‘Real Deal’ Bagger For $92,000
Indian Motorcycles Offers King of the Baggers Race Bike Replica to the Public
Yes, this is a Harley Davidson forum and yes it’s all about Harley Davidson motorcycles.
However, if you are a Harley Davidson fan and happen to be following the increasingly popular King of the Bagger racing series, you might be interested in this particular Indian Challenger.
It’s for sale. For $92,000.
Still Interested? Read On, Elon
The King of the Bagger series is in its third year and pits the HD Road Glide against the Indian Challenger, head to head, wheel to wheel, nose to nose.
It’s a hoot, watching these lumbering beasts navigate road courses on MotoAmerica race tracks around the country.
HD won it in 2021, Indian was crowned the champ last year and this year HD is off to a hot start with Kyle Wyman dominating the latest weekend of races at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The Whole Enchilada
Of course, the motorcycles are souped up versions of what comes out of the factory and they are pretty strict about the rules to make it an even playing field.
One of those rules requires a team that invents a specialty part to make that part available for sale within six weeks. Indian Motorcycles said the heck with that and decided to sell the whole enchilada, the entire sum of the parts so to speak.
Meet the Indian Challenger RR.
First, the Bad News
It is not street legal. It can be used on the track, possibly the Bonneville Salt Flats and your back yard if you’re the King of Egypt or the Sultan of Sudan.
The RR is based on the motorcycle Indian racer Tyler O’Hara rode last year on his way to the King of the Bagger series championship, No. 29. The marketers also had that number in mind when they came up with the price: $92,229.
Indian will be spreading the glory of No. 29 around the globe, although it will be thin since only 29 units are being built. Aside from the U.S., the bike will be available in England, France, Germany, Australia, Japan and New Zealand.
Big Bore, Big Power
Most of the parts are from S&S, which built O’Hara’s winning Challenger. They boosted the stock Challenger’s liquid-cooled, PowerPlus 60-degree V-Twin engine displacement from 108 ci (1768Ccc) to 112ci (1834cc).
The RR motor comes with a big bore cylinder/piston kit and a custom intake system. The race bikes are fitted with S&S’ 2-into-1 exhaust.
The Challenger bagger you can find in Indian showrooms has 122 horsepower, according to Indian, and 128 ft/pounds of torque at 3,800 rpm.
Indian is tight-lipped about the torque and horsepower of the RR. Sound familiar, HD riders?
‘Fastest Tires We’ve Ever Produced’
The wheels are high-tech: 17-inch forged aluminum rims to replace the stock 19 and 16 inch wheels. The builders replaced the stock Metzelers tires with Dunlop Sportmax Q5 tires, which Dunlop says are the fastest tires it has ever produced.
The RR will put you way up in the stratosphere: Its Saddlemen seat is 8.5 inches higher than the stock 26.5 inches mere mortals straddle. The saddlebags are carbon fiber.
Advanced Brembo brakes are up front, with M4 calipers, SBS pads and 330MM discs on Alpha Racing carriers. The rear brake is an EBC disc in a Hayes caliper, which many brake fans like more than Brembo.
Remember the FTR 750?
This isn’t the first time Indian has done this sort of thing. In 2017, the company made its FTR 750 flat-track race bike available to the public for $50,000.
That bike was mainly intended for use on the track, as is the Challenger RR, though there are certainly no requirements to race it.
“This bike is the real deal,” Indian Vice President Gary Gray said in a press release. “Much like when we released the venerable FTR 750, the Challenger RR is a true race bike and is not street legal. Put in the right hands, it will reach the podium in Moto America’s Mission King of the Baggers race series.”
Photos: Indian Motorcycles
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