else know?
Whomever comes up with a way to really downsize a cooling radiator or even make it near invisible will be a gazillionaire overnight.
Grab up a air cooled Triumph before they’re all gone and you are stuck with water cooled.
Boomer I could design it but I don’t think bikers would pay for it. Here’s my idea: make the frame tubes a double wall tube. Inner tube aluminum, outer tube steel, coolant fluid flowing between them. A couple strategically placed (hidden) vents for air to get in and exit the inside of the inner tubes and very modest ribbing on some of the outer tubes should allow for adequate heat dissipation. Water cooled with the frame itself being a functional radiator! Gonna be an expensive frame to manufacture for sure though.
Speaking of RADIATORS, wonder where Harley Davidson are going to hide theirs in the future. They can’t survive on Yesterdays Technology Tomorrow.
BobS I think some of that is already happening. There are already frames made that are also the oil tank. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to make them cooling frames but it still doesn’t address a water cooling radiator even though I get your drift.
I was thinking more along the line of an entirely new cooling fluid that transfers heat so well that a large radiator would not be necessary. Or maybe a better fluid and a better heat transferring radiator combination. I’m just a dreamer. I don’t have a clue on how to make stuff like that work or become a reality. Okay; maybe a little bit of a clue but you understand what I’m driving at.
@chop, considering the view of that Scout, H-D won’t have to bother hiding radiators ☺ I’m beginning to believe liquid cooled bikes are going to be fugly because the mfrs will do anything to reduce unit cost vs expensive, more efficient and trickier to style/install radiators.
Options for Indian/Victory owners are getting better
& more of them coming everyday !!!