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Indian Motorcycle (newest badge wearing version) question

Started by Big IV, Thu 19, Mar 2009, 17:17:37

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Big IV

Has anyone seen any pictures from inside of the new Indian motorcycle plant?

It is located here in NC, not to far from the house. The local press has talked at length about the dealership Indian of Charlotte, which is only nominally near Charlotte. I've been there and it is a nice place. I was impressed with how the bike looked. However, in the past few months it has been occuring to me that I have not seen any pics inside the plant.

I did find an article that talked about a grand-opening day where they did an open house/tour at the plant and then a fun run to the new dealership but all the pics were of the dealership.
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Scott in Ok

My wife picked me up a T-Shirt from a brand new Indian dealership in Nebraska a few weeks back. 

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Big IV

They have really good Merch with a vintage feel. Nice stuff.

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flatsixrider

I read an article about their operations and the places they were going to cut costs.  A fancy production facility was not necessary.  Stellican purchased an old paper company warehouse to us ein production of the new bikes.  No need for a fancy production facility allowed them to spend more money on R&D and apparently in the very nice looking dealerships.  I am sure assembly there looks much like assembly elsewhere. Looks exactly like every other warehouse in the photo below...



As a side note, the clown working the Indian trailer at the Cycle Show last month told me they were developing an 8 cylinder engine...  I do not buy it for a second.  I know Indian had an 8 valve inline 4 race engine......

They are nice looking bikes, but they will not get any of my $$


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Big IV

It is easy to miss the Indian plant as you're cruising by. I can attest it doesn't look like much from the street.
I had heard something similiar to 'cutting corners in overhead' to put more money where it was needed: designing a better bike.
If they brought back the tractor style inline four cylinder engine I'd be more interested than I am now that they are developing more V-twins.  I was continually annoyed at the HD riders who thought the full fender Indian look liked like a copy of HD...weren't they copying, well, Indian of old.
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¿spoom

I guess this means, "no, nobody's seen pics from inside the plant" ;D