There's something eminently attractive about a choppy, big-bore, high-horsepower V-twin. I know that sounds sus coming from me, lover of small-displacement and off-road motorcycles, a writer who's lambasted Harley-Davidson about its cruiser lineups and more. But all that doesn't mean I hate V-twin motorcycles.
Quite the contrary, they have their place. And when you have something that chops while sitting at a light and can roar off while carrying all 900 pounds of a full-dress bagger, even I get the appeal and have shivers down my spine. There's just an element of cool about them.
So when I read through Indian Motorcycles' latest debut on the new PowerPlus family of V-twin engines, adding the motors to the new Roadmaster and Chieftain, and saw 126 horsepower and 133 pound-feet of torque, I started looking for a long road trip to take these new models on ASAP.
