General Rating
After all the fervor about Polaris’ relaunch of Indian, the Octane is sister-brand Victory’s first all-new bicycle in more than a couple of years. Inconvenience is, rather than being the all-new ‘Advanced American Muscle’ Victory built up it up to be it’s really a rebadged Indian Scout with an (exceptionally) slight execution change. On the off chance that they’d removed it further from the Scout and given it some genuine oomph (say, a 20-30bhp help rather than the 4bhp additional it has) it may have been an alternate story. The way things are, the Octane is a less expensive, somewhat punchier Scout with a Victory identification when it could and maybe ought to have been quite a lot more…
Ride Quality and Brakes
The Octane’s thrown aluminum/tubular steel blend support is likewise to the same formula as the Scout’s, directly down to the twin 41mm adjustable forks, twin circles and twin stun raise however the wheels are new, developing from the twin 16-inchers of the Scout to a 18/17-inch front/back mix. Maybe obviously, then, the Octane is particularly similar to the Scout to ride – however with a touch more state of mind. Taking care of is not too bad for a cruiser and never truly turns into a modest bunch; brakes are satisfactory and its genuine play area ought to impact around town, messing about between activity lights and by and large playing the (somewhat section level) dragster buddy. No long-separate cruiser, however, it’s excessively uncomfortable and Victory has better bicycles for that.
Motor
The motor design is fundamentally the same as its sister bicycle, the Indian Scout, however with a drag up from 99 to 101mm to take limit from 1133cc to, sufficiently 1179.3cc to raise crest energy to 104bhp.
It’s been said before however that 60º, fluid cooled V-twin is a peach: conveniently getting from as meager as 2500rpm preceding working in a straight mold and shooting from five thou and up. Therefore, voyaging is easy and satisfying (a 70mph cruising speed comes up at only 4000rpm in 6th). That said the Octane is a million miles far from genuinely savage, ground shaking dragsters, for example, the VMax or Diavel.
Construct Quality and Reliability
Amazingly, it has made a quite careful showing with regards to of the change and the outcome is adequately unique in relation to the Scout – there’s much more to it than simply distinctive identifications, for instance. Quality’s not terrible, either and, while it’s most likely still too soon to announce with any conviction, any misgivings about dependability ought to be made up for by Victory’s standard five-year guarantee – the best in the business.
Protection, running expenses and esteem
Generally the Octane’s a better than average bicycle, an appreciated expansion to Victory’s reach and a fascinating other option to a Scout. Bear in mind, when the Octane went on special in the UK, it was not simply more effective than the Indian whereupon it’s based, also being ostensibly more significant due generally to its bigger wheels, it was less expensive, as well. It’s simply not (exactly) the all-new American dragster Victory would have us accept.
Hardware
Triumph has gone to broad lengths to give the new bicycle its own look. These include: restyled barrels/head; new nose cowling; new side boards; new bigger, however less flared bumpers front and back to coordinate the greater wheels; repositioned back stuns; all chrome supplanted by dark and Victory badging all through. All things considered, hardware is the same and still genuinely meager. There’s a solitary, multi-capacity ‘clock’, ABS and… that is about it. No extravagant gadgets or common luxuries and, in this way, very little by method for discretionary embellishments, either.
