CYCLE NEWS CRUISER BUYERS GUIDE
rider's right leg cooking to a medium rare at the traffic lights.
It's got nothing to do with emission and everything to do with
heat—like how cars have a similar feature—and works by killing
the ignition on the rear cylinder once the ambient temperature
reaches 59° F or higher and the machine is at operating tem-
perature and at a standstill.
When it's active, you'll get a little light on top of the display,
and if you've got a real sensitive butt you'll notice a slight
shudder as the ignition kicks back in but for the most part it's
very unobtrusive.
Inside the cockpit, you still get that whopping dashboard
with the built-in Indian Ride Command/GPS unit as standard
with the analog speedo and tacho flanking either side, but the
stereo system has come in for a proper workover. The audio
team separated the tweeters from the mid-range speakers for
better clarity, and a new dynamic equalizer now adjusts specific
frequencies at different speeds to ensure optimum audio
performance.
The base stereo is a 100-watt unit, but if you really want to let
everyone know just how shit your taste in music is, you can go
the Indian accessory catalog and jam in the Powerband Audio
setup, giving you up to 50 percent more volume than stock. In
the Powerband setup, each speaker has its own amp, boosting
The designers gave
the Dark Horse a
new fairing for a
slimmer look.
POWER TO THE
PEOPLE
New bags are the same capacity as be-
fore, they just look slightly sharper.
