{"id":261,"date":"2017-08-31T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/?p=261"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:57:20","slug":"blackbird-741-indianscout-kiwi-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/blackbird-741-indianscout-kiwi-racer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird &#8211; 741 Indian Scout Kiwi Racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong>his is <strong>Rex Hosking&#8217;s<\/strong> of New Zealand, 7<strong>41 Indian scout<\/strong> named BlackBird. Indian made two &#8220;army&#8221; bikes for WWII, the 741 was a detuned Scout at 30.5cid (500cc) and the 841 a radical departure with a turned V twin, foot shift, hand clutch and shaft drive. There are a large number of 741 bikes around and have become popular as a little tweaking can bring them to life&#8230;for both the 841 and 741 where known to be slow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Y<\/strong>ou can tell he used Honda forks and most likely Japanese rear and front hubs and brakes.\u00a0It has sports scout 45cid flywheels installed that increase the stroke of the engine creating <strong>680cc<\/strong> . The frame and tanks are clearly all Indian and the Fiat distributor and Japanese alternator both look right at home too.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if I would like left hand throttle and right hand shift, but it looks good for an old Indian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-262 \" title=\"blackbird\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackbird.jpg\" alt=\"Blackbird - 741 Indian Scout\" width=\"619\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackbird.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackbird-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackbird-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackbird-507x380.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackbird &#8211; 741 Indian Scout &#8211; Built by Rex Hosking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Rex Hosking&#8217;s of New Zealand, 741 Indian scout named BlackBird. Indian made two &#8220;army&#8221; bikes for WWII, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycle","tag-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}