2016 Indian Scout Sixty road test review

You know what’s missing from this motorcycle? An old-school girder fork up front and a hard tail. Do that and you can take this Scout all the way back to the 1940s, and nobody would look at you twice. That’s until they notice the liquid-cooling, cast aluminium frame et cetera. But as far as modern-yet-truly-retro motorcycles go, the Scout is right on point.

So what, then, is the purpose of the Scout Sixty? The idea really was to take the game right to Indian’s main rival Harley-Davidson. The Sportster line, which is the Scout’s...