Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’: Kiwi Coot Sets Bonneville Flats World Speed Record
“The World’s Fastest Indian” is not about Native-American Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe, but about the Indian motorcycle that set the world land speed record (for bikes with engines under 1,000 cubic centimeters) at the world’s fastest speedway—Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.
And it’s not really about that 1920 Indian motorcycle either, because by the time the bike got to Utah, it had been souped-up, retooled, jacked-up, rebuilt, and tinkered into a two-wheeled hot rod of such epic, rocket-like demeanor that it could no longer really be called an Indian.