A rapid Kawasaki W800 street tracker from South Korea, a sleek Honda CB650 from Indonesia’s Thrive Motorcycles, a wild Indian FTR750 hillclimber, and a lovely short film about a Kawasaki H2 Mach IV 750.

Indian Motorcycle FTR750 Hillclimber Hillclimb is one of the simplest and oldest race formats around, and even though it seems kind of silly, it’s massively entertaining. The AMA Pro Hillclimb Racing series has just added a twins class, so Indian Motorcycle have thrown their hat into the ring by adapting their hugely successful FTR750.

The FTR750 has been dominating flat track racing in the US since it released, and Indian are hoping to repeat that success in hillclimb. (After all, the brand does have a successful history in the sport.) So they’ve signed up 10-time AMA Pro Hillclimb champ, John Koester, to pilot their new hillclimb race bike.
John worked with his father and crew chief, Gordy, to transform the flat tracker into a hillclimber. The most obvious mods are the radically extended swing arm, and the MX-style fender, seat and tail section. But the bike’s also running different wheel sizes from stock, and a Rekluse clutch to handle the heavy load hillclimb racing is sure to inflict on it.
S&S Cycle came to the party too, outfitting the bike with one of its most custom touches; they built a two-into-one exhaust system for John, routing it with his exact riding position in mind. The bike looks as zany as the sport itself, but it has u...