GAME CHANGER
“IN FASTER TURNS, THE FTR FEELS VERY REASSURING, JUST TOTALLY PLANTED”
EVERY so often a manufacturer conceives a new model that’s mostly unlike anything anyone did previously — and in doing so invents a new kind of motorcycle. Think BMW with its dual-purpose GS models, Ducati with the Monster, or Yamaha with the original Tenéré, all of them so immediately and hugely successful that they ended up being virtual prototypes for a new generic type of bike. Now, with its new FTR 1200 Street Tracker, Indian may well have joined that illustrious club.
The FTR 1200 was developed alongside the Indian FTR 750 race bike that has dominated American Flat Track (AFT) racing for the past few years. So no surprise the 1200 captures the style and stance of the 750 so perfectly. Born on the dirt, built for the street, Indian says.
After riding a prototype eight months earlier, the opportunity
