Jay Leno’s Again and Restoring His 1940 Indian 4 for Remedy

Again in January, the Powersports world was wishing American tv host and auto aficionado Jay Leno a swift restoration as he healed his manner by way of a “damaged collarbone, couple of damaged ribs, and two cracked kneecaps” (through Jalopnik) – and, now that the enduring man is vertical once more, he’s doing what any self-respecting bike lover would do and headed again to the storage. 

The bike underneath at the moment’s highlight is none apart from a 1940 Indian 4 – a uncommon mannequin and the identical unit that Leno was driving when he clotheslined himself in a parking zone and obtained the checklist of damaged/cracked physique bits.

Jay Leno’s Indian 4 – the identical one which he was on when he skilled his more moderen accident. Media sourced from Youtube.

Leno’s expertise simply goes to show how solidly constructed these Indian 4 sidecars had been; a crash right into a constructing, and the machine rolls away with a dent and a scuff or two. I shiver to suppose how a extra trendy unit would have fared underneath comparable situations.

“With the sidecar conserving the classic bike upright following Leno’s dismount, it finally slammed into a close-by constructing,” recounts protection from RideApart. 

“The collision crumpled the sidecar’s entrance finish, smashed the entrance fender, and mildly bent the bike’s fork… the comic plans to exchange the unit with an authentic instance.”

Jay Leno’s Indian 4 – the identical one which he was on when he skilled his more moderen accident. Media sourced from Youtube.

The Indian 4 has been a discontinued mannequin since 1942, so the bumps and scrapes the bike at the moment exhibits off in Leno’s weblog are wince-worthy; nonetheless, Leno plans on remedying the poor bike’s situ, starting with changing the forks (hydrogen embrittlement was lengthy a fear of Leno’s for this explicit bike’s entrance, in any case).

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“Like an fool, I’m gonna repair it and get again on it once more as a result of, as you recognize, as soon as a person hits 40, you may’t actually educate him something – they only hold doing the identical factor again and again,” laughs Leno in his weblog video. 

“Fortunately, I’m solely 72. Had I been an older man, this might have been a critical accident.”

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*Media sourced from Jay Leno’s weblog video on Youtube*