
Roadmaster · Indian's flagship dresser
2015 was the Roadmaster's revival year — Indian's newly resurrected flagship, planted directly across the street from Harley's Ultra Limited with a bigger engine and a chip on its shoulder a century in the making.
Our take: Springfield's answer to the Ultra. Thunder Stroke torque and armchair comfort for two, all day.
A 2015 Roadmaster has been retired at least once. We imagine a first owner who bought it for The Big Trip — planned for three years, executed once, photographed extensively — and then rode it to breakfast on Sundays, which is its own kind of touring. The heated seats have known December. The trunk has carried exactly one anniversary gift home in the rain, heroically.
A LOVINGLY IMAGINED HISTORY · THE MILES ARE REAL, THE ROMANCE IS OURS
The Roadmaster buyer reads history and rides it. They like telling people Indian is older than Harley, they tour two-up with someone they've known thirty years, and they tip well at small-town diners. Comfort isn't a compromise to them; it's the achievement.
At launch the moto press called the revived Roadmaster the most complete first effort in memory — Thunder Stroke torque, limousine comfort, and fit-and-finish that embarrassed bikes with decades of head start. Its weight was the standing joke; its ride was the standing ovation.
America's first motorcycle company — two years older than Harley — reborn under Polaris in 2013 with the Thunder Stroke engine. Indian's revival gave American touring its swagger back, and the Roadmaster is its flagship statement.
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