Prophetically, the magazine chose to color in the most complete of the sketches using red. In March 2014, five months before the Indian Scout was revealed at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Motorcyclist revealed several sketches of what it said was a forthcoming liquid-cooled Victory model. Every accolade that has been given to the Scout would have belonged instead to the Octane.Īnd arguably, that's how it was supposed to have been. Dozens of moto publications worldwide would have listed the Octane as their motorcycle of the year. In internet forums, people would have dutifully claimed that Harley was being made to look like fools by Victory. In a pre-Scout world we would have been falling over ourselves with praise. Here's an American motorcycle that costs less than a Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200, but delivers almost twice the power as well as five percent more lean angle. In a world that had yet to see the new Indian Scout, the Octane would have been met with whoops of glee. Two years ago, this wouldn't have happened. So, frankly, it is a little strange that so many people decided to fire up the hater machine when Polaris did something similar. When Triumph contorts its Tiger Explorer into eight almost identical applications we say they're giving the customer what it wants. When Yamaha uses exactly the same platform for the FZ-09, FJ-09, and XSR900 we think that's a clever use of resources.
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