BY Dennis Chung.
Indian has discontinued the FTR (formerly known as the FTR 1200), officially closing the door on the flat track-inspired motorcycle that debuted in 2019. Rumors of the FTR’s demise had been spreading through word of mouth and across various online forums and subreddits for months, but we’ve now got official news from Indian’s parent company, Polaris Industries.
The final confirmation comes not in an official press release, or a “final edition” special, but as a small detail in a couple of footnotes and a single sentence in Polaris Q4 2024 earnings presentation: “The Company realized certain costs associated with the wind down of the FTR product line beginning in the fourth quarter of 2024.”
It’s an ignoble end to a bike that held so much promise when it was announced. A street tracker with a 1,203cc V-Twin engine housed in a trellis frame, the FTR 1200 stood out against the field of heavyweight cruisers and full-dressed tourers that typically bore the Made-in-the-USA tag.
The decision comes just as the bike that inspired it, Indian’s FTR750, is no longer eligible to compete in American Flat Track racing, ending a dominant run of eight consecutive Grand National and Manufacturer championships.
The FTR was also originally designed to be modular, allowing for a variety of uses, but the only results we saw were a couple of different trims and a slightly more off-road capable FTR Rally model.
