First off, thank you for the article. It made me believe, if only just for a minute, in Santa again. For years I’ve been waiting for the rule changes to GP necessary to make it more than a replica of a shitty F1 procession. This has me almost as excited as reading that 250 two strokes are back in the TT.

Excellent article. This is the exact info I wanted about next years moto gp season, rather than another Marquez/Rossi article. Keep it up Lanesplitter!

Kinda like an amp that goes to 11.

You remove a gear and don’t really affect the performance or the feel—sounds clever to me. Cost-saving, yes, but done in a way that you really don’t notice; hence, clever.

Engineering doesn’t happen in a cost and marketing vacuum. Costs and marketing are the cones around which engineers must always slalom.

Bikes always win, because a car you cannot afford to own will never be as exciting as a bike you can.

Beating HD in tech and price is pretty much like shooting fish in a.... like shooting a... like being somewhere near a barrel.

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“The look” and “performance”... May I point you to the rest of the scouts 60s compatition...Triumph America, The Honda Vt1100, Yammaha Bolt, Kawasaki Vulcan 900, Suzuki Boulevard C50...and the HD sportster 1200 (only Bc it takes HD 200 more cc to hit the same specs as the rest of the herd... And +$4000)

I know that it will stop with some effort, and I do use the rear brake, especially when my impression is that the front is lackluster. So I know it will stop, but if it is going to be a “sporty” cruiser I’d like it to do so a little better. The similar price point metric cruisers seem to do this a better, but then…

From all the articles I’ve come across it looks like they’re getting anywhere from low 40 mpg to low 50mpg... also saw an owner post that he gets 50-55mpg and has been riding it for 10k miles. For the size of the Scout 40-50 mpg doesn’t sound too bad to me. My 600cc motorcycle is in the 40s so my expectations may be…

Oh yeah, they’re total image bikes, but that’s part of the reason why I like them both. I mean, I’m hardly hipster material, being a: in my 40’s, and b: physically incapable of growing a beard, but I do like the look of both of them.
I was also considering a HD883 Sportster, but the Scout looks like a much better bike…

I don’t let him write much because I’m afraid they’ll give him my job.

Is this your first article on Lanesplitter, Lindsay?

“I’m not into cruisers. Like, not at all. I don’t get the appeal to anyone under 50 years old, and I think straight out of the box they are, at best, try-hard expensive pieces of wannabe yesteryear “technology.””

I am really excited about this bike! I test-rode the regular Scout and loved it, but its 40 mpg would be painful; hopefully this one will be a bit more efficient. The white paint and reduced chrome on the Sixty are gorgeous, too. As weird as it sounds, this could be competing with the Yamaha MT-10 for my money in a…

welcome to every brand ever

AMAZING article, and fantastic photos. I think my decision’s been made, and I’m glad I could help out the writers here in any way I could.