"I
t's a dance," says 2022 Mo-
toAmerica King of The Baggers
Champion Tyler O'Hara of riding
his title-winning Mission Foods/S&S
Cycle/Indian Challenger Team race
bike. "It's like the bike has a split per-
sonality. You can ride the bike hard
and shift hard and accelerate hard,
but you have to be real careful with
it. She likes to go fast, but there's a
method to getting her to go fast."
The method. More than any
motorcycle I've ever tested in my 16
years as a professional motorcycle
journalist, this Indian Challenger
race bike requires a calculated
method to making it work.
Long, tall, heavy and very fast,
your knees are jacked at an awk
-
ward angle in the riding position,
and the tank pad on O'Hara's bike
means you're locked into place, and
it makes it hard to get your weight
over the front.
There's ample room to move
fore and aft, and you feel like the
front wheel has been swallowed up
by the massive front-end and the
expansive bodywork, so it's a matter
of trust that the street-spec Dunlop
Q4 we were riding rather than the
race-spec slicks will do its job.
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Indian Motorcycle and Tyler O'Hara prevailed in an
enthralling MotoAmerica King of The Baggers series in 2022,
and we took the number-one for a quick spin at Chuckwalla
