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Indian Motorcycle
America's first motorcycle company — and its comeback story.
Springfield, Massachusetts · est. 1901
America's first motorcycle company — and its comeback story.
Indian beat Harley to market by two years — 1901, Springfield, Massachusetts — and for the first half of the 20th century the two fought a rivalry that defined American motorcycling: board tracks, war contracts, the Wrecking Crew race team. Then Indian died in 1953, and the name spent five decades as a ghost being traded between dreamers.
Polaris resurrected it properly in 2013 with the Thunder Stroke engine — designed from scratch to look and sound like heritage while running like the 21st century. The revival stuck. Today's Chief, Scout, and Challenger lines have restored the rivalry, and Indian's FTR flat-track program wins the races its ancestors invented.
Indian riders love the story as much as the machine — America's oldest marque, back from the dead. The IMRG (Indian Motorcycle Riders Group) chapters ride hard and dress the part, and the brand's flat-track wins give the faithful fresh bragging rights every season.
Whether you're buying, dreaming, or just want to argue about motorcycles — the door's open and the coffee's on.