Ended up with #932.  Pick it up Tuesday at noon.  Whew.....

Need to hook up with Double Vision and get a pic of the sequential bikes side by side!!

Wheels up for Charlotte.  Having to trailer it back due to scheduling issues with co-riders.  Will take it for it's first shakedown on Wednesday.

Double Vision has a two week head start on me so he'd be the best bet for a 500 mile review. 

Only issues I've read about so far involve Check Engine lights/fault codes.  The Indian hates low octane gas and will let you know it.  Also get a light when you use the "friction zone" involving the clutch and brake at the same time.  Gives priority to the brakes and sends a warning.  Goes away once you get going again.

Won't be truly giddy until the bike is safely off the trailer and in the driveway. 

Got the bike home safely last night.  All is well in the world. 

Cannot say enought good things about Mark Moses and his crew.  Attention to detail is unbelievable.  I had 12:00 appointment with Rose Mary (finance guru) and was walking out of her office at 12:10, done.  She was on the phone earlier that morning with my insurance company getting a valid quote sorted out because the VIN's on these new Indians are not in the system yet.  The insurance companies think it is either a Kings Mountain bike ($40,000) or custom made. 

Mark is having custom embroidered $500 jackets made for his pre-order customers.  I thought the jackets were a Polaris deal but it turns out they are a Charlotte deal.  Wow.  My Little Rock buddy is pretty jealous.

I didn't notice it until I went back out this morning and was really going over the bike but they even removed the DOT sticker on the tank!!  Are you kidding me!?  Not a big deal to the average person but how many of us have sweated over taking that thing off of a virgin paint job with soft clearcoat.  Wife and son gave me a weird look when I got so excited about that stupid sticker being gone.  Some things you just can't explain.

My review of the bike is insignificant.  It's going to be nice.  It's going to get attention.  It's going to have issues.  It's all good.  I have to learn how to take care of leather and white-walls now. 

The indianmotorcyclecommunity.com forum will be the go-to place for info on these bikes.  20 of the members of that forum took part in the focus groups that Polaris put together for this bike.  The forum just came online in March so it very much has a 2007 Vision-Riders.com vibe to it.  Every day is something new.  Mostly a bunch of guys who just want to make Indian better. 

Double Vision is over there as K2V2 and has made several comments about how reliable these bikes will be from Polaris, since he is a Vision owner.  The Gilroy owners are totally hilarious when it comes to the issue of reliability.  They are afraid that these new Indians will give them nothing to talk about on the forum.  We listen for sounds like valve/lifter noises.  They listen for sounds like stuff falling off.  Great bunch of guys over there.  They eat trolls for lunch.

I get the feeling from the Indian community that life as they know it is over.  Their little fraternity has been blown wide open.

Big annual Indian rally in Branson, MO every year (only 5 hours away) so that will be a new concept for me also (compared to 1,000 trip to Spirit Lake).

Thanks for all the well wishes guys! 

Double Vision - Branson 2014....book it!

Varyder - the Indian community isn't over, just their nice little quiet life they've had until now.

Steve - Charlotte pre-sold 60 and have pumped about half of them out the door.  The truck was there unloading 9 more when we pulled up.  It was heading for Florida next.  Charlotte hired another mechanic (previously a Certified H-D mechanic since 1985).  The mechanics there have grey hair and look like they could wrench anything on the planet.  They are humpin big time.

Po - My days off are Tues/Wed but I don't go in until 2:00 on Thurs/Fri.  Also get off at 2:30 on Mondays.  Let me know what works.

Took it for a quick spin tonight.  First onramp - 90 mph.  Set the cruise at 70 and took my hands off the bars, dead straight.  Found a local road with some sweepers and it tracks great.  No doubt that two similar riders on a stock Vision and Chief would run something like the Dragon in tandem.  The Vision might pull away if given a long stretch but it would have to be after 4500 RPM. 

The low beams with the running lights are great, very wide.  Flip the high beams on and the running lights shut off (per DOT rules) and the single bulb high beam is noticeably weaker than the Vision duals.  Bulbs make me nervous because they are very white Sylvanias.  If they are Silver Stars they will burn out in a couple of months.  Hope not.  Clearwater LED's definitely in the future.

Front brake is a one finger affair around town.  Sportbike sensitive without the fear of the rear tire coming off the ground.  Two fingers was overkill for me all day.

I can see over the windshield so that will be fine for me.  On a sunny day, with the sun behind you, the chrome dash really reflects on the windshield.  Price to pay for bling.

I FORGOT HOW TO DRESS!  Vision riding means dress for the actual temp, no wind chill.  I went out dressed for 50 degrees tonight and 70 mph is worth about 20 degrees of wind chill factor.  I was not dressed for 30! 

Rock on Vision Riders!