2026 Indian Sport Scout Rt Could Perfect The Cruiser Formula

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For nan past fewer weeks I've been riding the Indian Sport Chief RT, nan company's full-sized air-cooled athletics bagger. It's — spoilers for nan eventual reappraisal — a very bully motorcycle, but for illustration astir things connected this world it's not perfect: It's big, it's expensive, and its air-cooled motor runs hot. Yet it seems Indian has gotten entree to my phone's Notes app, because nan institution conscionable announced a motorcycle that whitethorn good reside astir each responsibility I can find pinch nan Sport Chief: The caller Sport Scout RT. 

The Sport Scout RT takes nan Sport Chief RT and, arsenic you mightiness expect, applies its look of mods to nan Scout platform. The smaller, lighter, liquid-cooled motorcycle gets a sporty beforehand fairing, a group of locking difficult bags retired back, and a afloat overgarment of overgarment each astir — nary much black-only fenders and fairings for illustration nan non-touring Sport Scout. The full kit weighs successful astatine a claimed 568 pounds wet, a afloat 146 pounds lighter than nan Sport Chief RT. 

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The Sport Scout RT's 1250 cc water-cooled motor puts retired a claimed 105 horsepower astatine 7,250 RPM, and 82 ft-lbs of torque astatine 6,300 RPM. That's each stopped by an 11.73-inch beforehand rotor and two-piston caliper — conscionable one, nan 101 Scout is nan only exemplary successful nan scope deemed worthy of a 2nd rotor — and an identical rotor retired backmost gripped by a azygous piston. Indian claims 4.7 inches of suspension recreation up beforehand and 3 inches successful nan rear, though nan only accommodation to beryllium recovered is rear preload. In banal form, nan Sport Scout RT comes pinch a solo seat, though Indian offers a two-up accessory spot that I expect plentifulness of dealers to order. 

The Sport Scout RT, astatine slightest connected paper, could beryllium good connected its measurement to nan cleanable cruiser. We'll person to thrust 1 to cognize for certain, but there's a operation of style, practicality, and ease-of-use present that's reliable to beat. Especially astatine its value constituent — nan Sport Scout RT starts astatine $16,999, conscionable a $1,300 jump from nan Limited +Tech-trim Sport Scout from which it's derived. That's a batch of motorcycle for nan money, and I can't hold to plaything a limb complete 1 someday.