Indian Motorcycle dealerships across the UK were invited to build a customized Indian Scout or Scout Sixty in just 90 days in a partnership with the UK’s national motorcycle show, “Motorcycle Live”. Ten dealers took up the opportunity to show off their creations to an audience of 113,172 visitors with 1,905 of these voting for their favorite Project Scout by visiting the Indian stand during the nine-day-long show. THUG, built by Thor Motorcycles won he public vote to be crowned Project Scout UK Champion.
There were no rules or restrictions on the bike theme, cost or build style, but entrants had to use a minimum of three genuine Indian Scout accessories from the range of more than 200 items and at least one part from the following three leading aftermarket suppliers – Custom Chrome Europe, MAG Europe or Harrison Billet. Commenting on becoming Champion, Colin Treleaven, the dealer principal at said: “We didn’t want to build a handbag, fashion statement bike, it had to be something that hadn’t been done before and it had to be a rideable bike, not a show pony. One of hardest tasks was creating a machined spline assembly that extended the front sprocket to convert the final drive to a chain. THUG goes as well as it looks and we’ll definitely be riding it on the road.”
Indian Motorcycle’s UK national sales manager Lee Frankish said: “We’re overwhelmed by the public response to Project Scout UK at Motorcycle Live. This contest has been a great opportunity to celebrate the talent in our growing dealer network, while showing the personalization potential of the Scout platform.”
THUG secured over 20% of the 1,905 votes collected during the nine days at Motorcycle LiveIn second place was Midwest Moto’s MWM-115 and in third place was Moore Speed Racing’s Beach Tracker.
Beefy
Looks cool, but that seat and seating position don’t work too well. The feet and hands forward is like doing a jacknife.
This bike is gorgeous! Looks like it would be hard to maneuver looking at the size and weight of it!
What’s with these floating solo seats lately? They look like a skin tag.
These Scouts are just unreal for building any kind of bike from ………just hard tail it and you have 2 cool bikes !!!
Why would you put the name of another deufunct manufacturer on your bike?
It’s great, except for the radiator.
gotta try to lessen the impact of the radiator with the big tyres. metal stampings, ugh. sorry polaris. round 2.
Nicely done…
-nicker-
I really like the beefy look. Nice job overall.
Very cool and a unique direction for a wonderful motorcycle with great bones.
Skinny down the front tire a little. Add some mirrors “cause you wouldn’t won’t to lose your Harley buddies in the dust”! Great looking bike!
is This the same Thor that was the main inventor for KM?