News 312 km/h with an Indian Challenger.

Baggers are hungry for performance! For the past few years, they've been dabbling in the "King of the baggers". Spectacular races with road monsters totally unprepared for this, and seriously prepared for it. Indian wanted to go one step further, taking its Challenger beyond 300 km/h. A big tourer capable of overtaking a Hayabusa, who would have thought?

But the Suzuki is capable of doing it straight out of the dealership (on the track or in Germany). The American car that slammed that top speed is of a different persuasion. The Springfield-based manufacturer, in partnership with S&S Cycle and Mission Foods, went to Bonneville to test the speed of its King of the Baggers race bike. Piloted by Tyler O'Hara, Indian Wrecking Crew rider and two-time King of the Baggers champion, the S&S-built Indian Challenger raced through the legendary Salt Flats, celebrating history and the timeless quest for speed.

As he neared 320 km/h, O'Hara honored the legends that preceded him by setting a new AMA 2000 cm³ APS-AG record at 312.86 km/h (previous record from 1972: 272.86 km/h on a Triumph by J. Angerer).

Bonneville is sacred ground, not only for Indian Motorcycle, but for all motorsports. Our engineers and partners at S&S have spent decades chasing speed on the salt flats, and we've long considered what our Indian Challenger, the King of the Baggers, could do there. While we're proud to have broken a record, this effort was about much more than setting a land speed record: it was about honoring the legends that came before us, and pushing ourselves to go as fast as we possibly could. Gary Gray, Vice President of Product Technology, Competition and Service at Indian Motorcycle.