Australia has been our go-to place whenever we want to ride… and just ride. The country has got everything a motorcyclist could as for. Twisties… you got it. Some dirt-ey stuff… you got it. Straight roads… you got it.
Talking about the twisties, Putty Road is one of the most famous ones in Australia. It is a hot spot for the bikers of the country and you can see a lot many running up and down the road enjoying their motorcycles and the winding corners.
Stretched between the Wollemi and the Blue Mountains National park, the road offers ample photo opportunities and a fine testing ground for motorcycles. Especially the ones of the calibre that the FTR 1200 possesses.
The FTR 1200 is a fantastic handler. And the folks at Indian Motorcycle have so much faith in its prowess, that when they launched it, they invited the journalists to ride on the snake-y roads of Santa Monica. And right after a few corners, we had as much faith in the FTR 1200 as those guys… if not more!
When the relative heft of the motorcycle and its type are taken into consideration, one does not expect the motorcycle to handle so well. It t just goes around bends like it was nothing. So when we took it up the ‘Putty’, we tried to dig in a little more about its secret.
This story is from the December - January 2020 edition of xBhp.
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