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Will Indian Motorcycle make a custom bagger out of their new Springfield hard bagger like sister company Victory Motorcycles did when they turned their Cross Country into the Magnum? Just a fortnight after Indian unveiled the Springfield to tackle Harley’s Road King, a wild custom bagger version has been unveiled. It’s a joint project with Azzkikr …
Excuse the “magna cum laude” pun in the headline, but we couldn’t resist now that Victory Motorcycles Australia is bringing back the loudest machine on two wheels, the Magnum X-1 with 200 watts of sound and 10 speakers. Only 300 were available last year when they were released and they quickly sold out in Australia. …
Harley-Davidson senior designer Dais Nagao believes the company should tap the youth market by building a “Darth-Vader-styled” slammed custom bagger with a big front wheel. The trend is big in the States and Victory Motorcycles has already chimed in with their Magnum bagger with a 21-inch front wheel. Dais, who was born in Tokyo and …
Victory Motorcycles Australia have turned up the volume even louder, with the loudest audio system on a production bike, a discount deal on aftermarket exhausts and “loud” colour schemes for 2015. ABS is also now available across more models and prices have been kept within $1000 of 2014 levels, despite the massive drop in the …
The 2015 Victory Magnum is an audio system on wheels, ready to roam the countryside, blasting out heavy rock. The Magnum is a slammed custom bagger version of the Victory Cross Roads, which means it has a lowered rear end, hard panniers and a large front 21-inch wheel. Custom baggers are all the rage in …
Victory has surprisingly beaten Harley to the custom bagger market with its radically slammed Victory Magnum. When I first saw the abundance of custom baggers in the show and shine at the Harley-Davidson 110th anniversary in Milwaukee last year, I suspected Harley may be watching and launch a custom bagger of their own. But they’ve …